UK Government To Share Restricted Files In the Cloud

twoheadedboy writes "The UK Government wants to use the cloud to share restricted files. Given the concerns around cloud and security, this will worry some. Nevertheless, a deal between the services arm of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and SaaS provider Huddle has been penned. The SaaS service will run in the FCO's internal cloud, known as the Government Secure Application Environment (GSAE). This will allow civil servants, diplomats and other Government staff to share documents up to the secrecy level IL3, or Restricted."

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[zget]

Summary says it will be ran on FCO's internal servers, and Huddle is providing the software and know-how. If you think about it, I think it's a good thing. Government jobs are given out pretty much on what schools you went to, or worse, who you know. They never really look or test for the actual knowledge. Here we have a provider with actual experience with various big companies and know-how to secure the network. I would trust them more than some random persons who got their job because their father works in different positions for government.

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[jojoba_oil]

Right. So the government will share internal documents on internal servers. Aside from the buzz and the fud associated with the word "cloud", what is the news in this story?

Huddle got a gov't contract? Good for them.