EMERGING TECHNOLOGY
Databricks | October 17, 2022
Databricks, the lakehouse company, today announced that it has received a FedRAMP® Authorized status from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program's Program Management Office (FedRAMP® PMO) for its Cloud Service Offering (CSO) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) at a Moderate impact level, strengthening the Databricks Lakehouse capabilities for the U.S. federal government. This further validates the use of Databricks by federal agencies and contractors, who can now consolidate their data, analytics, and AI with the Databricks Lakehouse Platform to improve the business of the government.
FedRAMP® program was created to accelerate the U.S. federal government's adoption of secure cloud solutions and includes an independent third-party assessment organization (3PAO) performing an assessment of the following:
Implementation of the 325 FedRAMP® Moderate NIST SP 800-53 controls to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of customer data
Vulnerability management practices by conducting independent vulnerability scans
Cloud service security by performing independent penetration testing
"We're excited to see Databricks' Lakehouse Platform achieve this authorization, reinforcing our commitment to cloud security and the public sector, It has been a pleasure to partner closely with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) team on this endeavor. With this FedRAMP® authorization, CMS and other federal customers have the ability to replace legacy data islands with the market leading federated lakehouse, accelerating digital transformation, and driving strategic initiatives. In addition, we're looking forward to continuing to build upon our partnership with AWS as Databricks' presence in the public sector accelerates with this important milestone."
-Jude Boyle, Vice President of Public Sector at Databricks.
AWS is committed to working with partners to help customers operate more predictably, securely, and efficiently, said Jeff Kratz, General Manager of AWS Worldwide Public Sector Partners. We are pleased Databricks achieved the FedRAMP® authorization. This will help ensure U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies can more securely run their mission critical applications to take full advantage of the cloud's agility and cost savings.
About Databricks:
Databricks is the lakehouse company. More than 7,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform to unify their data, analytics, and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, and MLflow, Databricks is on a mission to help data teams solve the world's toughest problems.
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EMERGING TECHNOLOGY,CYBERSECURITY
IronNet | December 06, 2022
IronNet, Inc. (NYSE: IRNT), an innovative leader Transforming Cybersecurity Through Collective DefenseSM, announced today it has been prioritized by the United States Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) to pursue a Provisional Authority to Operate (P-ATO) from the Joint Authorization Board (JAB).
FedRAMP is a government-wide program that promotes the adoption of secure cloud services across the federal government by providing a standardized approach to security and risk assessment for cloud technologies and federal agencies. As the primary governance and decision-making body for FedRAMP, the JAB is comprised of the Chief Information Officers from the Department of Homeland Security, General Services Administration, and Department of Defense.
“Prioritization to pursue a P-ATO is an important step towards expanding the deployment of the IronNet Collective Defense platform into more federal agencies. As cyber attacks become increasingly more sophisticated, any organization that is still attempting to defend its networks alone is accepting unnecessary risk, Our unique Collective Defense platform includes advanced behavioral analytics and leverages a sophisticated expert system to reduce false positives in order to defend against global cyber attacks. We’re committed to the FedRAMP process to deliver this protection to government agencies at scale as we continue working together to strengthen our nation’s cyber defense.”
-General (Ret.) Keith Alexander, CEO and Founder of IronNet.
The goal of the FedRAMP program is to grow the use of secure cloud technologies in use by government agencies and enhance the framework by which the government secures and authorizes cloud technologies. IronNet is pursuing FedRAMP High certification to help protect the government’s most sensitive, unclassified data in cloud computing environments.
The IronNet Collective Defense platform, powered by AWS, identifies anomalous behaviors and delivers actionable attack intelligence to all the other participants in the IronNet community. The Collective Defense platform serves as an early warning system for all participating companies and organizations, strengthening network security through correlated alerts, automated triage, and extended hunt support.
About IronNet, Inc:
Founded in 2014 by GEN (Ret.) Keith Alexander, IronNet, Inc. (NYSE: IRNT) is a global cybersecurity leader that is transforming how organizations secure their networks by delivering the first-ever Collective Defense platform operating at scale. Employing a number of former NSA cybersecurity operators with offensive and defensive cyber experience, IronNet integrates deep tradecraft knowledge into its industry-leading products to solve the most challenging cyber problems facing the world today.
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EMERGING TECHNOLOGY, GOVERNMENT BUSINESS
Appvance | October 10, 2022
Appvance and Peraton have entered into a collaborative partnership to accelerate the software testing process for federal government agencies. The partnership will focus on supporting digital transformation initiatives within government agencies, updating their digital operations and capabilities for better efficiency and responsiveness, and ultimately delivering improved quality and user experiences that better meet their organizational missions.
"We're excited to include Appvance IQ, an AI-driven autonomous continuous testing platform, as a new technology within the cloud and application services that we can offer to our federal customers, The addition of AIQ as a solution in our offerings will help our customers approach quality and user experience more strategically. The combined solutioning will elevate the effectiveness of software development activities, as well as improve release velocity."
-Gary Wang, Vice President, Cloud & Application Services at Peraton.
Peraton is doing exciting work helping its customers transform their application delivery capabilities and achieve mission success. We're delighted to be partnering with them to serve the federal government, said Appvance CEO Andre Liao. It's gratifying that such a large, impactful IT innovator would select AIQ as a key AI/ML technology to help ensure their customers' quality engineering success.
Federal customers that engage with Peraton to support their Digital Transformation efforts—particularly those looking to eliminate process inefficiencies and bottlenecks in their software development lifecycle—will be able to choose to license AIQ as part of their customized solution. The Peraton/Appvance collaboration will assist customers with implementing the platform as well as supporting the transition to faster release cycles and more focused quality efforts.
About Appvance:
Appvance is the technology leader in AI-driven test generation and autonomous testing, revolutionizing software quality. The company's premier product, Appvance IQ™ (AIQ), helps enterprises improve the quality, performance and security of their applications, all while transforming the ability of their development organizations to meet the demands of the increasing speed and frequency of software releases. AIQ provides organizations the intelligence they need to test what matters most, providing businesses confidence that they are delivering great experiences to their users.
About Peraton:
Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, citizen security, health, and state and local markets. Every day, employees do the can't be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.
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