FedRAMP

The Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law, a nonprofit focused on federal cyber policies, released a white paper with three recommendations for how to improve FedRAMP as well as allow for more innovation in the cloud security marketplace.

In today’s Federal Newscast, media reports indicate that J. David Patterson is removing himself from consideration.

After several years, a consortium of agencies has been working on FedRAMP, a program to certify cybersecurity of cloud computing services providers.

The cybersecurity environment has shifted dramatically in recent years, and that means yesterday’s tools and approaches – especially those which rely upon manual and/or siloed processes – will no longer suffice.

In today’s Federal Newscast, IT security controls continue to be a material weakness for the financial management systems at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is moving fast but in a transparent manner.

In today’s Federal Newscast, two lawmakers want to even the playing field for hourly wage workers and General Schedule employees who work in the same location.

Matt Goodrich, the former director of the cloud security program known as FedRAMP and now is a principal solutions engineer and security specialist at Salesforce, said he survived personal and professional attacks by his own stubbornness and the fact what his team was doing was right.

In today’s Federal Newscast, a group of D.C. area Democrats in the House are hoping to block any funding meant for the relocation of the Bureau of Land Management’s headquarters.

The General Services Administration has rolled out a roadmap to accelerate the cloud vendor certification process under the Federal Risk Authorization and Management Program (FedRAMP).