White House launches cloud computing security standards
Grazed from Washington Business Journal. Author: Jill R. Aitoro.
After two years of development, the Office of Management and Budget officially launched a program Thursday that establishes uniform security requirements that contractors will have to meet to sell their cloud solutions to the federal government.
Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel sent a memo to all agency CIOs requiring that they use the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program when purchasing cloud services. FedRAMP, as it’s known, establishes a set of approved, minimum security controls that cloud services will have to meet, as well as an assessment process for authorizing these services under the program…