What to expect when you are moving to AF Cloud One

Executive Order 14028, Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity, seems clear on the move to cloud services: “The Federal Government must… accelerate movement to secure cloud services” and “prioritize resources for the adoption and use of cloud technology.”
Not only is reality less encouraging, but as soon as sensitive data sets are involved, the rules change. For many very good reasons, classified data is handled more carefully. “There is no cloud. It is just someone else’s computer” rings all too true.
Even so, options exist. Air Force Cloud One offers cloud environments to host and process data at all different impact levels. They have prepared and blessed areas of AWS and Azure for classified work. All you need to do is sign up and you are ready to go!
Sound too good to be true? Of course, it is.

Gene will share his experiences and lessons learned on his current and ongoing journey to move from on-premises computers to a public cloud application to an AWS Cloud One environment. Despite his cynicism, it isn’t all bad news. It is really more about setting expectations.

Speaker Bio:
Gene Gotimer is a DevSecOps Engineer with Praeses, LLC, helping build products for the US Air Force and other government customers. He loves playing with new tools, focusing on agile processes, making development more secure, and automating everything. Gene feels strongly that repeatability, quality, and security are all strongly intertwined; each depends on the other two, making agile and DevSecOps crucial to software development.