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Certification and Accreditation: Total Cost of Ownership
White Papers Xacta has done more to streamline and automate the Certification and Accreditation (C&A) process than any other solutions provider. This paper shows how Xacta solutions can significantly reduce the cost of C&A compliance.
[August 30, 2005, 3:00]
Healthcare Accreditation Agency Triples Sales With Customer Relationship Solution
White Papers COLA is a physician-directed, nonprofit agency whose mission is to help clinical laboratories comply with federal regulations through a program of education, consulting, and accreditation. Once every two years, the organization surveys...
[March 3, 2009, 23:00]
Guide for the Security Certification and Accreditation of Federal Information System
White Papers Security certification and accreditation are important activities that support a risk management process and an integral part of an agency's information security program. Developed through an extensive public review process, the document represents...
[January 5, 2005, 2:00]
Family Assurance Uses Pointsec Protector to Underpin FAST Accreditation
White Papers The Family Assurance team wanted to take a proactive stance and use a sophisticated technology solution to ensure that the company did all that it could to promote good practice through accreditation from the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST).
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
ICT suppliers face national accreditation
News The National Computing Centre is to accredit suppliers of ICT services, in an attempt to increase buying confidence among business customers. Its scheme, Accredit UK, will recognise suppliers that have the right skills, business processes and...
[November 23, 2006, 12:21]
Red Hat adds needed RHCT certification
News Red Hat made headlines recently when it introduced its new Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT) accreditation. The company's Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) designation is about to celebrate its fourth anniversary, yet that top-level accreditation...
[December 6, 2002, 12:07]
Red Hat adds needed RHCT certification
News Red Hat made headlines recently when it introduced its new Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT) accreditation. The company's Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) designation is about to celebrate its fourth anniversary, yet that top-level accreditation...
[December 6, 2002, 19:18]
Continuous JCAHO Compliance: Responding to the 2006 Unannounced Survey Policy Within the Environment of Care
White Papers As part of its overall accreditation process, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) uses a specific set of standards to evaluate the physical plant and safety in healthcare facilities.
[May 4, 2006, 10:17]
BT to sell Cisco storage technology
News According to the UK telecoms firm, which recently won Cisco's Advanced Technology Partner Accreditation, it is the first company to offer the storage solution in the UK. The product was launched in July by Cisco, but BT only received Cisco's...
[October 11, 2004, 18:00]
Microsoft proposes Sender ID to jam spam
Talkback Once Sender-ID is commonplace, accreditation services will become the next anti-spam frontier. Unknown (or new) domains would probably be considered guilty before proven innocent - hence possible requirements for new domains to sign up with...
[June 28, 2004, 17:46]
Open-source firm accredited for schools
News The open-source service provider, Sirius, said on Monday that it had gained accreditation after successfully tendering to be included in Becta's 'Software Licensing Framework. Sirius's accreditation to the Becta framework means schools can choose...
[September 24, 2008, 14:26]
Brazil says 'no' to Office Open XML
News Microsoft is pushing for the Office Open XML (OOXML) document standard to be fast tracked for ISO accreditation. However, the Brazilian Technical Standards Organization (ABNT), which is one of the 55 members of the ISO committee that decides...
[August 24, 2007, 16:35]
Icann enforcement put to the test
News Verio, a Web hosting and Internet access company, has called on the domain name systems management body to terminate its accreditation of Register.com, a large domain name registrar. As part of their accreditation agreements with Icann, Register...
[January 9, 2001, 9:40]
Government to certify security kit
News The CSIA accreditation is aimed at government and even home users," said Simon Milford, business development manager for LogicaCMG, who are providing testing labs for CSIA. The scheme is still in its infancy, but CSIA, which is prioritising tests...
[April 7, 2005, 17:15]
MPs reject international security standard
News He said: "We have no plans at present to seek accreditation to BS7799 but the philosophy and best practice elements within the standard form an important part of our approach. While many businesses adhere in principle to BS7799, few firms actually...
[August 8, 2003, 9:45]
Most MoD systems miss gov't security target
News In the reply, Ainsworth wrote that 58 percent of IT systems at the ministry and its agencies have been through the security accreditation process laid out by the government a year ago. The other 31 percent have conditional or interim accreditation...
[January 14, 2009, 16:20]
The IOC gives the Web a sporting chance
News The respect they gained within the IOC as a whole did as much as anything to get them Winter Olympics accreditation. Online players have never received IOC accreditation until now. The online sports media is set to receive a boost this week when...
[February 4, 2002, 10:11]
Critics brand OOXML a Microsoft 'marketing tool'
News Microsoft's behaviour in pursuing ISO fast-track accreditation included encouraging Microsoft partners to join the national standards bodies that feed into ISO to vote in favour of OOXML. Tim Bray, the writer of XML, wrote in his blog on Thursday...
[April 18, 2008, 17:00]
Cisco increases IP telephony certification
News Cisco began its effort in January when it introduced the Cisco IP Telephony Support Specialist accreditation. With a CCDA in hand, you then must pass two exams to earn Cisco IP Telephony Design Specialist accreditation:
[June 9, 2002, 20:20]
E-Gif aims to make government interoperable
News The National Computing Centre, an independent membership organisation set up to promote effective use of IT, and the Institute of IT Training, the world's first professional body for IT training, have jointly won a £1.2m deal to run an...
[May 12, 2004, 12:30]
