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Australian Cyber Security Centre

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Guidance

Cloud Assessment and Authorisation

Direct link: www.cyber.gov.au/resources-business-and-government/maintaining-devices-and-systems/cloud-security-guidance/cloud-assessment-and-authorisation
Lead agency: Australian Cyber Security Centre
Last updated: 18 January 2024 

The Cloud Assessment and Authorisation publication is intended for cloud service providers, Infosec Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessors and Non-Corporate Commonwealth Entities who are subject to the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 to the extent consistent with legislation. The publication assists and guides IRAP assessors, cloud consumer’s cyber security practitioners, cloud architects and business representatives on how to perform an assessment of a cloud service provider and its services, and the cloud consumer’s own self-developed systems hosted in the cloud.

If you have any questions regarding this guidance you can use this contact form or call 1300 292 371.

Capabilities

This design is part of the following capability.
CAP3

Cloud Computing

Policies

This design can be relevant to meeting the requirements of the following policies.
POL10

Cloud Computing policy

Standards

This design can be useful in achieving the intent of the following standard(s).

Cloud Computing standard

STA64
Cloud computing provides a service for government, underpinned by a dynamically growing marketplace, which can increase the agility, flexibility, and speed of delivery for digital services. It removes the big upfront investments in technology to enable scaling up or down quickly. This provides much…
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