{"id":22161,"date":"2022-12-23T12:59:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T12:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/?p=22161"},"modified":"2023-01-11T14:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T14:53:32","slug":"macquarie-telecom-group-becomes-first-company-certified-by-dta-for-cloud-and-data-center-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/2022\/12\/23\/macquarie-telecom-group-becomes-first-company-certified-by-dta-for-cloud-and-data-center-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Macquarie Telecom Group becomes first company certified by DTA for cloud and data center services"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/12\/Aidan-Tudehope_Macquarie-Government_1-w.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22163\" width=\"235\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/12\/Aidan-Tudehope_Macquarie-Government_1-w.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/12\/Aidan-Tudehope_Macquarie-Government_1-w-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/12\/Aidan-Tudehope_Macquarie-Government_1-w-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Aidan Tudehope, Managing Director, Macquarie Government<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Macquarie Telecom Group has announced that its cloud services have been \u2018Certified Strategic\u2019 by the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) under its Hosting Certification Framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The certification makes Macquarie the first company to have all its&nbsp;data centers&nbsp;and cloud services Certified Strategic, a key feature of the DTA\u2019s Whole-of-Government Hosting Certification Framework. It follows the certification of Macquarie\u2019s data center portfolio last year, which includes facilities in Canberra and Sydney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The certification comes as the Australian Government increases its focus on data security via policy initiatives including the National Data Security Action Plan, the REDSPICE project, the Hardening Government IT Initiative, the Privacy Legislation Amendment and wider plans to reform the nation\u2019s cybersecurity and privacy regulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aidan Tudehope, Managing Director, Macquarie Government, said stringent certification processes like the DTA\u2019s Hosting Certification Framework help take the guesswork out of government agencies safeguarding data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs cyberattacks continue to grow in frequency and sophistication, Australia\u2019s cybersecurity industry is scaling up to meet the challenge of protecting us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe DTA is simplifying and de-risking the decision-making process on cloud, data storage and data hosting by providing agencies clear guidelines on the security credentials, capabilities and the ownership and controls present among cloud and data center providers. It\u2019s a vital mechanism to bolster our nation\u2019s cybersecurity posture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macquarie Telecom Group has announced that its cloud services have been \u2018Certified Strategic\u2019 by the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) under its Hosting Certification Framework. The certification makes Macquarie the first company to have all its&nbsp;data centers&nbsp;and cloud services Certified Strategic, a key feature of the DTA\u2019s Whole-of-Government Hosting Certification Framework. It follows the certification of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":22162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18,51,55,42,44,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-centres","category-enterprise-security","category-intelligent-technology-newsletter","category-oceania","category-industry-verticals-telecom","category-top-stories","category-used"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22161"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22629,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22161\/revisions\/22629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}