Protecting a Nation in the Cloud

A major government sub-agency needed a database security tool that spanned both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, the two commercial cloud providers it selected. To raise the stakes even higher, the sub-agency handled not just run-of-the-mill data, but the personally identifiable information of American citizens, including social security and driver’s license numbers. As such, it required assurance that its cloud operations would meet or exceed the stringent regulatory standards to which its physical servers had previously been held.