Samsung achieves a worthy victory as it has passed the National Intelligence Service’s ‘A-level’ security verification for the first time in the private cloud sector.
According to a report from the Ministry of the Interior and Safety’s National Information Resource Management Agency revealed that the KT Cloud and Samsung SDS have cleared the National Intelligence Service’s ‘A-level’ security verification for the first time in the private cloud sector.
Previously, essential services such as government24 had the only option to use the agency’s own data centers or any public clouds due to the lack of private clouds that could fulfill security requirements. However, based on this security verification result, crucial digital administrative services requiring ‘B-level’ or higher security will now be compatible with utilizing private clouds.
Now, Samsung SDS and KT Cloud are the official part of a ‘Public-Private Partnership (PPP)’ where private firms charter public facilities that meet security requirements to provide services. Noticeably, security verification for NHN Cloud is also underway, which hints that the figure of private clouds are capable of providing services for ‘A-level’ public tasks is expected to rise to three.
Apart from this, the National Information Resource Management Agency has already started a public-private partnership project by executing a bid to charter part of the Daegu Center data center to private cloud corporations last March.
The public-private partnership project allows corporations to autonomously build resource pools while utilizing the foundation: for instance, administrative work networks and physical security, provided by the agency, to offer private cloud services to administrative and public institutions.
