UK Government To Share Restricted Files In the Cloud

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 21, 2011 @03:28AM from the what-could-go-wrong? dept.

twoheadedboy writes "The UK Government wants to use the cloud to share restricted files. Given the concerns around cloud and security, this will worry some. Nevertheless, a deal between the services arm of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and SaaS provider Huddle has been penned. The SaaS service will run in the FCO's internal cloud, known as the Government Secure Application Environment (GSAE). This will allow civil servants, diplomats and other Government staff to share documents up to the secrecy level IL3, or Restricted."

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CLOUD CLOUD CLOUD by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-21 03:38 · Score: 5, Insightful

Please stop using that word. It makes you sound technologically illiterate.
You mean via a network, or on the internet, or something similar. "The cloud" is a stupid buzzword that needs to die RIGHT NOW.