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  • Veterans Affairs Selects Zenoss Platform for Cybersecurity Monitoring - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Veterans Affairs Selects Zenoss Platform for Cybersecurity Monitoring

    The Department of Veterans Affairs‘ office of cybersecurity (OSC) has chosen Zenoss‘ information technology monitoring system to track the performance of technologies it hosts. Zenoss Service Dynamics platform will be utilized by the OSC to gain holistic health and performance insights on hardware and software within the office’s enclaves managed by the Cyber Security Hosted Services, […] More

  • CloudCheckr Unveils Software Products on AWS Marketplace for US Govt Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CloudCheckr Unveils Software Products on AWS Marketplace for US Govt Agencies

    CloudCheckr has made its software offerings available on Amazon Web Services‘ marketplace for users of the latter company’s isolated cloud region for the U.S. government. Rochester, New York-based CloudCheckr said Monday customers can now access its services through the AWS Marketplace, which helps GovCloud (US) users streamline processes and find cloud management vendors that meet security and compliance […] More

  • AWS Govt Cloud Platform Obtains Provisional Authorization to Host DoD Impact Level 5 Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Govt Cloud Platform Obtains Provisional Authorization to Host DoD Impact Level 5 Data

    Amazon Web Services has received provisional authorization from the Defense Information Systems Agency to host the Defense Department‘s Impact Level 5 workloads in the company’s isolated cloud region for U.S. government customers. Organizations working with DoD can now use GovCloud (US) to comply with the DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide for impact levels 5, 2 and […] More

  • Tiag Obtains AWS Consulting Partner Accreditation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tiag Obtains AWS Consulting Partner Accreditation

    Amazon Web Services has designated tiag as a consulting partner under the AWS Public Sector Partner Program, which is comprised of companies that support the cloud operations of government, education or non-profit customers. Reston, Viginia-based tiag said Friday it has been authorized to support customer missions in all program categories including government; nonprofit; primary and K-12 education; […] More

  • Gigamon to Offer Visibility Platform on AWS Govt Cloud; Dennis Reilly Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gigamon to Offer Visibility Platform on AWS Govt Cloud; Dennis Reilly Comments

    Gigamon has launched its visibility platform on Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud environment to help public sector organizations manage and secure sensitive data and regulated workloads. Gigamon said Tuesday the availability of the Visibility offering builds on the company’s push to offer first-to-market services in the AWS Cloud as well as efforts to achieve a public sector […] More

  • Genius SIS Debuts Training Mgmt Tool on AWS Govt Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Genius SIS Debuts Training Mgmt Tool on AWS Govt Cloud

    Genius SIS has launched its training management system on Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud region in an effort to help U.S. government agencies register, track and report on their training programs. Plantation, Florida-based Genius SIS said Wednesday the addition of its Student Information System on GovCloud will support customers’ compliance with government security requirements. AWS meets the Federal Risk and Authorization Management […] More

  • Box Gets DISA Impact Level 4 Provisional Authorization for Cloud Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Box Gets DISA Impact Level 4 Provisional Authorization for Cloud Platform

    Box has received authorization from the Defense Information Systems Agency to host impact-level 4 data workloads for the Defense Department through the company’s cloud platform. The provisional authority-to-operate approval allows the use of Box’s cloud offering for the management of controlled unclassified data at DoD, the company said Wednesday. Box began an evaluation and authorization process to meet […] More

  • Druva Cloud Data Protection Tech Gets FedRAMP 'In Process' Designation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Druva Cloud Data Protection Tech Gets FedRAMP ‘In Process’ Designation

    Druva‘s cloud-based data protection technology offering has received “in process” status under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The designation is for the Druva inSync platform and reflects the company’s commitment to meet federal government security requirements for data availability management and information governance across cloud applications, Druva said Tuesday. InSync is designed to support cloud application backup and archival, data compliance monitoring, […] More

  • Blackboard's Learning Mgmt System Now Available on AWS Govt Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Blackboard’s Learning Mgmt System Now Available on AWS Govt Cloud

    Blackboard has launched its learning management system in Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud (US) region in a push to help government agencies manage online learning programs in a cloud environment. Washington, D.C.-based Blackboard said Monday the availability of Blackboard Learn on AWS GovCloud will support Blackboard’s efforts to obtain Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program accreditation. Blackboard Learn is designed to provide virtual learning support […] More

  • Jive Software Gets FedRAMP ‘In-Process’ Status for Collaboration Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jive Software Gets FedRAMP ‘In-Process’ Status for Collaboration Platform

    Jive Software has obtained “in-process” designation under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud-based enterprise collaboration platform. NASA sponsors Jive’s efforts to complete and secure FedRAMP certification later this year for the collaboration tool, the company said Monday. The company’s collaboration platform will feature a key-based encryption, restricted production access, disaster recovery tools and […] More

  • AWS' Govt Cloud Platform Obtains FISMA Authorization From VA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS’ Govt Cloud Platform Obtains FISMA Authorization From VA

    Amazon Web Services has received authorization from the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide the AWS GovCloud platform for highly sensitive government workloads. The company said Friday VA issued a Federal Information Security Management Act High General Support System authority to operate as well as a FISMA Moderate GSS ATO for AWS GovCloud. The FISMA High ATO permits VA to continue using GovCloud […] More

  • AWS Enters Agreement With Plano, TX to Provide GovCloud to City Agencies, Police - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Enters Agreement With Plano, TX to Provide GovCloud to City Agencies, Police

    Amazon Web Services and the city of Plano, Texas, have entered into an agreement to give local government and law enforcement agencies access to the company’s U.S. government cloud platform. AWS said Monday the Criminal Justice Information Services agreement works to enable Plano’s city government and police department to use AWS GovCloud (US) to utilize encryption and other features […] More