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Cyber

Higher Security Baseline, Continuous Monitoring Next Priorities For Fed Cloud Program

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, July 9th, 2014

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Extending the security baseline and moving to continuous monitoring of cloud service providers are among the top priorities for the federal cloud program over the next two years, its administrator said. “I’m looking out about two years. Where should the program be? I’m in that sustainment period,” Maria Roat, administrator for FedRAMP at the General Services Administration (GSA), said at the Federal Cloud Computing Summit in Washington Wednesday. Currently, FedRAMP only approves cloud providers at low to moderate security impact…

Army

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