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Since early this year, Microsoft added significant new features to Office 365 Government that streamline many functions you deal with daily in your government office. One of the newest ones is an update to the software’s Project Online feature. Now you can add more projects than ever before, something you probably need as demands increase....
This week, FedRAMP published a weekly tip that addresses common mistakes made by Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). Q: What are some common mistakes that arise when addressing Control Implementation statements? A: There are several mistakes that CSPs encounter when drafting their Control Implementation statements. Some of those include: Customer Responsibility The customer specific responsibility should...
I had the pleasure of hosting a session at SharePoint Saturday Baltimore 2017. It was very well attended. In fact, it was sold out! I saw some old friends and met some new ones too. My Presentation I made a session presentation at the event entitled, “Office 365 Advanced Security Hardening with cFocus Software”. In...
Latest Update (May 20, 2017) Looks like the WannaCry threat has been thwarted! According to USAToday.com the WannaCry ransomware attack was disabled over the weekend. Please see the full story here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/05/13/22-year-old-wannacry-ransomware-malwaretech-analyst-stopped/101637152/. What is WannaCry Ransomware? If you haven’t heard yet, there’s a brand new ransomware threat that is spreading very rapidly. It’s called WannaCry...
Now is the time to move to Azure Government and reap the rewards of cloud technology including the ability to scale up or down quickly, pay only for what you use, and save on compute power. Whether you’re moving a few workloads, migrating your datacenter, or deploying new virtual machines (VMs) as part of your...
Can An Azure Government Chatbot Reduce Email Traffic? Microsoft is really pioneering some exciting technology right now! Earlier this week, Microsoft and the City of Los Angeles unveiled CHIP, an Azure Government chatbot whose name stands for “City Hall Internet Personality”. CHIP runs in the Microsoft cloud. It resides on Los Angeles’s Business Assistance Virtual Network (BAVN), and...
How Does a FedRAMP P-ATO Reduce The Lead Time For A Cloud Migration? Federal government agencies want to move to the cloud, but they don’t know where to begin. There are many questions around that need to be answered: “Which cloud service provider should I choose?” “How do I meet all of the cybersecurity requirements and...
cFocus Software was a Platinum Sponsor at SharePoint Fest DC 2017 for the second straight year. As usual, it was a very highly populated event with over 600 registered attendees! We unveiled our new booth for the first time, and I was very happy with the way it looked! More importantly, we met quite a...
Using either Office 365 Government or Azure Government can give your governmental office a huge boost in finally obtaining top-tier cloud technology. As an example, those of you in the U.S. Government Community for Office 365 are able to enjoy new features announced this last January. If you’re just now starting to use Office 365...
For quite a while, Power BI was only available in Office 365 through a commercial edition that brought some of the best features available for organizing data. As a business intelligence cloud service, it’s already helped many commercial businesses aggregate, visualize, and share all the data they have. In government, though, data is a far...