Microsoft’s NZ North public cloud data centre region has become the first global cloud service provider region to achieve certification by Government Chief Digital Office (GCDO).
The GCDO said the certification provided agencies with confidence that Microsoft meets robust governance processes and physical and personnel security requirements in line with New Zealand government protective security requirements (PSR).
The certification demonstrated the government’s commitment to enhancing digital public infrastructure and supporting the transition of government systems to the cloud, the GCDO said.
Certification provides a standardised and consistent security assessment of NZ’s onshore public cloud data centres.
The GCDO has now granted three public cloud data centre certifications, aligning with the government’s cloud first policy, which requires government agencies and organisations to adopt public cloud services in preference to traditional ICT systems.
Last week, TEAM IM became the first New Zealand-owned cloud service provider to achieve certification.
A few days earlier, CDC’s Silverdale and Hobsonville campuses in Auckland became New Zealand’s first GCDO certified public cloud data centres.