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Your agency has just committed to a cloud transition. Makes sense. This year more government organizations are turning to the cloud to more efficiently operate, better serve the public, and reduce operating costs. But what happens next?

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a federal laboratory within the U.S. Department of Commerce that works to refine and more precisely define measurements, metrics, technologies, and standards. From two hubs in Gaithersburg, MD, and Boulder, CO, NIST employs over 3,400 scientists, engineers, and technicians to work alongside thousands of associates from industry and academia to research, test, and recommend improvements to measurements and technologies.

The threat could be external or internal, a malicious hacker or a busted water pipe. Your core business functions could make you a prime target for sabotage, or your office could sit squarely on a fault line. All organizations face threats. What separates the prepared from the unprepared? An IT disaster recovery plan.

These days, business is done in the cloud. But the more that we operate, launch applications, access information, and collaborate in the cloud, the more that we potentially expose ourselves and our companies to risk. Cloud security is the answer to these threats, but a lot is not known (or is widely misunderstood) about cloud security. From data privacy to reputational damage, we’ve compiled a few of the things everyone needs to know about cloud security.

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There is an urgent need to strengthen the trustworthiness and resilience of the information systems, component products, and services that we depend on in every critical infrastructure sector and which support the economic and national security interests of the United States.