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As the Defense Department and Congress strive to streamline clumsy Authorization To Operate (ATO) procedures for software, the Pentagon also needs more computing infrastructure to test and experiment with new code.
In a recent decision from the Force Development Authorizing Official Decision Brief, HTX Labs' EMPACT was granted ATO on USAF Network at IL4 security level.
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The FedRAMP Program Management Office is seeking comments on its draft FedRAMP Authorization Boundary Guidance, Version 2.0, released on July 13, 2021. The public comment period currently is open and closes on September 13, 2021. An authorization boundary is defined in the National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST") Special Publication ("SP") 800-37, Risk Management Framework for Information Systems and Organizations, as "all components of an information system to be authorized for o...
FISMA, or the Federal Information Security Management Act, is a U.S. federal law passed in 2002 that seeks to establish guidelines and cybersecurity standards for government tech infrastructure, and in so doing protect government information and operations. The law was modified in 2014 to put more emphasis on continual monitoring with the passage of the similarly named Federal Information Security Modernization Act; generally, discussions of FISMA refer to the set of regulations established by both these laws. Like most federal cybersecurity laws, FISMA constitutes a complex set of rules th...