G-Cloud rep: We'll mop up data breach flood with red tape The government is speaking out about “myths and confusion” surrounding its plans for security accreditation on G-Cloud. A civil servant working on No 10’s big IT catalogue has re-assured Whitehall types that G-Cloud accreditation is most certainly not an unnecessary piece of bureaucracy. She has also warned, however, that just …
I work for a CESG Listed Advisor Scheme (CLAS) Security Consultancy and we've seen a raft of people come to us for assistance with this. It's not easy and straighfroward because security is complex by its very nature.
It concerns me that people just don't understand the risks from poor information security and governance. G-Cloud encouraged SME's and made it easier than other frameworks to get onto but then stung them with this, I think they could have been far more transparent at the outset about the costs and resource requriements for accreditation.
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