FedRAMP Enlists Industry Vet To Oversee Clouds
June 10, 2014
Grazed from EnterpriseTech. Author: George Leopold.
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has appointed a tech industry veteran to help oversee its uneven cloud rollout. Jennifer Kerber, former president of the industry group TechAmerica Foundation and most recently executive director of the Government Transformation Initiative, will join GSA’s Office of Citizens Services and Technologies as director of its Federal Cloud Credential Exchange program.
Kerber’s move to GSA was first reported by the web site federalnewsradio.com. The GSA exchange is working with agency partners that include the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology that its developing security standards for the federal cloud initiative FedRAMP, or Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program…
The exchange allows the public to access cloud-based federal online services without passwords or other digital identification for various agency services. The Federal Cloud Credential Exchange acts as a software "middleman" to make it easier for individuals to log into federal web sites using their own credentials obtained from an approved external service provider…
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