Tag: Hosting Certification Framework

DTA loses data sovereignty scheme duties

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Responsibility for the federal government’s troubled data sovereignty scheme has been stripped from the Digital Transformation Agency in a shakeup prompted by the creation of Australia’s new cybersecurity office....

DTA outsources hosting certification assessments as backlog grows

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Assessments of hosting service providers against the Hosting Certification Framework (HCF) have been partially outsourced by the Digital Transformation Agency, as the certification backlog for the data sovereignty scheme...

Cloud giants certified while others wait on sovereignty scheme

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Google and IBM have been cleared by the Digital Transformation Agency as approved cloud service suppliers under Australia’s data sovereignty scheme while dozens of other companies wait on authorisation....

Microsoft added to govt data sovereignty scheme

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Microsoft has been quietly added to the federal government’s list of certified cloud providers more than a month after its rivals, giving it clearance to process sensitive and whole-of-government...

Microsoft’s whole of government deal passes $800m

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Microsoft’s whole-of-government sourcing deal has swelled to more than $800 million, including more than doubling in the last two months, despite the US giant not yet receiving the newest...

A cloud hangs over Amazon data certification

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The world’s biggest cloud company Amazon Web Services has been certified under the federal government’s data sovereignty scheme despite its links to a controversial Chinese-owned data centre and the...

Certified Strategic data centres double

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Three more vendors have received the highest certification required to hold sensitive government data, joining the three which have been certified since the scheme came in to force in...