How DHS moved its network to the cloud

FedScoop: For agencies looking at migrating their network operations, Damon Bragg has some advice.

“Don’t boil the ocean, don’t try to do it all,” said the service operations manager of the Homeland Security Information Network. “Unless you have very deep pockets and there’s no real timeline, have at it. I don’t know that project.”

A year after migrating the Department of Homeland Security’s information network and its services to a secure cloud environment, Bragg told an audience at the Amazon Web Services Public Sector Summit Wednesday that the key was to always keep the project moving forward.

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