[LINK] itNews: 'AGIMO defends Government cloud take-up'

[Roger Clarke]

>On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 08:17:29AM +1000, Roger Clarke wrote:
>>  [The article below provides a useful review of the caution with
>>  which Clth government agencies are approaching cloud technologies.

At 9:03 +1000 23/8/12, Ben Elliston wrote:
>Thanks for this article, Roger.  Something that this has got me
>thinking about is data disposal.  We have already had situations in
>the past where state governments have disposed of computer systems
>with privacy-sensitive data on them.
>How do people propose that data will be adequately destroyed in the
>cloud?  How do you know, really, where your cloud service provider is
>replicating your data to?  How can you ever hope to rein it all back
>in?

I've published evaluation checklists for cloud computing, here:
-   Benefits Checklist
     http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/CCEF.html#RTFToC10
-   Disbenefits and Risks Checklist
     http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/CCEF.html#RTFToC15

And you've just poked a hole in them, because I don't actually have 
'assured deletion of all copies of data' as a heading anywhere.  (I 
was so busy focussing on 'assured *access*' that I missed the other 
end of the data-cycle!).

I'll need to revise the second checklist, and put it in under:
-   Data Security;  and/or
-   Compliance

-- 
Roger Clarke                                 http://www.rogerclarke.com/

Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd      78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA
                    Tel: +61 2 6288 1472, and 6288 6916
mailto:Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au                http://www.xamax.com.au/

Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law               University of NSW
Visiting Professor in Computer Science    Australian National University