CSC Platform as a Service Cloud Offering Achieves FedRAMP Certification
November 10 2015 - 10:30AM
Business Wire
First Secure, Open Source Platform as a Service
for U.S. Public Sector Agencies
CSC (NYSE:CSC) today announced that its cloud ARCWRX Platform as
a Service (PaaS) offering has received Federal Risk Authorization
Management Program (FedRAMP℠) certification. The ARCWRX Platform
was built on OpenShift™ by Red Hat™ and was certified in
collaboration with Veris Group, LLC. This marks CSC's second
FedRAMP certification for the ARCWRX PaaS offering.
ARCWRX, which resides on CSC’s FedRAMP-approved ARC-P™ platform,
is the first true open source PaaS to meet strict standards for
highly classified data and the necessary security control standards
required for a FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board (JAB) Provisional
Authority to Operate.
“ARCWRX provides public sector agencies an accredited, secure,
cost-effective and agile cloud environment," said John DeSimone,
vice president and general manager of CSC’s North American Public
Sector. “By leveraging Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS environment, CSC
can offer a path to open source technology for our U.S.-based
government customers to optimize ever-evolving cloud
technologies."
The ARCWRX PaaS offering is built on OpenShift by Red Hat. CSC
designed, tested and certified the application development and
runtime platform to meet all necessary federal security control
standards. Red Hat and CSC have worked in tandem to deliver ARCWRX
on premises and from the CSC government community cloud, creating a
more highly secure, cost-effective service for the federal
government.
“We’re committed to developing services to help our customers
achieve the highest level of security to support their missions,”
said Paul Smith, general manager and vice president, Public Sector,
Red Hat. “Achieving FedRAMP Moderate JAB authorization for ARCWRX
demonstrates this commitment and the power of collaboration with
CSC to further drive value for our public sector customers.”
As the FedRAMP Third Party Assessment Organization (3PAO), Veris
Group conducted the assessment for ARCWRX against the rigorous
FedRAMP Moderate security control baseline. This assessment also
included comprehensive penetration tests of the platform and
extensive vulnerability scans (operation systems, network devices,
databases and web applications) of all inventoried assets. Veris
Group also conducted the 3PAO assessment for ARC-P that resulted in
first ever FedRAMP accreditation back in 2012.
“We’re excited to be involved in yet another successful FedRAMP
engagement with the CSC team,” said Michael Carter, vice president
of Veris Group’s Governance, Risk, and Compliance organization.
“The dedication of the CSC team throughout the assessment, along
with their constant emphasis on security, enabled us to complete
our assessment faster than originally anticipated.”
ARCWRX represents an important evolutionary step for application
teams wanting to build and run cloud native applications in
autoscaling containers, thereby ensuring apps are more portable,
are more secure and include inherent DevOps automation that helps
reduce time to deployment.
About CSC
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) is a global leader of next
generation information technology (IT) services and solutions. The
Company's mission is to enable superior returns on our clients’
technology investments through best-in-class industry solutions,
domain expertise and global scale. CSC has approximately 70,000
employees and reported revenue of $11.3 billion for the 12 months
ended October 2, 2015. For more information, visit the company's
website at www.csc.com.
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Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)Carol MeyersCommunications
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RelationsCSC Corporate862-228-3481radamonis@csc.comorGeorge
PriceDirector, Investor RelationsCSC
Corporate703-641-3842investorrelations@csc.com
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