Cloud

Commerce Seeks Comment to Implement Trump Cybersecurity Order on Logging Foreign Actors  

The rule would require cloud providers to verify the identities of certain users. 

  • By Mariam Baksh

Biden Names His Pick for Permanent Defense CIO

John Sherman, currently serving in an acting capacity, will step down during the confirmation process.

  • By Brandi Vincent

Microsoft Takes Further Action Over NSA Cloud Contract

The tech company filed a supplemental protest.

  • By Frank Konkel

Automation Is the Key to Continuous Cybersecurity Compliance 

Manually updating spreadsheets to manage the security of cloud offerings isn't going to cut it.

  • By Abheek Sen

How NIH’s Research-Driving, Centralized Hub for COVID-19 Patient Data is Evolving

Scientists are drawing insights via an enclave of patient records from 7.6 million individuals.

  • By Brandi Vincent

The State of the Federal Cloud

In this ebook, Nextgov looks at major cloud computing efforts across the civilian and defense space.

  • By Nextgov Staff

Biden Administration Releases Draft Zero-Trust Guidance

The documents form a roadmap for agencies to deploy the cybersecurity architectures by the end of fiscal 2024.

  • By Aaron Boyd

5 Steps to Protecting Federal Data Repositories in the Cloud

From ransomware to exfiltration, cybersecurity attacks are targeting sensitive government data. Here’s a reliable approach to protecting mission-critical information.

  • By George Kamis

Survey: Most Organizations Embrace Hybrid Cloud 

In a survey of U.S. and U.K. IT decision makers, three out of four reported onboarding a new cloud provider during 2020.

  • By Frank Konkel

NSA Cloud Capabilities See Boost Under New Billion-Dollar Contract with HPE

It’s leaning into an as-a-service experience.

  • By Brandi Vincent

Developing a Holistic Approach to Multicloud Security

To be effective, a multicloud security strategy needs to provide end-to-end protection that gives agencies visibility across hosts and services.

  • By Vimesh Patel and Maafu Shabaz

Building Resiliency into the Future of the Federal Government

Creating a digital workplace that enables government users to work virtually from anywhere with the productivity, personalization and security they need is vital to digital resiliency.

  • By Cameron Chehreh

What a Top Secret Cloud Means for Microsoft

A commercial platform announced last year is now generally available to government customers.

  • By Brandi Vincent

Agriculture Launching New IT System to Manage Discrimination Complaints

The new Civil Rights Management System will live in a USDA-owned and operated cloud environment.

  • By Aaron Boyd
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Dissecting FedRAMP for Containerized Applications

Five essential things federal programs need to know.

  • By Hayden Smith

NSA Awards Secret $10 Billion Contract to Amazon

Much of the NSA’s most prized intelligence data may be moving to the cloud.   

  • By Frank Konkel

Two Keys to Delivering Exceptional Citizen Experiences

The infrastructures many government agencies had in 2019 weren’t built to handle the amount of traffic organizations experienced during the pandemic.

  • By Brandon Shopp

Augmentation for Data-Driven Success

Augmentation techniques can help the Defense Department implement its data strategy goals.

  • By Craig Heartwell

CISA Stands Up Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative

The effort includes partnerships with several major tech companies.

  • By Frank Konkel

Advisory Details How to Defend Container Tech from Crypto Miners

Old fashioned data theft is still the main reason adversaries are targeting a popular open-source application management system.

  • By Mariam Baksh

Federal Push for Omnichannel Experiences to Deliver Modern Public Service

An omnichannel experience is more than plugging texts, email or video communications into a program.

  • By Justin Herman