Veris Group, which now operates under cyber risk management services provider Coalfire, has completed the review of three additional service offerings within Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud (US) platform as a third-party independent assessment organization for AWS under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Coalfire said Tuesday the Amazon CloudWatch Logs, AWS CloudTrail and Amazon Relational […] More

The U.S. Census Bureau has granted VMware authority-to-operate approval under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer the company’s cloud-based enterprise mobility management platform in the public sector. The FedRAMP ATO designation is for the VMware AirWatch platform that works to help users manage, secure and remotely deliver mobile applications from cloud environments, the company said Thursday. Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales […] More

QTS has received a government authorization to operate its Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas metropolitan region data center in recognition of the company’s compliance with data security requirements set by the Federal Information Security Management Act. FISMA third-party party assessment organization Coalfire conducted an audit of the colocation and data center services QTS offers through the DFW facility based on the act’s latest version, QTS […] More

Clear Government Solutions has received a provisional authority-to-operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Joint Authorization Board to offer the company’ FedGRID cloud computing tool to federal agencies. The company said Tuesday that the board — which comprises officials from agencies such as the Defense Department, Department of Homeland Security and General Services Administration — awarded the JAB P-ATO after an […] More

Cloud software and services provider Virtustream has received an authorization to implement its security controls on the Interior Department’s federal cloud platform. Coalfire, a third-party assessment organization, performed the evaluation and Virtustream received security documentation and security posture for complying with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, Virtustream said Thursday. “We are committed to […] More