This week on Federal Tech Talk, Collab9 Vice President Steven Boberski joined host John Gilroy for a wide ranging discussion on FedRAMP, Cloud Computing Security Guidelines, and CMMC.
The Defense Department continues to test out the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) process with pathfinders and plans to pilot the approach with 10 contracts in 2021.
In today's Federal Newscast, at least 132,000 health care professionals at the Department of Veterans Affairs have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The annual Defense authorization bill is filled with policy changes for non-defense agencies, including more than 50 focused on cybersecurity and a host of others address small business contracting.
A technology industry representative told reporters yesterday that the interim rule DoD published in September didn't offer enough clarity about the certification process, costs and reciprocity.
David Waltermire, the technical lead for OSCAL at NIST, and Milica Green, a compliance subject matter expert with Telos Corporation, say the development and implementation of the Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL) will reduce the time, cost and challenges of FedRAMP certifications.
In today's Federal Newscast: A former defense contractor is sentenced to prison for fraud and bribery. The Census Bureau’s IT infrastructure has performed better than officials expected. And the Air Force improves its policy for nursing mothers to improve retention.
In today's Federal Newscast: Special Counsel Henry Kerner said the Hatch Act does not apply to Trump and Pence, the Post Office lost $1 billion dollars last month and a missing Fort Hood soldier is found dead.
The House-passed annual defense authorization bill includes a few notable provisions for civilian federal employees.
In today's Federal Newscast, a bicameral group of Democrats say top leadership vacancies at the Federal Emergency Management Agency are unacceptable.
Dan Fallon the senior director, public sector systems engineers at Nutanix, says 85% of organizations are planning to shift their investments to hybrid cloud architectures.
For many agencies, the shift to a modernized approach to contact center operations is only just getting underway.
Nearly a decade in, several voices are calling for FedRAMP reform. Among them, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Senate applauds the State Department for bringing more than 100,000 Americans home during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Federal Risk Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) already authorized 47 new products as of June, which is more than it did in all of 2019.