The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) intends to standardize language in government contracts with cloud service providers to clarify terms with regard to security liability, Nextgov reported Wednesday.
Read More »OMB Aims to Build Up Federal Cybersecurity With New Memo on High Value Asset Program
The Office of Management and Budget has issued a memorandum that seeks to build up the Department of Homeland Security’s High Value Asset program to strengthen the cybersecurity posture of federal agencies. OMB Director Mick Mulvaney said Monday the memo outlines actions across six areas such as the establishment of enterprise HVA governance, implementation of data-driven HVA prioritization and privacy protection.
Read More »GAO Examines Use of Cloud Service-Level Agreements at 5 Federal Departments
The departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services, Treasury and Homeland Security use service level agreements to procure cloud computing services from the private sector, according to a Government Accountability Office report. GAO said Thursday it reviewed a total of 21 cloud SLAs from those five departments in order to determine …
Read More »DISA to Limit Mailbox Size for Pentagon’s Enterprise Email; John Howell Comments
The Defense Information Systems Agency will start to limit uniformed personnel’s mailbox sizes for Defense Department enterprise email on Oct. 1, the Army said Monday. DISA will cap email storage to 512 megabytes for basic class users and 4 gigabytes for business users in compliance with the DEE service level …
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