House panel gets cloud computing lowdown
Despite the potential benefits, a congressional watchdog warns that a more detailed game plan is needed to cover security and procedural concerns about cloud co...
The Federal CIO, our cloud PMO (project management office), the CIO council, which has a security working group, and NIST have come together… We have come up with a process and corresponding security controls that have been agreed to by multiple agencies. We’re calling this program FEDRAMP. It provides a government-wide risk management approach for enterprise-level IT systems. It will enable agencies to either use or leverage existing security authorizatitons.
Some of companies who will very likely be competing for contracts to provide cloud computing services to the federal government, such as Microsoft, Google, EMC Federal, and Salesforce.com, also testified at yesterday’s first oversight hearing into cloud computing by the House Oversight Committee.
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