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  • FedRAMP Cloud Security Program Names First Accredited Assessors

    FedRAMP Cloud Security Program Names First Accredited Assessors
    The federal office charged with promoting the sharing of security credentials for government cloud computing systems, known as FedRAMP, has released the first list of accredited Third Party ...
    2012-05-15T09:25:00Z by Wyatt Kash
  • RAMPing Up A Security Mindset

    RAMPing Up A Security Mindset
    Our organization, (ISC)² recently participated in the IT Acquisition Advisory Council's 40th IT-AAC Leadership Roundtable, where high-level cloud stakeholders came together to discuss cloud ...
    2012-04-30T11:48:00Z by W. Hord Tipton
  • Federal CIOs: How To Gear Up For FedRAMP

    Federal CIOs: How To Gear Up For FedRAMP
    Federal CIOs say agencies and government contractors must become completely familiar with FedRAMP security controls and how they relate to each agency prior to the cloud computing service program's ...
    2012-04-13T13:30:00Z by Elaine S. Povich
  • Unfiltered: What Federal IT Executives Are Talking About

    Unfiltered: What Federal IT Executives Are Talking About
    One of the many benefits of being the director of research at GTRA is that it offers the opportunity to speak candidly and off the record with countless executives from Defense, Intelligence and ...
    2012-04-05T15:35:00Z by Parham Eftekhari
  • FOSE Panelists Discuss Security Challenges In Cloud Migration

    FOSE Panelists Discuss Security Challenges In Cloud Migration
    How do agencies extend their governance, risk and compliance programs to take cloud computing initiatives into account? That's a question that panelists grappled with during a discussion of ...
    2012-04-04T11:00:00Z by Richard W. Walker
  • FOSE: CIOs Highlight Cloud Success, Challenges

    FOSE: CIOs Highlight Cloud Success, Challenges
    Don't wait around for the next wave in technology. Cloud computing is here to stay. You'll have to deal with it sooner or later. That was the message from IT managers attending annual FOSE ...
    2012-04-03T15:34:00Z by Richard W. Walker
  • VanRoekel At FOSE: Tight Budgets Call For Increased Innovation

    Tight budgets cannot be an excuse for lack of innovation. Rather, federal CIO Steven VanRoekel told the audience at the annual FOSE conference in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday that agencies have a ...
    2012-04-03T13:30:00Z by Richard W. Walker
  • Centralized Services Make More Sense As Mobile Movement Grows

    Centralized Services Make More Sense As Mobile Movement Grows
    Government has never lacked for big ideas. Getting them accomplished has been another story, although the nation's interstate highway system, the Internet and landing men on the moon are among just ...
    2012-03-16T15:00:00Z by Wyatt Kash
  • Microsoft Plans Community Cloud For Government Agencies

    Microsoft Plans Community Cloud For Government Agencies
    Microsoft officials revealed Thursday that the company is planning to develop a new dedicated multi-tenant, government community cloud computing environment. The move is part of a broadening effort ...
    2012-03-02T16:25:00Z by Wyatt Kash
  • Why Cloud Computing Will Drift In Under FedRAMP CONOPS

    Why Cloud Computing Will Drift In Under FedRAMP CONOPS
    Not only has cybersecurity started to take shape legislatively, cloud computing security has started to take shape administratively in a meaningful way. You won't find huge surprises in the grandly ...
    2012-02-22T13:59:00Z by Tom Temin from FedInsider
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