The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced on Tuesday that it is the first Federal agency to submit its Open Security Assessment Language (OSCAL) format System Security Plan (SSP) to the General Services Administration (GSA) – far ahead of the White House’s July 2026 deadline to do so. […]

Federal technology officials on Thursday said that while the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) has its limitations, they are hopeful that coming changes to the program will provide improved risk visibility. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) need to collect consistent cost data so they can provide a cost estimate to Federal agencies and cloud service providers (CSPs) pursuing Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorizations, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). […]

Illumio Government Cloud has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Authorization to Operate (ATO) at the Moderate Impact Level under the sponsorship of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, the Zero Trust Segmentation (ZTS) company announced on Sept. 5. […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is calling on industry to join its new Digital Authorization Package pilot – launched on Wednesday – and to submit public comments on the many changes coming to FedRAMP. […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) has appointed Pete Waterman as the program’s new director. […]

Top tech officials at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the General Services Administration (GSA) on Thursday called for more public feedback on a proposed set of metrics that would measure the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorization experience, which they say will drive “major decisions” in shaping the program going forward. […]

Federal CIO Clare Martorana emphasized today that recent and ongoing changes to the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) are central to making progress on some of the Biden administration’s top government technology goals. […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) announced this week that it is moving away from defining different tiers of authorizations and toward one designation of “FedRAMP Authorized.” […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is looking for feedback on a proposed policy update to how it applies Federal cryptography standards to cloud providers. […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is looking for public feedback on a proposed set of metrics that would measure the end-to-end FedRAMP authorization experience. […]

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) wants to expand its use of authentication services that employ the Login.gov sign-on service developed by the General Services Administration (GSA), but the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) said in a July 23 report that IRS is facing security hurdles in that process.   […]

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released long-awaited guidance today to overhaul the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), replacing the existing policy created for the program when it began in 2011. […]

Eric Mill, executive director for cloud security at the General Services Administration (GSA), offered a preview today of planned staffing additions at the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) program office that GSA runs. […]

A top official with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Thursday that generative AI (GenAI) tools used within the Federal government should be risk-evaluated, but that there would be limitations to a program similar to the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) for GenAI. […]

A top official from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said today that the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is quickly increasing the number of products on its FedRAMP Marketplace, thanks to its recent codification and new pilots to help shorten the review process. […]

Rep. Gerry Connolly, D.-Va., said today that he’s eager to see Federal agencies – including the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the General Services Administration (GSA) – make more progress on implementing the FedRAMP Authorization Act approved by Congress late in 2022. […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) launched a new agile delivery pilot program this week rooted in iterative development and customer engagement. […]

Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., said today that his office is planning to issue the 18th version of the congressional FITARA Scorecard sometime in September. […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) published its final Emerging Technology Prioritization Framework on Thursday, detailing which generative AI capabilities will be the first to be prioritized. […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is looking into using AI technologies to reduce the time necessary to review and assess authorization packages. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) today unveiled the roster of its new Technical Advisory Group (TAG) created to “help inform decision-making on the technical, strategic, and operational direction” of GSA’s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) that evaluates and authorizes cloud products and services used by Federal government agencies. […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Secure Cloud Advisory Committee (FSCAC) voted today to focus on two main priorities over the next year to make the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) easier to use and able to provide more rapid certifications of cloud products and services. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) today unveiled the roster of its newly created governing board of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) that provides a government-wide approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services used by Federal government agencies. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) has named Lawrence Hale chairman of the Federal Secure Cloud Advisory Committee (FSCAC) that it launched in early 2023 to follow through on  legislation approved by Congress in 2022 to codify the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) into law. […]

As the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) works to modernize the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), one OMB official said this week that the agency is looking to scale the FedRAMP Marketplace and create new authorization paths. […]

Tom Kennedy, vice president of Axonius Federal Systems, said on April 16 that the company expects to receive FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) authorization for its hosted service offering for the Federal government in the near term. […]

Despite Congress recently rescinding $100 million in funding for the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF), a top TMF official today shared that none of the fund’s current projects are at risk from that move, and that the TMF Board plans to soon announce awards for  several additional AI-driven projects. […]

Brian Conrad, the former acting director of the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), joined Zscaler today as its new head of global compliance, authorizing authority liaison. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA)’s new roadmap for its Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is pivoting to look more at the “whole customer journey,” a GSA official said this week. […]