The number of companies waiting for sign-off under the federal government’s troubled data sovereignty scheme has reached its highest level in two years.
Amid a review of the scheme that remains unfinished after two years, more than 40 cloud and data centre providers wanting to carry protected-level public sector data have applications snarled up at the Department of Home Affairs.
The log-jam, which has persisted since the Hosting Certification Framework (HCF) began in earnest in 2022, continues despite the department outsourcing parts of the assessment process.
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