Report: IRS has no plan for cloud, skipped risk management protocol for Form 990 site

Fedscoop: A report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has found that the Internal Revenue Service still lacks a cohesive strategy to shift toward cloud computing and failed to implement risk management procedures when it used a consumer cloud service to disclose public information on tax-exempt nonprofits.

The Aug. 7 TIGTA report outlines the IRS’s efforts to develop a cloud strategy in line with the Obama administration’s 2011 guidance to move federal agency operations to the cloud, finding that the agency didn’t prioritize the move until July 2016.

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