A cut-down version of the government data hosting rules that currently apply to data centres and cloud storage will be extended to cloud software and third-party IT services under the second iteration of the Hosting Certification Framework.
The proposed carve-out for software-as-a-service and managed service providers comes as the Department of Home Affairs continues a review of the federal government scheme that has now been underway for more than 18 months.
Introduced in March 2021, the Hosting Certification Framework (HCF) requires data centre and cloud services providers wanting to host sensitive government data and systems be rated to a protected classification level to meet stringent control conditions.
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