FedRAMP officials say the authorization process is likely to take anywhere from 4-8 weeks.
The Cloud Center of Excellence has four working documents designed to help agencies tackle funding challenges and acquire and secure cloud solutions with more confidence.
David Greetham, vice president of eDiscovery Sales and Operations for Ricoh USA, discusses digital forensics, eDiscovery, recent changes in the Federal Rules of Evidence, and Ricoh's pending FedRamp ready status. September 11, 2017
For its federal IT strategy, the Trump administration is continuing the emphasis for the use of cloud computing as established during the previous administration. But cloud is a moving target for federal agencies.
In today's Federal Newscast, a report issued by the Defense Department inspector general has found 350 known security vulnerabilities at three Army hospitals and clinics, adding Defense Heath Agency and Army officials have failed to effectively protect electronic patient health information.
The Defense Department is taking a new look at the rules it applies to contracts with commercial cloud computing providers. The Pentagon's acting CIO wants staff to examine whether vendors' own security controls could replace DoD's requirement for government-operated cloud access points.
Dave McClure, a former Government Accountability Office and General Services Administration executive and now chief strategist for Coalfire, said the company studied the six-year-old program and found costs, usage and time to get through the process are much better than the general perception.
Army says commands have already issued several RFPs under new contract vehicle for cloud services, migration.
Cloud migration trending up for federal agencies
Technology is not only rapidly changing, but the way federal information technology professionals work is also undergoing rapid transformation. A recent Forbes study showed that today a typical professional is on twice as many teams as a mere five years ago. Not only that, but these teams form rapidly and can be geographically diverse.
Accelera Solutions Executive Vice President Terrill Andrews and company president and COO Steve Weiss join host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how their company can help your agency during its transition to the cloud. April 4, 2017
GSA FedRAMP director Matt Goodrich joins QTS's David McOmber, CSRA's Seth Abrams and host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how FedRAMP's ambitious new goals will help federal agencies transition to the cloud. March 28, 2017
Many agencies agree that cloud security services are an important part of their mission, but just how much to rely on those services is a question new administration officials will need to consider as they settle into their management roles.
Meet Jack and Zach. You may have seen them around in a variety of situations where Zach is happy and Jack is not. Why is that? Because Jack relies on aging, non-authorized infrastructure and service, that’s why! And while it might be funny to follow along with Jack and Zach’s exploits, here at Cisco we know that security is no laughing matter. We created Jack and Zach to get your attention about two major security concerns in the public sector: aging network infrastructure and non-FedRAMP-authorized cloud-based collaboration tools.
Federal News Radio received an early look at how the cloud security program known as the Federal Risk Authorization and Management Program (FedRAMP) plans to improve how it interacts with agencies and vendors next year.