Lauren Knausenberger, director of cyberspace innovation at the U.S. Air Force, said the service is developing methods to speed up the accreditation of software-as-a-service applications to handle controlled unclassified information, FedScoop reported Thursday.
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The Defense Logistics Agency intends to continue partnerships with industry to move applications to the cloud, Federal News Network reported Friday. Officials want to move 90 percent of all apps and systems to the commercial cloud in the coming years.
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Department of Veterans Affairs officials told attendees at the 2019 HIMSS Conference in Orlando, Fla., that the department launched an application interface to improve its services, Government CIO Media reported Monday.
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The General Services Administration has secured a budget from the Technology Modernization Fund to move its payroll system and human resource functions to a commercial cloud-enabled Software-as-a-Service product. The TMF Board said Monday that GSA’s system is “in serious need of modernization.” With the funding, the agency will migrate all of its 21,000 users to the NewPay payroll system, establish a new work schedule and leave the management system integrated into the new payroll platform.
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Sean Roche, associate deputy director at the CIA’s digital innovation directorate, has said he thinks cloud is more secure than a client service system since “encryption runs seamlessly on multiple levels,” NextGov reported Friday. Roche said Wednesday at Amazon Web Services‘ Public Sector Summit that in addition to security, cloud …
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A survey conducted by Deloitte and Government Executive Media Group‘s research arm shows that 69 percent of federal employees say they need access to cloud platforms for work. Deloitte said Tuesday it commissioned Government Business Council to poll a random sample of 536 federal employees from over 29 defense and federal …
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The General Services Administration‘s Technology Transformation Service has challenged ethical hackers to identify vulnerabilities within the agency’s government website development platform as part of a “bug bounty” program, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Laura Gerhardt, a TTS technical lead, said at FCW’s cybersecurity summit that the organization initially opened the Federalist web tool to a …
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The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has begun to seek public comments on the updated “tailored” baseline that seeks to accelerate the authorization of low-risk, software-as-a-service cloud platforms. FedRAMP said Thursday it will accept public feedback through July 28 with a plan to release the final version of the Tailored baseline …
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The General Service Administration‘s Technology Transformation Service has launched a bug bounty program that will offer incentives for independent researchers who can identify security vulnerabilities in TTS-operated software. GSA’s 18F organization said Thursday the agency awarded HackerOne a contract to provide a software-as-a-service bug reporting platform and help set up bug bounties for various TTS …
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The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has pushed back from March 17 to April 24 the deadline for public comments on the proposed baseline that seeks to expedite the authorization of low-risk, software-as-a-service cloud platforms. FedRAMP said Monday it decided to extend the public feedback period for the Tailored baseline in response …
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