FedRAMP TIC overlay pilots to answer questions around agency, cloud provider responsibilities

Sep 25

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The FedRAMP program office, which aims to accelerate the authorization of cloud computing technologies at federal agencies, has been working with the Homeland Security Department on a Trusted Internet Connection, or TIC, overlay that would allow a cloud service provider to come out of the FedRAMP authorization process with not only cloud security approvals, but also TIC certification. This would allow agencies to check two compliance boxes through a single process.

Comments on the draft TIC overlay were due May 1, and for the past six months, the CIO Council’s Cloud TIC Interagency Working Group has been working with cloud service providers, or CSPs, to determine how to best meet the FedRAMP TIC overlay capability requirements, according to a Sept. 18 blog post. The working group’s four pilots test varying cloud service models and unique computing scenarios, says the CIO Council post.

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