US government increases financial assistance to Fiji

fbcnews | February 03, 2020

The United States has pledged to increase its financial assistance to Fiji and ten other regional countries in areas that needs serious attention. USAID Mission Director to the Pacific, Lawrence Hardy made the announcement saying this year’s allocation will double when compared to the past few years. The US government’s assistance known as the Pacific Pledge aims to improve the standard of living among other pressing issues in the region. The Mission Director highlighted as part of their approach to the Pacific Pledge and the pacific region several other US government agencies are expected to provide new funding and support in the near future. Since 2017, the US government has helped the region to identify and mobilize US$81M from international climate financing sources for investment in the Pacific islands including here in Fiji.

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stackArmor Supports MicroStrategy in Getting FedRAMP Authorization to Operate

stackArmor | December 22, 2022

stackArmor, Inc., a leading provider of Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP®), Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA), CMMC 2.0, and StateRAMP security & compliance acceleration solutions, announced today that it has advised MicroStrategy, in gaining FedRAMP authorization of the MicroStrategy Cloud for Government cloud service offering built on a high-performance cloud-native Kubernetes architecture. FedRAMP promotes the adoption of secure cloud services across the federal government by providing a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for commercial cloud products and services. For over 10 years, the experts at stackArmor have been guiding cloud service providers through the process of meeting government compliance standards, including FISMA, FedRAMP, and standards set by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). "We created the ThreatAlert® Security Accelerator solution to help our customers reduce the time and costs associated with achieving complex Government mandated requirements like FedRAMP authorizations, MicroStrategy's FedRAMP Marketplace listing is a testament to our continued focus in helping commercial ISVs and SaaS providers meet complex government security and compliance requirements." Gaurav 'GP' Pal, Chief Executive Officer, stackArmor. About stackArmor stackArmor delivers cloud security, compliance, and managed services solutions to commercial and government customers. Based in the Washington D.C. metro area, the company is a specialist in providing security acceleration solutions for meeting FedRAMP and other Government-centric security frameworks. Its ThreatAlert® Security Accelerator includes advisory, cybersecurity engineering, package documentation, and continuous monitoring solutions for customers in regulated markets such as government, the public sector, defense, space, aerospace, healthcare, and education.

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