Certification and Accreditation
This is the blog for MindPoint Group's Information Security & Privacy (ISP) division. We hope to use this to contribute to and debate ideas among the ISP community.24
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2016
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2016
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2015
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2015
Choosing a 3PAO: FedRAMP, Cybersecurity & Cloud Expertise are Vital
As a direct result of the Cloud First policy, the Federal Government is spending more time, money, and effort on cloud procurement services than ever before. Currently, there are only 38 FedRAMP compliant Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) in a market that is projected to grow to $6.4 billion by 2019. For the time being, this
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2015
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2015
FedRAMP Compliance – Is it worth it?
If you are a company with a cloud service, there are likely quite a few questions you are asking yourself about your pursuits in the Federal market. When will the upward trajectory of cloud adoption begin? What agency will be the next to migrate to the cloud? What technologies will be migrated? As you move
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2010
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2010
Current State of FISMA Part 1: FISMA-bashing
When it comes to FISMA we have seen two things: Over the last 8 years the federal government has spent an incomprehensible amount of money on security (whatever that means). People have railed against it as a stupid waste of time and an impediment to real security (again, whatever that means). One of the