About a year ago, my friend Bob Gourley, an influential member of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA), called me up with an interesting request: “Will you help me out with this whitepaper? It should only take us a few months to get it done.”

Gourley had been asked to put together a whitepaper to address cloud computing for the Intelligence Community (IC). To be honest, many of my IC friends had long ago relegated cloud computing as nothing more than marketing hype. You can clearly imagine my surprise with this interest from one of the premier national security industry organizations! Keep reading →