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Coalfire’s Michael Carter: House Bill Aims to Address Redundant Assessments Under FedRAMP
Michael Carter, vice president of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and assurance services at Coalfire, has said Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) and Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) introduced in July a bill that would propose changes to FedRAMP. “Overall, the key benefits of the legislation, from our view, include improved efficiency in the process (through the […] More
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FedRAMP Board Approves CDS’ Federal Cloud Service Offering
Complete Discovery Source has obtained approval from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s Joint Authorization Board to offer a service meant to help agencies manage records in cloud environments. The board granted authority to operate certification to CDS’ Federal Cloud Services offering after a rigorous security evaluation process, the said Monday. Nyi Htwe, chief technology […] More
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FedRAMP Board Issues Provisional ATO to 20 AWS Cloud Services
Amazon Web Services has obtained provisional Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification from the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board to offer 20 cloud services to government agencies. AWS said Monday the new provisional authority-to-operate at the “Moderate” baseline will centralize the maintenance for the P-ATO of 10 AWS services that are previously authorized and add 10 new […] More
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Accenture Gets FedRAMP Provisional Authorization for Cloud-Based Analytics Platform
Accenture‘s federal services business has received a provisional authority-to-operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Joint Authorization Board for a platform-as-a-service cloud offering. The Accenture Insights Platform for Government is a cloud-based tool that works to provide agencies with analytics, data access and visualization functionalities to help accelerate the development and deployment of analytics-driven platforms, […] More
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Microsoft Azure Govt Cloud Gets FedRAMP High ATO Certifications From DOJ
Microsoft has received two Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program authority-to-operate certifications from the Justice Department for its Azure Government cloud platform. The company said Tuesday it received the FedRAMP High ATO authorizations for Azure Government through DOJ’s justice management division responsible for the agency’s information resources, policy guidance, financial and human resources management. The certifications seek […] More
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SAIC, Vazata Partner to Offer FedRAMP-Compliant Cloud Platform
Science Applications International Corp. and Vazata have partnered to offer government agencies a cloud technology platform certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. SAIC can distribute Virtual Secure Cloud Platform, for which Vazata secured provisional authority to operate through FedRAMP, as part of the partnership deal, Vazata said Wednesday. The agreement also designates Vazata as the exclusive […] More
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FedRAMP Board Prioritizes 7 Cloud Firms for Provisional Authorization Process
Seven companies have gained priority status to work with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s Joint Authorization Board to obtain a provisional authority-to-operate for different cloud technology and service offerings. FedRAMP said Tuesday the seven cloud service providers were selected to participate in the FedRAMP Connect initiative based on government demand for the companies’ products and a set […] More
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AWS Gets FedRAMP P-ATO Approvals for 9 New GovCloud (US) Services
Amazon Web Services has received provisional authority-to-operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s joint authorization board for nine services designed for use in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region platform. The board issued the P-ATO approvals after it evaluated AWS’ cloud service offerings against FedRAMP’s high-impact level security requirements, AWS said Wednesday. AWS said AWS CloudFormation is one […] More
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Microsoft Azure Govt Cloud Gets FedRAMP High ATO From VA
The Department of Veterans Affairs has granted authority-to-operate certification to Microsoft‘s Azure Government cloud platform through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Microsoft said Wednesday the FedRAMP High ATO designation confirms that Azure meets security standards needed to handle sensitive VA workloads such personally identifiable information and protected health information. The company also received FedRAMP approval in February to add 12 customer-facing services in Azure Government’s provisional ATO. […] More
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Datapipe Obtains FedRAMP Certification for PaaS Cloud Platform
Datapipe has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for the company’s platform-as-a-service offering to government agencies. FedRAMP’s Joint Authorization Board certified the Datapipe Government Cloud platform as compliant with 800-53 Revision 4 controls that cover privacy and additional security measures. Datapipe provides operating and security services to support an organization’s virtual operating system and virtual network layer through PaaS. Dan Tudahl, president and general manager […] More
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FedRAMP Board Approves 3 New AWS GovCloud Services; Teresa Carlson Comments
Amazon Web Services has received a provisional authority-to-operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s joint authorization board for three of the company’s GovCloud service offerings for U.S. government clients. The board issued high baseline certifications for AWS’ Relational Database Service for MySQL, Oracle, and PostgresSQL; Amazon CloudWatch Logs; and AWS CloudTrail, the company said Friday. “We are […] More