Monday, 15 March 2021, 3:21 pm | Macquarie Telecom Group Macquarie Telecom Group (ASX: MAQ), has welcomed publication, by the Digital Transformation
Agency, of the Whole of Government Hosting Strategy (Hosting Certification Framework),
championed by Minister for Government Services, Stuart Robert. img src https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2103/069596d41ad36e8f45ff.jpeg . More
Macquarie’s Government
division head Aidan Tudehope
The Hosting Certification
Framework will give government and industry clarity when
considering data management decisions with respect to the
Federal Government’s criteria for data sovereignty,
privacy, supply chain risk and cyber security.
“The
events of the past 13 months have shown us the importance of
Australia’s critical sovereign data, and the
infrastructure and hosting arrangements that store, protect
and manage data,” said Aidan Tudehope, Managing Director,
Macquarie Government.
“The DTA’s Hosting
Certification Framework creates a new expectation for
managed service providers and other cloud providers to
onshore their data, regardless of any intermediaries, and
The Digital Transformation Agency has unveiled a regime for certifying data centres and managed services providers that handle federal government data.
The agency will assess providers on two certification levels, Certified Assured Hosting Provider and Certified Strategic Hosting Provider.
Certified Assured Hosting Provider arrangements safeguard against the risks of change of ownership or control through financial penalties or incentives, aimed at minimising transition costs borne by the Commonwealth should a data centre provider alter their profile.
Certified Strategic Hosting Provider, previously named Certified Sovereign Data Centre, represents the highest level of assurance and is only available to providers that allow the government to specify ownership and control conditions.