Trust in cloud service providers no different than for other outsourced IT

As the private sector embraces outsourced IT services and the federal government apparently eager to follow suit, it should come as no surprise that both proponents and skeptics of IT service outsourcing (now under the new…

Need a little more verify to go with that trust

One notable aspect of the widely-reported launch of a Security Metrics Taskforce charged with coming up with new, outcome-based standards for measuring the effectiveness of federal agency information security efforts is a statement written by federal…

Towards a more objective basis for establishing trust in information exchange

The emphasis on electronic information exchange among public sector agencies and private sector organizations has increased attention on both technical and non-technical barriers to sharing data among different organizational entities. In many ways, efforts to overcome…

FISMA provides insufficient foundation for trust

There seems to be an inordinate amount of attention on FISMA in the ongoing debate about how to establish a sufficient trust framework among public and private sector participants in health information exchange. Federal government security…