Australia’s cyber spy agency has shuttered the government’s cloud services certification program (CSCP) to remove bottlenecks and confusion around the accreditation of cloud services.
In a move that promises to unlock the country’s cloud market, the Australian Signals Directorate and Digital Transformation Agency on Monday revealed the program would cease.
It follows the findings of an independent review of the program and the information security registered assessors program (IRAP) commissioned by the ASD last July.
The review, which considered the perspectives of industry and government, recommended closing the CCSP and creating “new co-designed cloud security guidelines with industry”.
“In line with these recommendations, ASD will today cease the CSCP, ASD will no longer be the certification authority and will not be progressing certification activities,” the agencies said in a statement.
“This includes re-certification activities.”
The change will mean certified cloud services, both at the protected and unclassified DLM levels, will loose their cyber security status from July 2020.
“All ASD certifications and re-certification…
