The final policy guidance for the cloud security program known as FedRAMP is still a few weeks away from coming out, but the General Services Administration continues its aggressive refresh of the 13-year-old effort.
GSA launched two new initiatives to continue to relieve some of the burdens of getting cloud services authorized under the Federal Risk Authorization and Management Program (FedRAMP) that contractors and agencies have long-complained about.
Eric Mill, the executive director of cloud strategy at GSA, said the agile delivery pilot will choose about 20 contractors to test out how to use secure software delivery approaches to accelerate the “significant change request” process, which essentially is an approval gate for cloud providers to add new features or capabilities to a FedRAMP authorized service.
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