According to FedScoop, OMB policy change could cause headaches for FedRAMP.

According to a June 3, 2015 FedScoop story, the Office of Management and Budget has circulated draft revisions to the government-wide policy governing information resources management. Some agency executives say that these revisions could add unnecessary layers of bureaucracy to an already lengthy and costly cloud certification process

Baan Alsinawi is now a CCSP.

Baan Alsinawi, founder and president of TalaTek, LLC, is now a Certified Cloud Security Professional – CCSP.

The CCSP credential is designed for experienced information security professionals with at least five years of full-time IT experience, including three years of information security and at least one year of cloud security experience.

TalaTek attends 12th Annual Qualys Security Conference.

On October 16th and 17th, 2014 TalaTek attended the 12th annual Qualys Security Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference connected customers with Qualys engineers and leading industry experts. In addition, Qualys architects unveiled many new groundbreaking technologies which they are building into their Unified Cloud Security and Compliance Platform.

Baan Alsinawi, TalaTek founder and president, featured presenter at ISACA Governance, Risk and Compliance conference.

On October 21, 2014, ISACA held an all-day conference on Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) in Arlington, VA. The conference was created to provide CIOs, risk-management groups, system administrators, and security and audit professionals the opportunity to explore and discuss new trends, perspectives, solutions and leading practices.