It was an IT bombshell heard ’round the Beltway this week. Google lacks Federal Information Management Act (FISMA) certification for its cloud-based “Google Apps for Government” product. The bombshell ...

Google has suddenly found itself in hot water, exposed - by Microsoft, no less - for being a "liar, liar" when it comes to the security certification it has been touting for its Google Apps for ...

Microsoft's suite of hosted business applications for government -- its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) F-- has recieved FISMA certification, Microsoft officials said on April 20. The ...

Microsoft is calling out Google, its key cloud computing competitor, claiming that Google Apps for Government isn't up to snuff and doesn't have Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) ...

Google on Monday denied an allegation by rival Microsoft that it lied about an important government certification. But an analyst with experience in dealing with the federal government, and its ...

Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite for governments (BPOS-Federal) has received Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) certification. Microsoft also announced that, due in part ...

Update: Google responds. Please see the bottom of the post. According to recently unsealed legal documents, Google appears to be promulgating falsehoods. At least according to Microsoft’s reading of ...

BPOS-Federal, which includes Exchange Online, SharePoint online and Office Communications online, was FISMA-certified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). FISMA certification, created in 2002 ...

When Microsoft called out Google for making misleading claims about FISMA certification, Microsoft was still working on getting its own stamp of approval from the government. Microsoft just today ...

Is Google Apps for Government certified under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)? The question has suddenly become the newest battleground for Google and Microsoft in their race ...

Documents unsealed last week by a federal court, and posted online by Microsoft this morning, show the U.S. government disputing Google’s claim that Google Apps for Government has received a coveted ...