Amid the Defense Department's aggressive strides in opening the Pentagon doors to commercial cloud services, officials are working to establish protocol for what happens when there's a breach or loss of data.

"I think it's a serious discussion we have to have…privacy and what happens when you lose the data. Because let's be real – it's not about if. At some point, somebody's going to lose some of our data," Terry Halvorsen, acting DoD CIO, said at an event held Feb. 12 in Washington by thee Cloud Computing Caucus Advisory Group. "We've got to have that conversation up front so when it happens we all agree how it's going to work and what are the rules."

It's an ongoing conversation that's unfolding between government and industry, and one that's critical to continue, Halvorsen said.

"We're taking our standards as they are today, how we in DoD respond to a loss, and we're working through that with our current pilot partners," Halvorsen said. "We're explaining to them this is what we have to do; now, what's the equivalent of that in the commercial sector? If that equivalency doesn't meet our [requirements], then what's the plus we have to add there?"

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