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As part of its FISMA cloud offering for civilian Federal agencies, GovDataHosting delivers a full set of operational, management and technical controls according to NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 – Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations.

GovDataHosting accelerates the initiation phase by streamlining accreditation. Our team utilizes:

Administered by the GSA, the government-wide FedRAMP program provides a standardized approach to cloud service adoption and management. Agencies and their supporting contractors are required to adhere to FedRAMP security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring benchmarks. If your organization is developing a SaaS solution for government, you will be responsible for achieving this level of federal compliance.

Your agency has just committed to a cloud transition. Makes sense. This year more government organizations are turning to the cloud to more efficiently operate, better serve the public, and reduce operating costs. But what happens next?

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a federal laboratory within the U.S. Department of Commerce that works to refine and more precisely define measurements, metrics, technologies, and standards. From two hubs in Gaithersburg, MD, and Boulder, CO, NIST employs over 3,400 scientists, engineers, and technicians to work alongside thousands of associates from industry and academia to research, test, and recommend improvements to measurements and technologies.

The threat could be external or internal, a malicious hacker or a busted water pipe. Your core business functions could make you a prime target for sabotage, or your office could sit squarely on a fault line. All organizations face threats. What separates the prepared from the unprepared? An IT disaster recovery plan.

These days, business is done in the cloud. But the more that we operate, launch applications, access information, and collaborate in the cloud, the more that we potentially expose ourselves and our companies to risk. Cloud security is the answer to these threats, but a lot is not known (or is widely misunderstood) about cloud security. From data privacy to reputational damage, we’ve compiled a few of the things everyone needs to know about cloud security.