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Dylan Browne, General Manager of the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA), comments that “strengthening NATO's ability to safely leverage commercial technology is key to building a more resilient and agile Alliance. the availability of commercial products that meet NATO security requirements expands the Alliance's technological options and supports our ability to adopt modern technologies, while maintaining the security and resilience on which our operations so heavily rely”.

For your part, David Appel, vicepresidente global del equipo de ventas para Sector Público de AWS, emphasizes that “esta aprobación, la primera de su clase, es la culminación de un esfuerzo prolongado de varios años. Refleja nuestro compromiso por ayudar a los clientes y socios de defensa, sector público y afiliados a la OTAN a cumplir sus misiones críticas. Creemos que los gobiernos, y los ciudadanos a los que sirven, merecen acceso a la misma infraestructura y servicios que impulsan la innovación en el sector privado. Dede AWS seguiremos trabajando para ofrecer la interoperabilidad que las naciones aliadas necesitan para reforzar su resiliencia y proteger a sus ciudadanos”.

At the national level, AWS ha superado las auditorías de seguridad, las aprobaciones de servicios de seguridad (Security Enforcing Services) realizadas por el equipo del Catálogo de Productos y Servicios de Seguridad de las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (CPSTIC) y los requisitos necesarios emitidos por el CCN y la ONS para ofrecer una infraestructura sobre la que cualquier organización del sector público y de defensa acreditadas en España pueda desplegar sus cargas de trabajo con clasificación DL y NR en la nube pública de AWS en la Región de España.

With it, AWS queda aprobada para DL y NR en el lado del proveedor de servicios cloud y pone a disposición de sus clientes una infraestructura preparada en España. Cada organización cliente deberá, for his part, complete the accreditation process of their own systems (tenants) deployed on said infrastructure, in accordance with the CCN-STIC policy-004 and the requirements of the ONS.

This accreditation is the result of a demanding process: AWS previously obtained certification under the National Security Scheme (ENS) in the HIGH category and the approval of 28 security services and functionalities in the Catalog of ICT Security Products and Services (CPSTIC) of the CCN, que incluyen 26 security services and 2 fundamental infrastructure services, computing (Amazon EC2) and storage (Amazon S3), adding 28 en total. On that basis, AWS also met the specific requirements for handling Limited Dissemination information established in the CCN-STIC policy-004 and the requirements of the National Security Office (l), including a security assessment of data centers.

Benefits for NATO clients and partners globally

NATO, its defense industry partners, and all member nations, can now use AWS-approved services to handle NATO Restricted workloads in any AWS Region located in a NATO member nation. With the already published AWS NR approval for the entire Alliance, NATO members and partners inherit a common and pre-assessed security baseline, lo que ayuda a reducing the time, effort, and cost to meet their security and compliance obligations.

Allies can accelerate accreditation on AWS: after AWS NR approval, Allies will have an expedited pathway to accredit AWS through their official national process. By achieving NATO Restricted and National Restricted Distribution approvals, AWS reinforces its commitment to meet the security needs of governments and defense organizations. More than 15.000 government agencies around the world use AWS to reduce costs, increase resilience and innovate more quickly. With this announcement, AWS and NATO have taken an important step forward together to help allied nations secure their critical missions in the cloud.