It’s not entirely clear if simply codifying FedRAMP will have a noticeable impact on the program or the way it operates, but nothing in the law suggests any effort to strengthen federal cloud security requirements.
The FedRAMP PMO rolled out a new logo and announced the addition of four cloud systems to its list of authorized service providers, bringing the total of authorized solutions to 27.
Last week, Amazon announced that it had received separate agency authorizations to operate (ATO) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for two of its Amazon Web Services cloud computing offerings, and that…
Just over a year after OMB formally announced the the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), which relies on third-party assessments of cloud service providers seeking to offer their services to government agencies, the FedRAMP…
In the latest follow-up to “cloud first” policy advocated by federal CIO Vivek Kundra and the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy issued last February, OMB released new federal policy guidance directing agencies to use the requirements, security…
From a legal standpoint, it appears that while many opinions exist on how privacy can be protected in the cloud, who should ultimately be responsible for that protection, and how law enforcement agencies and other government entities should treat cloud environments, there are more unresolved issues than there are settled ones.
Google announced today that its public-sector focused cloud computing service, Google Apps for Government, successfully completed a security certification and accreditation (C&A) process and received an authorization to operate (ATO) from the General Services Administration. This…
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