 Under the government's newly released cloud computing strategy, Canadians do not allow the most sensitive data kept about its citizens to cross over its borders. Only the data which is regarded unclassified by the government can cross the border and be kept in cloud computing servers in other countries. As it leaves the borders the data must be kept as encrypted according to the new strategy. Canadian government will keep "sovereign control over its data" on social insurance numbers and top secret government data by keeping it on cloud servers in the country. By this time next year, Shared Services Canada is expected to have bought more cloud space capable of handling more sensitive data, but not information deemed secret or top secret. The strategy was drawn as a result of consultations that began more than two years ago and included more than 60 industry organizations. The federal government has for years looked at expanding its use of cloud computing as part of an overall push to cut down on the money it spends on its data centres and computer systems.
Rather than paying to build digital infrastructure like servers cloud computing lets governments, businesses and individuals rent digital space on systems owned by providers like Microsoft, Google and Amazon, among others.
The government will only pay for the cloud computing that it needs, the document says.
The strategy leaves it up to departments to decide what mix of cloud computing they use. That will allow federal departments and agencies to choose what the document calls a "right cloud strategy" that includes use of secure public clouds that are available to the public and private sector, private clouds that would be available only to the federal government, and the government's existing systems.
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