Cloud & Virtualization

FedRAMP Is Too Complicated, Not Secure Enough

InformationWeek: The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), meant to ensure secure federal government cloud use, isn't adding the security it was intended to provide. Its complicated procedures are sometimes keeping it from living up to expectations, according to a MeriTalk survey.

MeriTalk, a public/private partnership that publishes IT best practices for the federal government, released the results of its FedRAMP survey earlier this week. The survey, conducted online in April 2016, received responses from 150 federal IT leaders responsible for cloud decisions in their organizations. The majority of respondents (79%) said they were frustrated with the system, while 59% said they would consider implementing a cloud service for their agency that was not FedRAMP compliant.

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