{"id":66321,"date":"2015-02-02T17:06:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T17:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/esri-managed-cloud-services-emcs-achieves-fedramp-moderate-compliance\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:04:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:04:25","slug":"esri-managed-cloud-services-emcs-achieves-fedramp-moderate-compliance","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/esri-managed-cloud-services-emcs-achieves-fedramp-moderate-compliance","title":{"rendered":"Esri Managed Cloud Services (EMCS) achieves FedRAMP Moderate compliance"},"author":6431,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24081,24071],"industry":[],"product":[],"class_list":["post-66321","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ssamymlgp","tag-security"],"acf":{"short_description":"On January 29th, 2015, the Esri Managed Cloud Services (EMCS) achieved FedRAMP Moderate compliance. This milestone provides assurance to ...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>On January 29<sup>th<\/sup>, 2015, the Esri Managed Cloud Services (EMCS) achieved <a href=\"http:\/\/cloud.cio.gov\/fedramp\/esri\">FedRAMP Moderate compliance<\/a>. This milestone provides assurance to customers that EMCS aligns with today\u2019s latest rigorous security controls required for cloud systems at the moderate impact level (<a href=\"http:\/\/cloud.cio.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/files\/FedRAMP%20Control%20Quick%20Guide%20v2.0.pdf\">specifically FedRAMP Rev. 4 Baseline<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>EMCS enables customers to quickly leverage the full ArcGIS Platform in a secure\/compliant cloud environment. The GIS services within EMCS are provisioned through ArcGIS for Server and Portal for ArcGIS.<\/p>\n<p>The EMCS offering can be utilized in a stand-alone capability or hybrid deployment incorporating ArcGIS Online. If ArcGIS Online FISMA Low security is considered not adequate for a given customer, or if they want to utilize specific geospatial capabilities only available in ArcGIS for Server, supplementing an ArcGIS Online implementation with EMCS is a viable option.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond this, EMCS provides these key security benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>24\/7 Security Operations Center for monitoring and threat detection<\/li>\n<li>An Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to detect malicious activity<\/li>\n<li>Continuous security monitoring of log data through a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform that is reviewed by security experts<\/li>\n<li>A Web Application Firewall (WAF) to mitigate against common web application attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS)<\/li>\n<li>FIPS 140-2 compliant encryption for data-in-transit and data-at-rest<\/li>\n<li>A hardened network and virtual machine environment utilizing advanced inbound\/outbound firewall traffic rules<\/li>\n<li>Mandatory continuous application, system and database vulnerability scans<\/li>\n<li>Yearly vulnerability assessment, penetration testing and security control reviews by an accredited Third Party Assessment Organization (3PAO)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about FedRAMP Moderate, visit the official <a href=\"http:\/\/cloud.cio.gov\/\">FedRAMP site<\/a>. Additionally, you may want to view the <a href=\"http:\/\/cloud.cio.gov\/fedramp\/esri\">official listing<\/a> of the EMCS package. \u00a0Alternatively, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/esri-news\/releases\/15-1qtr\/esri-managed-cloud-services-achieves-federal-security-milestone\">press release<\/a> for this milestone can also be viewed.<\/p>\n<p><em>-The Security Standards and Architecture Team<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p>Esri Managed Cloud Services Achieves Federal Security Milestone (press release):\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/esri-news\/releases\/15-1qtr\/esri-managed-cloud-services-achieves-federal-security-milestone\">http:\/\/www.esri.com\/esri-news\/releases\/15-1qtr\/esri-managed-cloud-services-achieves-federal-security-milestone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EMCS FedRAMP Moderate official listing: <a href=\"http:\/\/cloud.cio.gov\/fedramp\/esri\">http:\/\/cloud.cio.gov\/fedramp\/esri<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EMCS Security page on Trust site:\u00a0<a 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