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A “perfect storm” of cloud technology and user experience requirements is making it possible for agencies to modernize and deliver secure, user-friendly services, explains Okta Federal Chief Security Officer Sean Frazier at the 2022 Cloud Exchange.
If government healthcare organizations don’t plan how they will optimize workflow and applications, the cloud can cost more than maintaining legacy environments. We talk with Veritas Healthcare CTO Rick Bryant about how to avoid that pitfall.
As agencies push toward zero trust in a multicloud world, “identity is really becoming the new perimeter,” explain Leidos security experts Jason Ni and Richard Wheeler at the Federal News Network Cloud Exchange.
The VA has drastically cut down the time it takes to authorize a new application for operational use on its multi-cloud network. Joe Fourcade, lead cybersecurity analyst at the VA’s Enterprise Cloud Solutions Office, says the streamlined “authority-to-operate” process helps gives VA projects “the ability to focus resources on the operation of their system, and only the controls that are really required of them.”
Kurt DelBene, the assistant secretary for the Office of Information and Technology and chief information officer at VA, said he is adding more rigor to the process to get systems and application on the network.
Both pilots rely heavily on the groundwork already laid by the Army's Enterprise Cloud Management Agency, and are expected to start onboarding large numbers of new users by early October.
Over the course of the last week, the General Services Administration issued and received comments on a draft Ascend Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA). This BPA seeks to assist agencies in their efforts “to develop and implement enterprise-level cloud acquisition strategies through a modernized and simplified approach to meet their IT and cybersecurity requirements.”
Cloudera Government Solutions President Rob Carey writes that to simplify operation of a hybrid infrastructure, a “single pane of glass” is needed to manage hybrid data solutions.
Long-time Education Department CIO Jason Gray is moving on from his role this month to take the same position at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Tom Santucci, the director of IT modernization within GSA's Office of Governmentwide Policy, and Steven Naumann, a senior advisor in Office of IT Modernization, said agencies must find the right balance of where their applications can be the most effective.
Federal News Network's Cloud Exchange event is now on demand! Discover how agencies are embracing new services and cloud models in a hybrid and multicloud world.
Jarrod Bruner, Capture Program executive in the Office of the Associate Director for Administration, said the U.S. Marshals Service had a problem with its core mission system bigger and more complex than anything they could fix at once.
Allen Hill, the deputy assistant commissioner for Category Management in the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, said agencies are moving toward managed services or the as-a-service model.
The House will consider several workforce-related amendments to the 2023 Defense Authorization Act, including bringing TSA employees under Title 5.