Handling Classified Data in the Cloud

When working with confidential, secret or top secret data a lot of concepts and principles come into play which are commonly originally developed for on-premise environments related to governmental or military data. While the concepts are commonly developed in an on-premise only era and have been developed for military and governmental data they can be applied in cloud environments and are also applicable for commercial enterprises.

Commercial enterprises and top secret data
A common initial reaction from people is that commercial enterprises do not hold things…