FedTech Magazine

When the FedRAMP Program Management Office launched its 20x pilot last year, Persona, an identity verification platform, was already deep into the traditional Rev5 authorization process. Rather than picking one track, the company decided to run both in parallel — an unusual and demanding choice that few cloud service providers have attempted. "It was intense, to say the least," ...

The Air Force just made one of its largest enterprise software bets: a departmentwide license agreement with Salesforce built around Missionforce National Security. Bill Pessin, senior vice president of national security at Salesforce, breaks down what it means for the Department of the Air Force’s operations, where autonomous AI agents fit in and why this approach could become ...

The rise of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models capable of identifying software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed may require a new level of coordination between government agencies, technology vendors and critical infrastructure operators, says Eric Wenger, senior director of cyber and emerging technology policy in Cisco's Global Government Affairs organization. "...

Federal zero-trust efforts have largely focused on securing human users through identity, authentication and access controls. But inside agency environments, a growing amount of network activity now comes from nonhuman identities (NHIs) such as service accounts, application programming interfaces and automated workloads that often operate with broad privileges and limited oversi...

In government, there’s a lot more to delivering on artificial intelligence initiatives than simply plugging in a graphics processing unit and going to work. “How are you training those models? How are you getting those models distributed out? How are you maintaining those models?” asks Ken Rollins, chief AI technology strategist at Dell Federal. A misstep here can derail an AI p...