According to a report from Nextgov, the State Department is searching for a small business that could help them with its Cloud Program Management Office, which will serve as the department’s central organizing office for all its cloud activities. “The office implements and sustains an enterprise cloud ecosystem to provide the full range of business solutions to end users and shared service providers leveraging multiple ‘best in breed’ commercial cloud vendors. The office manages the development, delivery and operations of new and existing enterprise cloud services,” the department stated in its sources sought notice posting on beta.SAM.gov. The notice lists five tasks that could be part of the final solicitation: management of infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and software-as-a-service platforms; development of cloud-ready application; support for IT collaboration; assistance for IT budget reporting and administration; and provide special studies and expert services. The notice is also seeking feedback on whether 8(a)-certified contractors can perform these tasks.
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Washington, D.C.'s Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking has disclosed that 800GB of data claimed to have been stolen by the LockBit ransomware operation was obtained from an attack against third-party software provider Tyler Technologies following the ransomware gang's threats to expose 1GB of the exfiltrated data to coerce the agency into providing the demanded ransom, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.