Federal IT Leaders Want Cloud Vendors to Provide Clarity
January 23, 2015
Grazed from CIO. Author: Kenneth Corbin.
If you’re a cloud service provider, the federal government wants to hear from you. Federal agencies are actively shopping for new cloud computing technologies, but vendors will help their cause by packaging their services to be more readily implemented in a government environment that is highly security conscious and almost preternaturally cautious about rolling out new IT systems.
The feds have been developing a system for streamlining the security requirements for cloud service providers (CSPs). Under the FedRAMP program, vendors can submit their cloud service for a review by an inter-agency panel to gain clearance to operate across the government, or can seek approval of a single department or agency…
One of the early adopters of the FedRAMP program was the Department of Health and Human Services, which granted the government’s first agency-specific approval of a cloud service to Amazon in 2013…
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