Coalfire Federal has been certified to provide advisory services that help businesses comply with the Department of Defense's new standards for supply chain cybersecurity. The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body named Coalfire Federal a registered provider organization that will assist businesses in following DOD's CMMC standards, the company said Wednesday.

Coalfire Federal has been certified by the accreditation body of the Department of Defense's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program to conduct audits to determine compliance of defense contractors with mandatory cybersecurity standards set by the Pentagon.

Michael Pitcher, vice president of technical cyber services at Coalfire’s federal business, has said government agencies should perform continuous monitoring operations in the cloud to protect cloud-based assets from cyber vulnerabilities. Pitcher wrote in a blog post published Friday that agencies should understand their continuous monitoring approach as the cloud …

Nick Son has been named the new managing director of Coalfire Federal‘s office in Washington, where he will be responsible for growing the company’s customers private and public sector interested in cloud computing. Son will also support the company’s expansion into the federal advisory and assessment services sector, Coalfire Federal …

Coalfire‘s federal arm has received a level 3 appraisal under the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration program in recognition of standard business processes within the unit. The company said Wednesday Ace Guides reviewed Coalfire’s set of internal processes, procedures and practices that served as the basis for the rating. Bill Malone, …

Martin Rieger, a federal cloud computing market veteran, has joined security automation company stackArmor as chief solutions officer. He brings to stackArmor his decades of advisory experience related to the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and Federal Information Security Management Act, the company said Tuesday.

Amazon Web Services has included Coalfire to its list of launch partners under the Authority to Operate program.

A Coalfire study has found that the number of authorizations issued under the federal government's cloud computing program grew 33 percent year-over-year between 2016 and 2018.

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 …

The Federal Communications Commission is working to disable scammers from reselling lost or stolen government devices, Nextgov reports. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and law enforcement officials announced Tuesday that the wireless industry agreed to block service on mobile devices when they are reported stolen.  Industry will roll out the new process …

Recently, ExecutiveBiz spoke with John Epperly, president of DMI Federal, about the honor to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion and speak at the National Guard monument on Omaha Beach on Thursday. In addition, Epperly discussed the impact the Virginia National Guard had on D-Day and how the events shaped the town of Vierville-sur-Mer, France.

Lockheed Martin has been designated an approved provider of community cloud computing services to federal, state and local agencies from the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board, which approves cloud products and services on a governmentwide level. The board comprises of chief information officers from the General Services Administration and the departments …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 19, 2019 — Amazon Web Services' GovCloud (US) platform provided support to Smartsheet, developer of the cloud-based work organization and automation platform Smartsheet Gov, as the latter worked to secure a provisional authority to operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, GovCon Wire reported Aug. 30.

Saviynt has obtained an authority to operate certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to provide an identity governance platform to government clients.

Amazon Web Services has unveiled a new program that seeks to help independent software vendors secure authority-to-operate certifications through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and other compliance programs. The ATO on AWS initiative aims to provide ISVs with tools, training, control implementation details and CloudFormation templates as well …