US Government Creates Cloud Computing Security Group

http://fcw.com/articles/2009/02/25/nist-cloud-computing.aspx

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has created a new team to determine the best way to provide security for agencies that want to adopt the emerging technology called cloud computing, said Ron Ross, a senior computer scientist and information security researcher at NIST.

“The team will give our customers a sense of what kinds of risks they may be taking on by moving into that new territory,” Ross said today at the SaaS/Gov 2009 conference produced by the Software and Information Industry Association and market research firm Input.