Right now the Canadian government is working on creating a strategy for cloud adoption within various government agencies.

There are a lot of great benefits to centralizing and updating public services, but the minute you move to a distributed type of environment, there are suddenly many more security factors that must be taken into account.

Several government agencies around the world have already started the move to transitioning to new models that allow for greater access to information, better portals for the public to access information all while bringing better internal IT structure with more flexible infrastructure, streamlined applications and cost savings. But several factors that are affected with this type of restructuring is how outlying services are affected and must be kept in mind with the shift in any strategy. Let me explain. Read more here…