Government Cloud

Sera-Brynn has been accredited as an independent third party assessment organization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The 3PAO certification authorizes Sera-Brynn to evaluate cloud service providers’ compliance with FedRAMP requirements, the cybersecurity audit and advisory firm said Tuesday. Heather Engel, Sera-Brynn chief strategy officer, said the 3PAO designation will help the company expand its service […] More

Onapsis and the Cloud Security Alliance have formed a new working group to oversee the development of best practices designed to help organizations securely move Oracle, SAP and other enterprise resource planning applications to the cloud. CSA and Onapsis said Thursday they will work with chief information security officers from Deloitte, IBM and other technology […] More

SAP National Security Services has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer a set of cloud-based human capital management platforms to federal agencies. The SAP NS2 Secure Node with SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite – DoD is a set of software-as-a-service-based talent management, learning management, workforce analytics and talent acquisition tools, the company said […] More

FireEye has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer a cloud-based email security service offering to federal agencies. The FedRAMP moderate-impact level authorization seeks to facilitate the adoption of FireEye Government Email Threat Prevention by federal agencies to protect against email-based attacks as they move to cloud environments, the company said Tuesday. FireEye […] More

The Commerce Department has issued a request for information to gather input on Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-certified cloud service providers and vendors that can support the migration of mission-critical applications to the cloud. The department said in a FedBizOpps notice published Tuesday it envisions a potential contractor to migrate and manage applications to a FedRAMP-approved […] More

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has posted a request for information on large U.S.-based infrastructure-as-a-service providers that can help develop technologies to host sensitive workloads on public cloud. IARPA said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice that it seeks to create a classified-as-a-service platform that will support the secure processing of classified government data on […] More

Engility has joined a nonprofit consortium that aims to develop and promote strategies to secure cloud computing infrastructure in organizations. The company said Wednesday it plans to leverage the Cloud ASCEND platform and cyber and modernization experience to support the Cloud Security Alliance’s mission. Cloud ASCEND comprises commercial cloud tools and a proprietary methodology intended to help an […] More

Avtex has joined Microsoft‘s Cloud Solutions Provider program to market and support hosted Azure services for public sector customers. Microsoft’s Cloud Solutions Provider program for Azure Government offers an opportunity for member companies to help government clients address mission requirements with the cloud computing platform, Avtex said Monday. Tom Keene, general manager for Microsoft Azure, said the CSP program […] More

The American Association of Laboratory Accreditation and the management office of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program have accredited Deloitte as a FedRAMP third-party assessment organization. Deloitte said Thursday that it will conduct independent third-party assessments on commercial and public cloud service providers that seek to offer cloud-based services for the federal government. 3PAO […] More

A subsidiary of enterprise software developer NICE has applied for Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for a cloud-based contact center software platform under the sponsorship of a government agency. NICE inContact said Thursday it aims to deliver Customer Interaction Cloud software to customer agencies that seek to replace their on-premises platforms or implement contact center technology for the first time. InContact is currently […] More

Dell Technologies’ Virtustream business has teamed up with Pivotal to deliver an enterprise-grade cloud service offering to clients that use the Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform to build and field applications in hybrid cloud environments. Kevin Reid, president and chief technology officer at Virtustream, said in a statement released Wednesday the Virtustream Pivotal Cloud Foundry Service offering […] More