Senate Homeland Security Republicans question potential foreign interference in GSA’s FedRAMP program

General Services Administration officials defended the FedRAMP program’s ability to securely authorize cloud service offerings for federal use, during a Senate Homeland Security roundtable Tuesday where they faced questions over the possibility of “foreign-backed actors” infiltrating weaknesses on government cloud systems.

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has “weaknesses” that “have left it vulnerable to foreign-backed actors target[ing] cloud systems that would include China and Russia,” Homeland Security ranking member Rob Portman (R-OH) said at the start of the...