How Government Agencies Meet Security and Compliance Requirements with the Cloud Whitepaper

IDC believes that becoming cloud enabled is a foundational component for U.S. federal government agencies to achieve meaningful digital innovation and that cloud adoption strategies address short-term and long-term agency mission needs, technology readiness, and staff skills. As more agencies migrate applications and workloads to the cloud, including their most sensitive and heavily regulated data and workloads, a key consideration in their journey is the need to meet federal compliance and security mandates, including forethought that seeks to address any new legislation that may be passed. Managing security and compliance requirements, especially as laws and reporting requirements evolve, can become complex, tedious, and expensive.