This week’s episode covers a new Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk, the final DFARS provision on contract closeout, a new SBA decision involving a mentor-protégé joint venture, and a FedRAMP update, and is hosted by partners Peter Eyre and Olivia Lynch. Crowell & Moring’s “Fastest 5 Minutes” is a biweekly podcast that provides a
FedRAMP
Byte-Sized Q&A: Tell me about FedRAMP
By Kate M. Growley, CIPP/G, CIPP/US & Lee Matheson CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPP/A, CIPM on
Posted in Cybersecurity, Podcast

In this episode, host Kate Growley is joined by Lee Matheson as they discuss the basics of the FedRAMP process. Crowell & Moring’s “Byte-Sized Q&A” podcast takes the complex world of government contracts cybersecurity and breaks it down into byte-sized pieces.
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FedRAMP Issues First Provisional Certification to Cloud Contractor
By Kate M. Growley, CIPP/G, CIPP/US & Gordon Griffin on
Posted in Cybersecurity

Just before the closing bell for 2012, the federal government gave its first approval for government-wide security authorization to a cloud service provider. On December 26, the General Services Administration (GSA) certified its first cloud service provider under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, more commonly known as FedRAMP. The GSA expects last month’s …