Microsoft has modified the requirements needed by members of the defense industrial base applying for access to the company's U.S. government cloud offerings to help them adapt to the Department of Defense's new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification standards.
Read More »Microsoft, HITRUST Unveil Security Controls Compliance Matrix for Azure
Microsoft and the Healthcare Information Trust Alliance have launched a matrix intended to assist customers of the company’s Azure cloud offering in efforts to implement HITRUST controls and comply with global cybersecurity standards.
Read More »HHS Posts RFI for Commercial Cloud Hosting Services
The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking information on cloud hosting options to migrate and field services in a bid to support public health emergency response activities.
Read More »Unisys Wins Several Gov’t Cloud Contracts During Q3; Eric Hutto Quoted
Unisys Corporation has been awarded a series of global cloud contracts with public sector clients throughout the third quarter of 2020. "Our cloud solutions, including those for hybrid and multi-cloud, are designed to help clients not only increase innovation, but in more efficient models,” said Eric Hutto, president and chief operating officer for Unisys.
Read More »Gwynne Shotwell: SpaceX’s Starlink to Bring Point-to-Point Connectivity to Microsoft’s Azure
Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX and a three-time Wash100 awardee, discussed in a video interview posted Monday about the company’s partnership with Microsoft to bring the Starlink satellite connectivity to the latter’s Azure cloud computing platform.
Read More »Microsoft Adds 18 Azure Services to Support DoD Impact Level 5 Data
Microsoft has increased the number of its Azure Government cloud services that are authorized to handle Department of Defense workloads at the highest security baseline by 18. The company said Tuesday it now has 97 offerings on its platform for hosting impact level 5 controlled unclassified information.
Read More »Intact-CenturyLink Partnership Offers Cloud Services Through GSA IT Schedule
Intact has secured a five-year contract under the General Services Administration's Information Technology Schedule 70 contract through a partnership with CenturyLink to provide cloud services to government customers.
Read More »NetApp Rolls Out File Storage Service on Microsoft Azure
NetApp has begun to offer a cloud-based file storage service through Microsoft Azure's government region data centers.
Read More »Halfaker Books CMS Cloud Security Support Contract
Halfaker and Associates has secured a three-year, $18M contract to help the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services secure the agency's enterprise cloud computing system.
Read More »McAfee Receives FedRAMP High Certification for Cloud Access Security Broker Platform
McAfee has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for a cloud security access broker platform designed to help federal customers protect data and applications in multicloud computing environments. The FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board granted provisional authority-to-operate approval to McAfee's MVISION Cloud offering at high level, the company said Thursday.
Read More »Conduent Launches Disease Surveillance Tech on Azure Cloud
Conduent has released a disease surveillance and outbreak management technlogy on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform as part of efforts to help public health organizations trace and report COVID-19 cases.
Read More »Microsoft Unveils CMMC Acceleration Program
Microsoft has launched an end-to-end program designed to help clients and partners serving as defense suppliers prepare for and facilitate their compliance with the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. The Microsoft CMMC acceleration program seeks to help DoD suppliers “improve their cybersecurity maturity, develop the cyber critical thinking skills essential to CMMC, and benefit from the compliance capabilities native to Azure and Azure Government,” Lily Kim, general manager of Azure Global at Microsoft, wrote in a blog entry posted Tuesday.
Read More »ICE Seeks Sources for New Legal Data Mgmt Software
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of the Principal Legal Advisor seeks market information on electronic discovery software.
Read More »SAIC, Goodyear Initiate Blockchain-Based Supply Chain Security Program; Jim Scanlon Quoted
Science Applications International Corp. and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. have partnered to launch a pilot program that aims to secure customer data across a supply chain with the use of blockchain technology.
Read More »Treasury Issues Cloud Shared Service Support RFI
The Department of the Treasury has issued a request for information on vendors of Amazon Web Services offerings to support a cloud shared services program.
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