Cloud Security & The Feds


Proposed FedRAMP effort would make it easier for federal agencies to overcome compliance hurdles and participate in the Obama administration's drive toward the cloud.

In an move that could accelerate the federal government's shift toward cloud computing, an inter-agency working group is developing a unified, government-wide risk management program that should greatly decrease the amount of security work agencies need to do to get up and running on cloud services.

Security has been one of the major barriers to the government's adoption of cloud computing, and the proposed new effort, currently called the Federal Risk and Authorizatation Management Program Pilot, or FedRAMP, would allow agencies that sign up for a new, centralized approach to solving thorny security problems like certification and accreditation.....read more

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