Tag Archives: Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 12, 2017 — Amazon Web Services‘ (Nasdaq: AMZN) GovCloud (US) Region now supports Blackboard‘s learning management system as part of efforts to enable government agencies to utilize the cloud for online learning programs, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Blackboard said Monday the availability of Blackboard Learn on a cloud environment …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 31, 2017 — Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has secured provisional authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s High Baseline for nine services in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the Joint Authorization Board granted the P-ATO for AWS CloudFormation, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon …

Executive Mosaic, Tysons Corner, VA March 24, 2017 — Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware, has been chosen for this year’s Executive Mosaic Wash100 for his leadership in cloud and mobility platforms. The Wash100 is the premier group of private and public sector executives selected by Executive Mosaic’s …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 17, 2017 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has received authorization to operate its Azure Government cloud platform to support sensitive workloads at the Department of Veterans Affairs through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said in a blog post published Wednesday the FedRAMP …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 10, 2017 — The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s Joint Authorization Board has awarded Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) a provisional authority to operate three of the company’s GovCloud offerings, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Friday its Amazon Relational Database Service for MyZQL, Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) …

Cyber risk management services provider Coalfire has purchased Veris Group for an undisclosed amount in a push to grow cybersecurity offerings for the government and commercial sectors. The transaction will result in the creation of a combined firm that will work to provide security engineering support, consulting and assessment services to cloud service providers …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 15, 2016 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has unveiled that the Azure Blueprint platform for processing “authority to operate” designations is available to support the high baseline system of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. A company blog post published Tuesday said Azure Blueprint will …

Robert Day,  a retired U.S. Coast Guard rear admiral and former USCG chief information officer, has been appointed by Blackberry (Nasdaq: BBRY) to manage the mobile device maker’s new federal Cybersecurity Operations Center and Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program product initiatives. Day is a federal information technology and cybersecurity veteran who …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 21, 2016 — Wayne Lewandowski, vice president of federal operations at Vormetric, believes the combined functionalities of public and private clouds in cloud encryption gateways will work to help government agencies address security concerns regarding the use of third-party cloud service providers, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. He wrote in …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 10, 2016 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has expanded its Azure Government Cloud‘s provisional authorization-to-operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program with five new offerings, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The addition of Service Bus, Notification Hubs, Site Recovery, StorSimple and Backup brings the total number of FedRAMP high baseline-compliant …