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How FedRAMP supports
digital transformation
Secure cloud services are essential for improving collaboration and citizen engagement
IT MODERNIZATION IS a journey, not a destination, for federal agencies. It’s a digital transformation
that can improve an agency’s cross-channel communications, business processes and web services for citizens. Cloud services keep this journey moving smoothly, but what happens when security slows down your progress?
The FedRAMP program ensures that your agency’s digital transformation doesn’t lose steam. The marketplace
of authorized solutions indicates cloud providers capable of meeting your federal
cybersecurity standards. You’re never done with innovation and security. Having cloud services in a FedRAMP environment makes it easier to adopt the advances in both.
Cloud, meanwhile, enables data analytics, electronic forms and signatures, web conferencing, and other useful tools. Applications like these ultimately help agencies better serve the public.
FedRAMP makes it easier to adopt these digital transformation solutions in an accredited environment. That environment has implemented, documented and tested a large collection of security controls that
make it easier for IT organizations to then trust that their services are being delivered in a safe, secure and privacy-aware way.
Cloud’s flexibility also means that it adapts to changes in security, services and technology. Secure cloud enables better citizen outreach, digital asset and rights management, and web conferencing for agencies.
All of the agencies that are pursuing digital transformation solutions can more quickly adopt them when they’re delivered through the cloud. The alternative is updating the existing applications running in a data center and going through the security gauntlet again.
FedRAMP additionally enables secure digital and electronic signatures for agencies. Adobe’s digital and electronic signature solutions let your agency respond faster and sign contracts with citizens quicker. Constituents, meanwhile, no longer need paper documents for signing forms.
It’s not just moving from paper to
digital forms but making sure that those experiences are available on a wide variety of devices — smartphones, tablets, smart screens and home devices. It’s also making sure that electronic correspondence and statements can be delivered securely online.
Programs like FedRAMP enable broader digital transformation such as improved cross-channel communications and modernized forms and web experiences.
Jonathan Benett is technical director for digital government solutions at Adobe.
You’re never done with innovation and security. Having cloud services in a FedRAMP environment makes it easier to adopt the advances in both.
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