Macquarie Government achieves PROTECTED cloud accreditation for government cloud

Macquarie Government, the most experienced service provider to federal agencies, has emerged from a stringent and rigorous Federal Government assessment process accredited to provide “PROTECTED” cloud computing services. This is currently the highest security level certification for cloud services approved by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) on its Certified Cloud Services List (CCSL).

The announcement means Macquarie Government’s GovZone (Secure Cloud) service can host government data classified up to the Protected level.

“The security of Government ICT systems managing citizen’s data has never been under greater scrutiny as risks increase such as the recent ransomware attack, and as community awareness grows,” Macquarie Government managing director Aidan Tudehope said.

“At the same time, the Federal Government is determined to lift the performance of Government by driving digital transformation, a cornerstone of which is moving to modern, flexible models of processing, moving and storing information,” he said.

“Macquarie has invested hugely in specialised infrastructure in our highly secure data centres in Canberra and Sydney, and in building a team of over 100 security cleared staff, all because we believe security is the foundation of Government digital transformation.

“The need for “baked in” security was made clear in the report on the eCensus failure, which recommended the certification of protected cloud services should be hastened to help Government agencies move to safer information storage and management environments,” he said.

“As an Australian business continuing to invest in Canberra, we are proud to be the first scale cloud services providers to achieve ASD Protected status.”

The achievement follows Macquarie Government becoming the first Australian cloud provider to be added to the Australian Signals Directorate’s Certified Cloud Services List (CCSL) when it was first announced in May 2015, for services deemed suitable to host data up the Unclassified-DLM security level.

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As a part of ASX listed Macquarie Technology Group (ASX: MAQ), Macquarie Government is Australian specialist in cyber security, secure cloud and data centres solutions. Currently 42% of Federal Government agencies trust and use Macquarie Government’s security and cloud services.