Brian Conrad, acting director of the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), pointed to the program’s service re-use progress over the past year at an Oct. 20 ATARC event, including a 60 percent jump in re-use by Federal agencies of approved cloud services over the past year.
The 11-year-old FedRAMP program is administered by GSA and provides a standardized, government-wide approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services used by Federal government agencies…
“The big number that I want to stick with you today is the number 4,607,” Conrad said. “That is the total number of reuses, or total number of instances of reuse, that our cloud products have had in total since the beginning of the program.”
“Just to give you a little context, that’s 60 percent higher than the number of last year,” he said. “So you can see the value of FedRAMP paid off through the amount of reuse that we’re getting across the board… Read the full article here.
