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