Homeland Security is vetting cloud providers to host the public websites of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service. DHS CIO Richard Spires believes public cloud vendors are on a path to handle more sensitive government information. The federal CIO also believes cloud security issues have been used to discourage cloud adoption. Kundra: Government contracts are being won by vendors who understand procurement process “better than the technology they are deploying” The government has been bringing in venture-backed firms before government CIOs, Kundra said.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2129199/cloud-security-fears-exaggerated–says-federal-cio.html