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 »Smartsheet Gov Platform Gets FedRAMP Provisional Authorization; Ignacio Martinez Comments
Cloud-based work management system provider Smartsheet has received a provisional authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its Smartsheet Gov platform.
Read More »Microsoft Expands Azure Public Cloud Availability to FedRAMP High Baseline
Microsoft has expanded the availability of its public cloud computing services and regions in the U.S. from moderate to high impact level through a provisional authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.
Read More »GovDataHosting Gets FedRAMP Provisional ATO at High Impact Level
GovDataHosting, a division of IT-CNP, secured provisional authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program's High baseline to manage cloud computing infrastructure for federal customers.
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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. …
Read More »Veris Group Concludes FedRAMP High-Impact Level Assessment of 3 New AWS GovCloud (US) Services
Veris Group, which now operates under cyber risk management services provider Coalfire, has completed the review of three additional service offerings within Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud (US) platform as a third-party independent assessment organization for AWS under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Coalfire said Tuesday the Amazon CloudWatch Logs, …
Read More »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, …
Read More »Microsoft Gets FedRAMP Board Approval to Add 8 Services to Azure Govt Cloud’s P-ATO Certification Scope
Microsoft has added eight service offerings to the Azure Government cloud platform’s provisional authority-to-operate certification coverage under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The company said Wednesday it secured clearance from FedRAMP’s Joint Authorization Board to add the services to the cloud’s P-ATO at the “high impact level.” The …
Read More »InfoReliance Receives AWS GovCloud (US) Skill Program Designation; John Sankovich Comments
Amazon Web Services has recognized InfoReliance for its efforts to manage and operate workloads in the AWS GovCloud (US) cloud platform. InfoReliance received the AWS GovCloud (US) Skill Program status to acknowledge the former company as a consulting partner under the AWS Partner Network program, InfoReliance said Friday. John Sankovich, executive …
Read More »Dell’s IaaS Cloud Offering Gets FedRAMP Provisional Authorization
Dell Services Federal Government has received a provisional authority-to-operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Joint Authorization Board to offer an infrastructure-as-a-service cloud to public sector customers. FedRAMP JAB granted the Dell Cloud for US Government platform a moderate impact level P-ATO on Thursday. DCG is designed for federal, state, local and tribal agencies as well …
Read More »QTS, Virtustream Enter Cloud Hosting & Compliance Services Partnership
QTS will host two Virtustream Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-compliant cloud platforms in QTS data centers in Texas and Virginia as part of a newly formed agreement between the two companies. QTS said Thursday it will also deploy Virtustream’s Viewtrust system, which works to provide risk identification, mitigation and compliance automation as part of …
Read More »Microsoft, AWS, CSRA Near FedRAMP High Baseline Certifications for Cloud Platforms
Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and CSRA are in the process of securing high baseline certifications for their cloud platforms under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, Federal Times reported March 21. Aaron Boyd writes the cloud service providers are scheduled to receive their authorizations in April following their involvement in …
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