Groklaw: Microsoft Cloud Services Aren't FISMA Certified

doperative writes with this excerpt from Groklaw: "If you were as puzzled as I was by the blog fight, as Geekwire calls it, between Google and Microsoft over whether or not Google was FISMA certified, then you will be glad to know I gathered up some of the documents from the case, Google et al v. USA, and they cause the mists to clear. I'll show you what I found, but here's the funny part — it turns out it's Microsoft whose cloud services for government aren't FISMA certified. And yet, the Department of the Interior chose Microsoft for its email and messaging cloud solution, instead of Google's offering even though Google today explains that in [actuality] its offering actually is. It calls Microsoft's FUD 'irresponsible.'"

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Re:Crowd pleasing article

[freakingme]

Groklaw is actually wrong on the basic fact of certification. Google Apps for Government is not FISMA certified and google itself has stated it hopes to get the certification "updated soon"

Groklaw is right on this. Google Apps has been FISMA certified, and as such Google Apps for governments is too since it's the same platform. What they want to have updated is the explicit mention of 'google apps for govs' which is currently not in the certs.

Re:Getting worse by the minute

[TubeSteak]

Now it's really starting to look like some serious BS was going on.

A lot of government procurement involves someone writing a list of requirements that can only be met by one company.
Sometimes it happens at the agency level, sometimes the requirements are attached to congressional appropriations.
Either way, it happens. A lot.