PAKISTAN CLOUD FIRST POLICY 9.1.1 Organizational Hierarchy of the Cloud Office Cloud board will be headed by Secretary MOITT, Government of Pakistan, while Chief Secretaries of all provinces or their representatives and two industry experts will be members of the board. The chief secretaries or their representatives will become part of the Cloud Board as members once respective provincial government adopts cloud first policy in line with this policy. Cloud Board DG Cloud Director Director Director Infra and Ops Director Legal/Procurement Cloud Adoption Audits Joint Director Joint Director Joint Director Joint Director Infra and Ops Legal/Procurement Cloud Adoption Audits 9.2 Senior Manager Senior Manager Senior Manager Senior Manager Infra and Ops Legal/Procurement Cloud Adoption Audits Accreditation of Cloud Service Providers for Government Data CSP will meet domestic and international standards set for accreditation of CSP to fulfil accreditation requirements of the Cloud Office. The Cloud Office will formulate accreditation criteria and benchmarks for all CSP opting to provide services to PSE. The criteria will be based on international benchmarks such as security, reliability, cost, interoperability, availability and any other established parameters. The process for CSP to be listed in the accredited list will be laid out by the Cloud Office. The Cloud Office will maintain an accredited list of CSP for PSE. This will not only ensure that security and reliability offered by CSP are in compliance with domestic and international standards but will also make the procurement of cloud services easier for PSE. PSE are required to provision services from accredited list of CSP only. The Cloud Office will have the authority to revoke the accreditation of CSP in case of non-compliance. Page 10 of 21