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Cyber

IT Companies Partner For Cloud Software Authorization Service

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, August 24th, 2017

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IT Companies Partner For Cloud Software Authorization Service

Telos Corporation and Sequoia Holdings Inc. have entered a partnership to streamline the process of authorizing software used on the intelligence community’s commercial cloud.The agreement, announced on Tuesday, brings together Telos’ Xacta 360 automated cloud compliance system with Sequoia's automating infrastructure environment. The partnership is meant to help the evaluation of potential independent software vendors (ISVs) before their products are onboarded into the Amazon [AMZN] Web Services’ (AWS) commercial cloud services (C2S) cloud for use by organizations such as the CIA…

Congress

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Congress

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Congress

All Future Systems Should Have Autonomy Features, Reed Says

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Congress

Senate Appropriators Concerned With DoD’s Reconciliation Plan For Top FY ‘27 Priorities, Aide Says

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