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TABLE OF CONTENTS
RFP Signature Page ........................................................................................................... 1 Acknowledgement of Amendments .................................................................................. 4 Executive Summary............................................................................................................ 6 Prime Contractor: Carahsoft Technology Corp....................................................................................6 Mandatory Minimums......................................................................................................... 8 Business Profile................................................................................................................ 12 Organizations Profile........................................................................................................ 21 Technical Response......................................................................................................... 23 Confidential, Protected, or Proprietary Information..................................................... 183 Exceptions and/or Additions to the Standard Terms and Conditions........................ 185 In Summary..................................................................................................................... 186 Supplemental Information.............................................................................................. 187 SOLICITATION # CH16012
1 RFP SIGNATURE PAGE
The Lead State’s Request for Proposal Signature Page completed and signed. See Section 5.1 of the RFP.
Please find below Carahsoft’s RFP Signature Page below.
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4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF AMENDMENTS
Please find below Carahsoft’s Acknowledgement of Amendments.
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6 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The one or two page executive summary is to briefly describe the Offeror's Proposal. This summary should highlight the major features of the Proposal. It must indicate any requirements that cannot be met by the Offeror. The Lead State should be able to determine the essence of the Proposal by reading the executive summary. See Section 5.4 of the RFP.
Prime Contractor: Carahsoft Technology Corp.
Carahsoft Technology Corporation understands that the State of Utah & NASPO ValuePoint is seeking a Master Agreement for Cloud Solutions.
Carahsoft has assembled a team from our vast portfolio of over 200 hundred vendors that includes our premiere network of cloud solutions, resellers, and subcontractors as the best solution to meet the State of Utah’s requirements. The intent of our proposal is to deliver the highest value proposition at the lowest possible cost to the State of Utah, NASPO ValuePoint, & all participating entities for the acquisition of cloud solutions. Carahsoft understands the need for high quality cloud based service providers that have the ability to provide a menu of cloud solution offerings. Carahsoft’s superior contract management and network of Cloud Solution Providers will ultimately increase the State & Participating Entities overall efficiency, reduce costs, improve operational scalability, provide business continuity, increase collaboration efficiencies, and all for expanded flexibility.
Carahsoft Technology Corp. is an IT solutions provider delivering best-of-breed hardware, software, and support solutions to federal, state and local government agencies since 2004. Carahsoft has built a reputation as a customer-centric real-time organization with unparalleled experience and depth in government sales, marketing, and contract program management. This experience has enabled Carahsoft to achieve the top spot in leading software license GSA resellers.
VENDOR RELATIONSHIPS – Just as each state, territory, and participating entity is unique in how they employ cloud solutions, Carahsoft’s cloud offering follows a unique business model focusing on providing superior sales and marketing execution, a track record of success, high integrity, and a focus on strategic vendor relationships.
PROVEN EXECUTION (Growth and Experience of Sales) – Carahsoft has been supporting the IT needs of Government and Education Customers for more than 12 years. Our Public Sector Sales Team supports the Government, Education, and Healthcare vertical markets and is an enormous component of Carahsoft’s ongoing and continued growth. In 2014, Carahsoft had revenues of over $2B in the public sector market.
Our State & Local Government Sales Force is solely dedicated to supporting the unique needs of Higher Education, K‐ 12 Schools, State Government, and Local Government customers.
CONTRACT VEHICLES – Over the past ten years Carahsoft has acquired and maintained a wide variety of purchasing contract vehicles for agencies at the state, local, and federal levels. Carahsoft holds statewide contracts in many states across the country, and we have a great deal of experience with contract transitions. Associated with all contracts are dedicated and experienced contract management resources.
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7 Carahsoft has leveraged its vast contracting experience and extended it to quoting and order management.
Carahsoft seamlessly generates quotes within 30 minutes or less and processed over 56,000 orders in 2014 that were each completed the same day received.
GROWTH & STABILITY – Carahsoft has continued to show impressive growth year after year, turning annual revenue from $3.4 million in our first year in 2004 to $1.065 billion in 2011, $1.465 billion in 2012, $1.8 billion in 2013, and $2.45 billion in 2014. In September of 2014, 7,501 orders were processed worth over $626 million. We are a stable, conservative, and profitable company and have received numerous accolades including the 2013 GovCon Government Contractor of the Year Award in the greater than $300M revenue category. Carahsoft was also recognized in the following areas:
Largest GSA Schedule 70 Contract holder for software
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th of the Washington Business Journal’s 100 Largest Private Companies List for 2014
2012 Federal 100 Winner, Craig P. Abod, President and CEO 2013 Federal 100 Winner, John Lee, Vice President of Cloud Services As a part of this response Carahsoft has utilized multiple Cloud Solution Vendors, covering all of the Cloud Solution Categories; SaaS, IaaS, PaaS. Carahsoft’s strong vendor relationships and partner ecosystem have created an efficient and cost effective response which encompasses all vendor solutions into a single, easy to utilize vehicle. While the technical requirements of each solution vary, Carahsoft strives to consolidate these specifications and responses into a cohesive unit.
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8 MANDATORY MINIMUMS
This section should constitute the Offeror’s point-by-point response to each item described in Section 5 of the RFP, except 5.1 (Signature Page) and 5.4 (Executive Summary). An Offeror’s response must be a specific point-by-point response, in the order listed, to each requirement in the Section 5 of the RFP.
5.1 – Signature Page
Proposals must be submitted with a vendor information form, located on Bidsync as an attachment to the RFP, which must contain an ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN signature executed in INK OR AN ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE, and be returned with the Offeror’s proposal.
Please find Carahsoft’s Signature Page completed above.
5.2 – Cover Letter
Proposals must include a cover letter on official letterhead of the Offeror. The cover letter must identify the RFP Title and number, and must be signed by an individual authorized to commit the Offeror to the work proposed. In addition, the cover letter must include:
5.2.1 A statement indicating the Offeror’s understanding that they may be required to negotiate additional terms and conditions, including additional administrative fees, with Participating Entities when executing a Participating Addendum.
5.2.2 A statement naming the firms and/or staff responsible for writing the proposal.
5.2.3 A statement that Offeror is not currently suspended, debarred or otherwise excluded from federal or state procurement and non-procurement programs.
5.2.4 A statement acknowledging that a 0.25% NASPO ValuePoint Administrative Fee and any Participating Entity Administrative fee will apply to total sales for the Master Agreement(s) awarded from the RFP.
5.2.5 A statement identifying the service model(s) (SaaS, IaaS, and/or PaaS) and deployment model(s) that it is capable of providing under the terms of the RFP. See Attachment C for a determination of each service model subcategory. The services models, deployment models and risk categories can be found in the Scope of Services, Attachment D. Note: Multiple service and/or deployment model selection is permitted, and at least one service model must be identified. See Attachment H.
5.2.6 A statement identifying the data risk categories that the Offeror is capable of storing and securing.
See Attachment D and Attachment H.
Please find above Carahsoft’s Cover Letter addressing these requirements.
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9 5.3 – Acknowledgement of Amendments
If the RFP is amended, the Offeror must acknowledge each amendment with a signature on the acknowledgement form provided with each amendment. Failure to return a signed copy of each amendment acknowledgement form with the proposal may result in the proposal being found nonresponsive.
Carahsoft acknowledges all amendments. Also please find below Carahsoft’s Acknowledgement of Amendments form completed.
5.4 – Executive Summary
Offerors must provide an Executive Summary of its proposal. An Executive Summary should highlight the major features of an Offeror’s proposal. Briefly describe the proposal in no more than three (3) pages. The evaluation committee should be able to determine the essence of the proposal by reading the Executive Summary. Any requirements that cannot be met by the Offeror must be included.
Please find above Carahsoft’s Executive Summary addressing these requirements.
5.5 – General Requirements
5.5.1 Offeror must agree that if awarded a contract it will provide a Usage Report Administrator responsible for the quarterly sales reporting described the Master Agreement Terms and Conditions, and if applicable Participating Addendums.
Carahsoft agrees that if awarded a contract they will provide a Usage Report Administrator responsible for quarterly sales reporting described in the Master Agreement Terms and Conditions, and if applicable Participating Addendums.
5.5.2 Offeror must provide a statement that it agrees to cooperate with NASPO ValuePoint and SciQuest (and any authorized agent or successor entity to SciQuest) with uploading an Offeror’s ordering instructions, if awarded a contract.
Carahsoft agrees to cooperate with NASPO ValuePoint and SciQuest (and any authorized agent or successor entity to SciQuest) with uploading Carahsoft’s ordering instructions, if awarded a contract.
5.5.3 Offeror must at a minimum complete, provide, and maintain a completed CSA STAR Registry SelfAssessment. Offeror must either submit a completed The Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ), Exhibit 1 to Attachment B, or submit a report documenting compliance with Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM), Exhibit 2 to Attachment B. Offeror must also represent and warrant the accuracy and currency of the information on the completed. Offerors are encouraged to complete and submit both exhibits to Attachment B.
For ease of access and evaluation, Carahsoft has provided these Assessment documents under separate cover. All copies have been submitted electronically per the instructions of the RFP. Please note that specific assessments have been labeled as confidential- additional information is provided in the Confidential, Protected, or Proprietary Information section.
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10 5.5.4 Offeror, as part of its proposal, must provide a sample of its Service Level Agreement, which should define the performance and other operating parameters within which the infrastructure must operate to meet IT System and Purchasing Entity’s requirements.
SERVICE LEVEL FRAMEWORK
The service levels (“Service Levels”) applicable to the Services specified in Sections 1 and 2 are set forth in Schedule B to this SD (“Service Levels for Cloud Platform Services”). The framework that governs all Service Levels is set forth in this Section.
Commencement of Service Levels
Commencing thirty (30) days from the Service Start Date (as set forth in the applicable Order Form), Virtustream’s performance of the Services will meet each applicable Service Level. If Virtustream’s performance of the Services does not meet the applicable Service Level, then Virtustream will use commercially reasonable efforts to restore its performance to meet such Service Level.
Service Level Reports
Service Levels will be calculated and measured monthly by Virtustream on a calendar month basis and reported each month for the previous month. The reports will be provided to Customer by the tenth (10th) working day of the month following that to which such report relates, commencing on the second (2nd) month following the Service Start Date and each month thereafter. The monthly service level report will contain at least the following items: (i) Uptime statistics for the month concerned; (ii) an analysis of reported incidents over the previous month, broken down by type for discussion; (iii) action plans for items giving rise to concern; (iv) comments and observations on any issues arising from Virtustream’s performance monitoring activities; (v) recommendations on service delivery strategies to maintain or enhance the service level; and (vi) review of general business requirements (“Service Level Report”).
Cloud Platform Services (CPS) has its own specific service levels as described in this document. Cloud Cover Services (CCS) has service levels that pertain to the CCS offerings and are reported separately. Not all Virtustream customers have CCS but all Virtustream customers use CPS.
Service Level Review Meetings
Monthly Service Level review meetings will be conducted by Virtustream with Customer where the monthly Service Level report specified above will be discussed. If any of the Service Levels measured over the previous calendar month period is not achieved in that month, then Virtustream will include the steps taken to rectify the problem in the next monthly Service Level Report. In addition, the issue shall be an agenda topic for discussion at the next monthly service review meeting. Additionally, after restoring service or otherwise resolving any immediate problem as specified in this SD, if Virtustream fails to provide Services in accordance with the Service Levels, Virtustream shall:
a. Promptly investigate and report on the causes of such problem; b. Provide a Root Cause Analysis of such failure as soon as practical after such failure or at Customer’s request; c. Correct such problem that is Virtustream’s fault or responsibility, as soon as reasonably practicable and coordinate the correction of such problem if Virtustream does not have responsibility for the cause of such problem. d. Advise Customer of the status of remedial efforts being undertaken with respect to such problem; e. Demonstrate to Customer’s reasonable satisfaction that the causes of such problem (that is Virtustream’s fault or responsibility) have been or shall be corrected on a permanent basis; and f. Take corrective actions to prevent any recurrence of such problem (that is Virtustream’s fault or responsibility).
Root Cause Analysis
Promptly following Virtustream’s failure to meet a Service Level, Virtustream will perform a root cause analysis to determine the reason for that failure. Upon Virtustream’s determination of the cause of such failure, it will provide to Customer a preliminary report citing the cause of such failure. If Virtustream determines that the failure was due to Virtustream, an additional report will be provided that details the root causes of the failure, and which details any measures that should be taken to minimize the possibility that such failures will re-occur. Virtustream will correct the problem and use reasonable commercial efforts to minimize the re-occurrence of such failures.
Service Level Exceptions
Virtustream shall not be liable for any failure to meet the Service Levels, to the extent such failure was caused by one or more of the following:
a. A failure of Customer or any of its employees, agents or contractors (including any of Customer’s third party service providers) to perform any of its responsibilities under this SD; SOLICITATION # CH16012
11 b. Any act or omission of Customer or any of its employees, agents or contractors (including Customer’s third party service providers or other third parties acting on behalf of Customer); c. Any hardware, software or other product of a third-party or Customer equipment; d. Any failure of Customer to secure the proper access rights or maintenance and support services with respect to any component of the Services (e.g., hardware, software, network, maintenance) for which Virtustream does not bear operational responsibility;
e. Downtimes resulting from a Virtustream’s scheduled maintenance windows; f. Customer’s reprioritization of the tasks to be performed by Virtustream where such reprioritization causes Virtustream to miss a Service Level;
g. Viruses; provided that the infected Virtustream-provided system had virus protection for which the virus protection software updates were up to date;
h. An election by Customer to purchase a base commitment that is not sufficient to run Customer’s system (e.g., If a customer elects to size a µVM pool that is insufficient to run the designated workload); i. Issues occurring outside of standard working hours (as defined for business level customers) — for which the Service Level Objectives (SLOs) do not apply;
j. Cloud Cover Services (CCS) offerings — for which the Service Level Objectives (SLOs) do not apply; k. Resolution delays due to lack of client response and/or Customer provided credential based information; l. Priority levels not agreed upon by both customer and supplier; m. Claims of performance degradation not substantiated through Customer provided diagnostic testing results.
5.7 Recertification of Mandatory Minimums and Technical Specifications Offeror must acknowledge that if it is awarded a contract under the RFP that it will annually certify to the Lead State that it still meets or exceeds the technical capabilities discussed in its proposal.
Carahsoft acknowledges that if awarded a contract under the RFP that it will annually certify to the Lead State that it still meets or exceeds the technical capabilities discussed in this proposal.
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12 BUSINESS PROFILE
This section should constitute the Offeror’s response to the items described in Section 6 of the RFP. An Offeror’s response must be a specific point-by-point response, in the order listed, to each requirement in the Section 6 of the RFP.
6.1 – Business Profile Provide a profile of your business including: year started, organizational structure, client base (including any focus by region, market sector, etc.), growth over the last three (3) years, number of employees, employee retention rates (specific for employees that may be associated with the services related to the RFP) over the last two (2) years, etc. Businesses must demonstrate a minimum of three (3) years of experience providing cloud solutions for large scale projects, including government experience, to be eligible for award.
Carahsoft Technology Corp. was started in Reston, Virginia in 2004. Carahsoft remains headquartered in Reston Virginia employing over 500 people that specifically support the Public Sector (Federal, State, Local, and Public Funded Educational Entities Nationwide within the United States.) Carahsoft has built a reputation as a customer focused organization with depth of experience in government sales, marketing, and contract program management.
Carahsoft is one of the largest sellers of Cloud (including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS) to U.S. the Public Sector.
Carahsoft’s organizational structure allows for very focused and individualized support of any customer. The Executive Management team at Carahsoft is responsible for all aspects of day to day running of the organization.
Reporting to the Executive Management Team are Directors. It is the Director’s primary responsibility to oversee a particular technology area(s) and to monitor and manage all aspects of the staff, customers, and business within that area. An example of a Technology Area at Carahsoft is the VMware Virtualization practice. A host of technology offerings that use VMware at their core are supported by a single business unit overseen by a single Director that has reach back and access to the Executive Management staff. The Director’s are then supported by a group of Team Leads. Each Team Lead Oversees a business area (typically defined by customer type (i.e. State Customers) or technology type (i.e. Virtual Desktop). Each team lead oversees a staff that is responsible for executing and managing the activities within that business unit.
At its’ core, this organizational structure is lean and efficient, lacking layers of middle management, and empowering individuals with decision making capability in order to support all customers quickly an efficiently.
Carahsoft boasts an excellent employee retention rate. Specific benchmarks that we track include employee retention at 2 years of employment and 4 years of employment with rates of 65% and 90% respectively.
Carahsoft has been providing cloud solutions since opening its doors in 2004. US Public Sector entities have relied on Carahsoft to provide a wide variety of cloud technologies. Carahsoft serves as the cloud distributor and provides access to the core cloud technology with the core technology being supported by companies such as SalesForce, Google, ServiceNow, etc. Carahsoft currently support a state-wide implementation of Service Now’s cloud technology within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This implementation is known as the Enterprise Information Help Desk and manages all incident requests. Additionally, in 2013, Carahsoft has contracted with the State of Ohio to provide a cloud solution built around the technology from Salesforce. Ohios’ Department of Administrative Services has contracted for Carahsoft to provide a variety of services including Service Cloud, Radian6 and Marketing Cloud as well as others. Both the Ohio and Pennsylvania cloud solutions are still being provided to these organizations.
Contracts similar in scope and size of this NASPO Cloud RFP:
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13 California Multiple Award Schedule California CMAS 3-12-70-2247E Delaware Salesforce Contract Delaware SE-CLD-001
Florida Commercial-off-the-shelf Software Contract Florida COTS 43230000-14-01 Iowa Salesforce Contract Iowa 2015-BUS-004
Ohio Master Cloud Services Agreement Ohio MCSA-0016
Ohio State Term Schedule Ohio STS 534354
Texas DIR Salesforce Contract DIR-SDD-1793
Texas DIR Emergency Preparedness Contract DIR-SDD-2035
Texas DIR Software/SaaS Contract DIR-TSO-3149
VITA Desktop Productivity Software Contract VITA VA-140401-CARA
6.2 – Scope of Experience Describe in detail the business’ experience with government or large consortium contracts similar to the Master Agreements sought through this RFP. Provide the approximate dollar value of the business’ five (5) largest contracts in the last two (2) years, under which the Offeror provided Solutions identical or very similar to those required by this RFP. Government experience is preferred.
CONTRACT VEHICLES – Over the past ten years Carahsoft has acquired and maintained a wide variety of purchasing contract vehicles for agencies at the state, local, and federal levels. Carahsoft holds statewide contracts in many states across the country, and we have a great deal of experience with IT Master contracts accessible to numerous public agencies. Carahsoft has extensive experience in successfully launching, maintaining, and managing these contracts and projects over a wide range of government customers. The range of government projects include agency/ county/ city wide project, state-wide efforts, and multi-state contracts, as well as supporting projects that cross a wide range of Federal government customers. Examples of some of these projects include:
TEXServe Multi-jurisdictional Purchasing Program: Carahsoft promoted and managed the Texserve Contract-allowing the full VMware Products & Services portfolio to be procured by Texas K-12 Users at a discounted price.
TEXserve services including: VMware Technical Support, Pre-sales licensing configuration & design, contract promotion, ad hoc revenue reporting, and customer nurturing/ upsell campaigns. Carahsoft worked with Texserve, K-12 customers, to partner with a select number of VMware Premier and Enterprise Authorized Resellers utilizing their expertise under the Texserve contract.
ONENET Purchasing Consolidation: Carahsoft serves as the prime contractor and program manager for the ONENET contract serving the entire ONENET community providing the ability to procure VMware software (licensing/support) through a trusted network of strategic partners at a discounted rate. Carahsoft has a proven track record of providing the highest level of technical support while ensuring that members receive the proper software products and services conveniently under the ONENET Contract.
TX DIR Contract Sales: Carahsoft maintains a number of purchasing vehicles with the State of Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR.) 2014 DIR sales accounted for greater than $50M in revenues.
Carahsoft actively markets these contracts and has grown revenues at greater than 10% annually for the past 5 years.
Total GSA State & Local Sales: Carahsoft holds a US General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule 70 Technology Contract. This contract is open to State and Local agencies to purchase as a form of Cooperative SOLICITATION # CH16012
14 Purchasing. Carahsoft markets the availability of this contract to eligible users and maintains sales revenues to eligible State and Local entities at greater than $50M annually.
As a whole, Carahsoft’s five largest public sector contracts have totaled approximately $211,571,007 in sales in the past 2 years.
Carahsoft GSA Schedule GS-35F-0119Y $127,242,948.95
Texas DIR Emergency Preparedness Contract TX-DIR-SDD-2035 $ 39,007,058.19 Texas DIR BMC Contract TXDIR-SDD-1727 $ 15,734,306.68
Texas DIR Salesforce Contract TXDIR-SDD-1793 $ 14,876,679.26 Texas DIR Adobe Contract TX-DIR-SDD-2504 $ 14,710,013.43 Total Sales: $211,571,006.51
These contracts make up close to 2/3 of the total sales on contract that Carahsoft completed in that span. All of these contracts are currently in place with government entities.
6.3 – Financials Offeror must provide audited financial statements, of the last two years, to the State that demonstrate that an Offeror meets at a minimum Dun and Bradstreet (D&B) credit rating of 3A2 or better, or a recognized equivalent rating. Please provide the Respondent’s D&B Number and the composite credit rating. The State reserves the right to verify this information. If a branch or wholly owned subsidiary is bidding on this RFP, please provide the D&B Number and score for the parent company that will be financially responsible for performance of the agreement.
Carahsoft has deemed its audited financials to be considered confidential. Additional information is provided in the Confidential, Protected, or Proprietary Information section. For D&B report along with additional clarification, please see page 360 in the Supplemental Information Section.
6.4 – General Information
6.4.1 Provide any pertinent general information about the depth and breadth of your Solutions and their overall use and acceptance in the cloud marketplace.
Carahsoft has assembled a team from our vast portfolio of vendors that includes our leading premiere network of cloud solutions, resellers, and subcontractors as the best solution to meet the State of Utah’s requirements. They include:
AODocs, CA, DocuSign, FireEye, Google, QTS, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Virtru, Virtustream, VMware Carahsoft is submitting as the exclusive offeror for all Google, Salesforce, and ServiceNow solutions and services for the NASPO Cloud solicitation. These manufacturers have deemed Carahsoft as the prime contractor who can effectively and efficiently manage the NASPO cloud contract on their behalf.
As a part of this response Carahsoft has utilized multiple Cloud Solution Vendors, covering all of the Cloud delivery models; SaaS, IaaS, PaaS. Carahsoft’s strong vendor relationships and partner ecosystem have created an efficient and cost effective response which encompasses all vendor solutions into a single, easy SOLICITATION # CH16012
15 to utilize vehicle. While the technical requirements of each solution vary, Carahsoft strives to consolidate these specifications and responses into a cohesive unit. For example:
CA Technologies is a leader in IT Management Solutions in the industry. CA has be steadily moving its premier on premise management solutions to the cloud. CA Clarity Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) is one of the leading solutions used by state governments today.
Google’s SaaS offering, Google Apps, has been commercially available since 2006 and presently has ~5.3 million paying customers covering 26m+ end user licenses. Google Apps represents a combination of the most popular consumer products that have been prepared for Enterprise use through the means of adding Administrative and Compliance Controls to the suite.
Gmail is the anchor product in the SaaS offering. Google has over 1B consumer users of Gmail and from that success designed a means by which customers could bring their own email-enabled domain name(s) into this managed service to replace legacy on-premises systems at a significantly reduced price. The straightforward means of migrating data as well as configuring the service and the knowledge that a majority of these business users may already be familiar with Gmail via personal use has made the adoption of Google Apps a logical choice.
Examples of the evolution of this SaaS offering include:
● Acquisition in 2007 of one of the leading email security and compliance vendors and the integration of those services to the Gmail Advanced Settings options. These features include the ability for customer System Administrators to set Spam, Content, Attachment and TLS policies to meet their specific requirements.
● In 2011 Google launches the Google Apps Status Dashboard, a publicly accessible website with RSS feeds to keep the world apprise of current system status. ● In 2012 Google increases the Gmail storage allocation from 10gb to 25gb, no change in price ● In 2013 Google modifies the storage space to unify email and Drive storage and increase the allocation to 30Gb, no change in price
● In 2014 Google offers a new premium SKU that offers unlimited unified Storage ● In 2015 Google enhances the Gmail Advanced Settings features to include pre-defined lexicons to support Data Loss Prevention scanning in email.
The above list is a short list of the variety of services, support offerings, features and best practices that Google has adopted into the service delivery of the SaaS offering. In addition to the wide use of GMail, Google has six other products with over a Billion active users. Those are Google Search, Chrome, Android, Google Maps, YouTube and Google Play.
Chrome as a browser and an operating system are further evidence of strong usage and market acceptance. In a report released by Net Applications in April of 2015, Chrome browser held 25.68% market share while IE11 had 25.04, followed by IE8 at 16.0. The increase in adoption by Enterprise customers is attributed to the real time updates against emerging threats and the Chrome for Enterprise browser controls.
Chromebooks, the laptops that run Google Chrome as the OS, are seeing a rapid increase in sales in the K-12 market worldwide. This is attributed to the low-cost and the easy-to-manage machines.
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16 Google’s PaaS/IaaS offerings entitled Google Cloud Platform was first announces in 2008 with Google App Engine, a platform to develop and host web applications. Early success on this platform included The Royal Wedding Website and BestBuy moving their online Gift Card/Registry service to the platform. Over the years, and based on market demand, Google began to externalize off PaaS/IaaS service offerings that Google developed originally for their own infrastructure and platform utilization.
Google continues to expose the benefits of Google’s infrastructure to outside entities.
Or, put differently, Google lets customers use the same infrastructure that allows Google to return billions of search results in milliseconds, serve 6 billion hours of YouTube video per month and provide storage for 1Billion Gmail users.
Salesforce is the enterprise cloud computing leader dedicated to helping companies and government agencies transform into connected organizations through social and mobile technologies. Since launching its first service in 2000, Salesforce’s list of over 150,000 customers span nearly every industry worldwide.
The company’s trusted cloud platform is creating a connected government experience for over 1000 government agencies including all federal cabinet government agencies and the majority of US States.
With the world’s leading cloud platform, Salesforce is freeing government data from legacy systems, empowering citizens and connecting agencies to administer government in powerful new ways.
Government agencies are using Salesforce solutions for a multitude of government functions including grants management, constituent communications and correspondence management, incident and case management, call/contact center management, outreach programs, learning management, volunteer management, project management, and even donor management, among numerous others.
SAP is the fastest growing company at scale in the cloud with a user base of over 95 million subscribers.
We also have the largest cloud portfolio of over 30 solutions for all lines of business as well as business suites. We also have 41 data centers in 21 locations in 11 countries.
6.4.2 Offeror must describe whether or not its auditing capabilities and reports are consistent with SAS 70 or later versions including, SSAE 16 6/2011, or greater.
Security is a multidimensional business imperative that demands consideration at multiple levels, from security for applications to physical facilities and network security. In addition to the latest technologies, world-class security requires ongoing adherence to best-practice policies. To ensure this adherence, our various cloud providers continually seek relevant third-party certification, including ISO 27001, the SysTrust audit (the recognized standard for system security), and SSAE 16 SOC 1 audit (an examination and assessment of internal corporate controls, previously known as SAS 70 Type II). SOC1, SOC2 and SOC3 audits are performed by third party auditor annually at a minimum. Additional audits and certifications include: CSA ‘Consensus Assessments Initiative’, JIPDC (Japan Privacy Seal), Tuv (Germany Privacy Mark), and TRUSTe.
Some examples include:
ServiceNow’s security framework is based on ISO/IEC 27002 and has been ISO 27001 certified since 2012. Annually, ServiceNow undergoes ISO 27001 Surveillance audits and well as SSAE 16 attestations for both SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2. Customers under an NDA can request these reports annually in assisting with both their vendor management and regulatory or compliance programs. ServiceNow provides Security Event Logs using Application Level Audit Logs and Infrastructure Monitoring, SOLICITATION # CH16012
17 Application Level Audit Logs. The ServiceNow application writes detailed audit log information that is stored in tables within a customer’s instance. Since this is considered customer data and is stored within a customer’s instance, ServiceNow does not attempt to monitor or view this data unless specifically requested by a customer. As a result the customer is responsible for monitoring the contents of these logs files and, at the customer’s choosing, exporting the logs through the capabilities provided within the platform.
Infrastructure Monitoring. All components of the infrastructure supporting the private cloud feed alerts and logs into the SIEM. In addition, ServiceNow has deployed an Intrusion Detection System (IDS), positioned to listen to all inbound network traffic, with all events going to the SIEM as well. The SIEM is configured to automatically send alerts for common attacks. ServiceNow is responsible for managing the SIEM environment and securing the logs. ServiceNow retains all infrastructure logs for at least 90 days. The Security Operations Center (SOC) is also responsible for completing a daily checklist across a range of security domains, including privilege account usage, IDS alerts, file integrity monitoring (FIM), and database access. The daily checklists and captured events are managed through an instance of ServiceNow. Any variances that are discovered are raised as incidents for tracking, notifications, and investigation.
CA SaaS environment is compliant with SSAE16 for services where infrastructure and application are managed and maintained by CA. CA Agile Management currently does not hold SSAE16 certification. For SaaS offerings where infrastructure is managed by a third party, provider’s SSAE16 reports are available upon request.
6.5 – Billing and Pricing Practices
6.5.1 Describe your billing and pricing practices, including how your billing practices are transparent and easy to understand for Purchasing Entity’s.
Carahsoft’s Order Management team works to ensure that billing and payment are completed in an efficient and simple manner. Purchase Orders and Invoices are provided to the customer early to ensure that payment can be completed whenever the customer is ready and within the confines of the agreed upon deal. Our OM team is available to answer any questions a Purchasing Entity has in order to assist with the process and confirm that they have everything needed for payment.
Carahsoft’s pricing is dictated by the manufacturers- Carahsoft ensures that the Purchasing Entity’s receive the best possible price by working directly with the manufacturer and ensuring that pricing meets or exceeds the contract being used. In addition, Carahsoft works with the manufacturer to ensure that all pricing changes are accounted for within the contract, as applicable.
6.5.2 Identify any typical cost impacts that a Purchasing Entity might need to consider, if any, to implement your cloud solutions.
When a purchasing entity determines they need implementation services to their cloud solutions, the Carahsoft offering provides these additional services. For Example:
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18 for good standard solution support. ServiceNow developed the platform and applications so anyone could support changes to the configuration without having to hire outside consultants. The customer is empowered as they gain experience either by shadowing ServiceNow consultants during initial implementations, as they talking to other customers through the Community website, or by asking for technical support through the portal. So initial costs typically occur for ServiceNow when it is first implemented and there might be requested services as customers add new application support but there are no ongoing costs typically.
CA Cloud SaaS solutions are fully operational multi-tenant solution that are fully ready to use at outset.
These Solutions are typically complex management solutions that do require setup and training. For example many customer will purchase a limited time block of consulting to help with loading data, and configuring reports. Training is also available for all applications to either augment start-up packs or walk customers through basic tasks.
In addition to the licensing fees there are optional Google services that a Purchasing Entity may find meet additional mandatory requirements. Examples would include adding on other SaaS solutions like Virtru for end to end encryption or AODocs for Document Management. The key benefit to moving to Cloud based vendors is a new set of transformative tools that are more productive and most cost effective than traditional client server solutions. Other additional costs may come into play of the Purchasing Entity wants to outsource all of the configuration and migration work to the selected reseller leading to additional time and materials expenses.
The Salesforce solution is available immediately for use via the internet after a Purchasing Entity makes a purchase of the solution. Other additional costs would include any implementation fees to be performed by a certified Salesforce implementation partner. These fees vary based on the type of project and length and complexity of implementation.
6.5.3 Offeror must describe how its Solutions are NIST compliant, as defined in NIST Special Publication 800-145, with the service models it offers.
Carahsoft’s cloud solution offerings all fit within the guidelines listed in NIST publication 800-145 and repeated in Attachment D of this response. Please see response 8.1.5 for a more detailed explanation.
6.6 – Scope and Variety of Cloud Solutions
6.6 Specify the scope and variety of the service models you offer under this solicitation. You may provide a list of the different SaaS, IaaS, and/or PaaS services that you offer.
Carahsoft proudly offers a number of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS supported by the cloud technologies as listed below. Many of our top tier cloud vendors also provide subscription and utility based pricing models which would be available to the State. Below is a list of each manufacturer being proposed in this response, along with the specific type of solution (SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS) they fit into:
SaaS – AODocs, CA Technologies, DocuSign, FireEye, Google, QTS, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Virtru, VMware
PaaS – Google, QTS, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Virtustream IaaS – FireEye, Google, QTS, Virtustream, VMware
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19 6.7 – Best Practices
6.7 Specify your policies and procedures in ensuring visibility, compliance, data security and threat protection for cloud-delivered services; include any implementations of encryption or tokenization to control access to sensitive data.
Carahsoft utilizes varying procedures for ensuring visibility, compliance, data security and threat protection for cloud-delivered services. Please see the below examples of potential options for meeting the State’s expectations:
ServiceNow Response: ServiceNow applications have the advantage of being built on a single cloud platform that consists of one user interface, one code base and one data model; delivering holistic visibility into processes, creating a single source of truth, irrespective of whether the processes and systems are within the customer’s environment or hosted in the cloud. ServiceNow invests significant resources in providing its services in a secure manner. This includes global teams delivering 24x7 operations and technical support from ServiceNow staff. ServiceNow currently has offices with staff focused on the management of the private cloud in Australia, the Netherlands, the U.K, North America, and Asia. The ServiceNow environment is a private cloud, fully owned and operated by ServiceNow, which supports a logically single tenant architecture. Customer data is isolated from other customer data by leveraging an enterprise-grade cloud architecture and a dedicated database and application set per instance. This gives ServiceNow customers cost reduction through shared infrastructure, while having the security benefits of customer-specific isolation at the application and data layers. In addition to the security features that come standard within the platform and each customer instance, customers can leverage the additional security features within ServiceNow to augment the security configuration of their instances based on their own needs and risk profile.
CA Response: This is addressed throughout all of our policies and procedures. CA SaaS Operations and Delivery runs an Information Security Management Framework (ISMS), which includes security organization, documentation, monitoring, and continuous improvement cycle. The security documentation comprises of CA SaaS Operations information security policies, procedures, guidelines and checklists.
ISMS documentation is reviewed along with applicable controls annually. CA offers a variety of SaaS solutions, details for each offering has been provided in Exhibit 1 and 2 of this proposal.
Salesforce Response: Salesforce has many customers that are subject to laws pertaining to the processing of personally identifiable information (PII) or personal data. Salesforce offers its customers a broad spectrum of functionalities and customer-controlled security features that its customers may implement in their respective uses of the Salesforce services. Salesforce believes that these provide its customers the flexibility to comply with laws with stringent privacy and security requirements. Encryption options vary based on Salesforce Commercial Cloud or Salesforce Government Cloud offering.
Government Cloud Encryption:
As part of the Salesforce Government Cloud, Salesforce is capable of responding to FIPS 140-2 cryptographic implementations for data being transferred between the State’s web browser and Salesforce.
Data that resides within Salesforce’s protected boundary does not use FIPS 140-2 validated encryption as compensating/mitigating controls are in place to protect data. Additional information is provided below.
Data In Motion:
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20 Salesforce employs cryptographic mechanisms to protect information during transmission. All transmissions between the user and Salesforce are encrypted by default with a 2048- bit Public Key. Our service uses International/Global Step Up certificates. We support one- way TLS, in which customers create secure connections before sharing private data.
Secure routing and traffic flow policies ensure that customer traffic is encrypted entering Salesforce until the load balancer decrypts the traffic. The load balancers decrypting the traffic are FIPS 140-2 compliant and are located inside of the Salesforce Government Cloud isolation boundary.
Data At Rest:
NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4 states in SC-28, “Information at rest refers to the state of information when it is located on a secondary storage device (e.g., disk drive, tape drive) within an organizational information system.” SC-28 also states, “Organizations may choose to employ different mechanisms to achieve confidentiality and integrity protections, as appropriate.” All secondary storage media (hard drives, disk drives, and tapes) containing customer data are maintained within Salesforce’s secure production data centers until the media has been sanitized and destroyed. Salesforce relies on physical access controls as a compensating control to protect the data.
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21 ORGANIZATIONS PROFILE
This section should constitute the Offeror’s response to the items described in Section 7 of the RFP. An Offeror’s response must be a specific point-by-point response, in the order listed, to each requirement in the Section 7 of the RFP.
7.1 – Contract Manager
The Offeror must provide a Contract Manager as the single point of contact for management of the NASPO ValuePoint Master Agreement, administered by the State of Utah. The Contract Manager must have a minimum of three (3) years’ experience managing contracts for cloud solutions.
7.1.1 Provide the name, phone number, email address, and work hours of the person who will act as Contract Manager if you are awarded a Master Agreement.
Bethany Blackwell
Senior Manager
703-230-7435 (office)
703-501-1134 (cell)
[email protected]
Working hours: 7am-7pm EST M-F
7.1.2 Describe in detail the Contract Manager’s experience managing contracts of similar size and scope to the one that will be awarded from this RFP. Provide a detailed resume for the Contract Manager.
The proposed contract manager, Bethany Blackwell, has over 5 years of experience in managing SaaS contracts in both the State and Local and Federal markets.
Bethany developed and manages contracts and associated terms for cloud contracts in more than 10 states. The combination of the State and Federal contract vehicles and BPAs being managed is valued at over $300M. Annually, she oversees 1000+ SaaS transactions off of these contract vehicles which include licensing and implementation that provide end to end cloud solutions to public sector customers.
Name Position
Bethany Blackwell
Carahsoft Senior Account Manager –
Will serve as the NASPO ValuePoint
Contract Manager
Background
Senior Manager for cloud solutions products, including Salesforce.com, DocuSign, BMC Software Vendor/Partner manager for 20+ complimentary solution vendors and 25+ implementation partners and system integrators
Graduated Virginia Tech in 2010 - dual degree with concentrations in Psychology and Political Science
5+ years of experience at Carahsoft
Skills
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22 Expertise in negotiating SaaS contract vehicles and terms at State level Knowledge of contract vehicles, BPAs, multi-year deals, multi-vendor deals Management of enterprise size product contracts
Establish and maintain positive customer relationships through proactive communication Maintained interactions with customers to ensure quick, accurate quotes; facilitated easy ordering process for customers
Relevant Experience
Oversees the management and execution of 900+ individual SaaS contracts, valued at 85M+ annually
Maintain the annual recurring subscription renewal bases to ensure no customer’s lapse in service Oversees the ordering and distribution of licenses on statewide enterprise licenses agreements and various BPAs
Established vendor specific terms and conditions for 10 different statewide contracts Assist customers in shifting buying strategy from perpetual to subscription licensing model
7.1.3 Describe in detail the roles and responsibilities of the Contract Manager as they apply to the NASPO ValuePoint Master Agreement that will be awarded from this RFP.
The Contract Manager assigned to this contract will be in charge of all coordination and organization efforts between Carahsoft and NASPO ValuePoint. This includes, but is not limited to:
contract negotiation
roll-out plan
amendments completion
renewal execution
reseller/subcontractor additions
contract pricelist updates and upkeep
contract compliance
marketing coordination
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23 TECHNICAL RESPONSE
This section should constitute the Technical response of the proposal and must contain at least the following information:
A. A complete narrative of the Offeror's assessment of the Cloud Solutions to be provided, the Offerors ability and approach, and the resources necessary to fulfill the requirements. This should demonstrate the Offeror's understanding of the desired overall performance expectations and clearly indicate any options or alternatives proposed.
In response to the State of Utah request for Cloud Solution Proposals, Carahsoft has assembled a response that includes a number of Cloud Solution Offerings from within the Carahsoft Cloud framework.
These offerings are all supported in part or wholly by twelve leading cloud technology providers. Each provider’s technology is an integral part of Carahsoft’s proposal. Within this framework, Carahsoft will orchestrate, assemble, and execute on all activities necessary to support this contract, engaging each cloud technology provider as needed in the delivery of a particular service or solution offering.
The Carahsoft Cloud framework will provide for all requirements of the State of Utah Request for Proposal to be fulfilled. Carahsoft will be able to provide Cloud Solution Offerings to the State of Utah as well as to those entities that may participate via the cooperative purchasing program. The Carahsoft Cloud proposal provides for the provision of PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS offerings that are compliant with all requirements as outlined by the State. Carahsoft will provide dedicated resources to supporting this agreement. Carahsoft will insure that adequate resources are supplied to fully support this agreement during all phases from contract launch through termination. Usage requirements and demand resources fluctuate over time and Carahsoft’s Cloud offering has been constructed in a manner that provides for the ability to scale without interruption, disruption, or any other similar interruption of customer service and solution availability.
B. A specific point-by-point response, in the order listed, to each requirement in the Section 8 of the RFP. Offerors should not provide links to a website as part of its response.
Offeror’s should focus their proposals on the technical qualifications and capabilities described in the RFP.
Offerors should not include sales brochures as part of their response.
For the purposes of Carahsoft’s response to the technical requirements (section 8) of this RFP, please note that any response provided related to a specific manufacturer should be treated as a response to the following categories:
SaaS – AODocs, CA Technologies, DocuSign, FireEye, Google, QTS, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Virtru, VMware
PaaS – Google, QTS, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Virtustream IaaS – FireEye, Google, QTS, Virtustream, VMware
8.1 – Technical Requirements
8.1.1 Offeror must identify the cloud service model(s) and deployment model(s) it intends to provide to Eligible Users. See Attachment D.
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24 CA APM CA APIM SaaS offering helps accelerate, secure and manage APIs. CA is responsible for development and management of application. AWS provides IaaS services to CA for management of the underlying cloud infrastructure.
MAA CA Mobile App Analytics stimulates collaboration between business analysts, developers, operations and support in order to accelerate mobile app delivery and improve end-user experience. This service is hosted at CenturyLink Data center and the infrastructure is managed and maintained by CA SaaS Ops and Delivery team.
CA Agile CA Agile Central is a SaaS offering that is generally used to document and manage work within the SDLC.
ASM CA App Synthetic Monitor (ASM) provides end-to-end transaction response-time visibility into cloud, mobile and Web applications. Application utilizes Rack Space IaaS services.
Google The Cloud Service Models that we intend to provide include SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. In our response we will describe the various options for using Google Apps under the SaaS model and the functions of Google Cloud Platform under Paas and Iaas.
AODocs The Cloud Service Models that we intend to provide is SaaS.
Virtru All Virtru services are cloud-based and accessed via browser or downloadable browser extensions and plugins.
Salesforce Salesforce’s deployment model is a “public” cloud infrastructure, as defined by NIST 800-145 ServiceNow Cloud service model: Software as a Service (SaaS) Deployment model: Private Cloud
QTS "QTS is a leading national provider of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) data center solutions and fully managed cloud services and a leader in security and compliance. The company offers a complete, unique portfolio of core data center products, including custom data center (C1), colocation (C2) and cloud and managed services (C3), providing the flexibility, scale and security needed to support the rapidly evolving hybrid infrastructure demands of web and IT applications.
With 12 data centers in eight states, QTS owns, operates and manages approximately 4.7 million square feet of secure, state-of-the-art data center infrastructure and supports more than 850 customers. QTS’ Critical Facility Management (CFM) can provide increased efficiency and greater performance for third-party data center owners and operators.
QTS offers a number of IaaS solutions.
SAP Ariba Our solutions are offered and delivered in a true subscription-based model and shared service (multi-tenant) offering. There is no software to install, no hardware to buy, no maintenance or support costs and no need to hire consultants or tech specialists to run the system. We deploy and manage the infrastructure. Customers only need a web browser for access. Subscriptions include system maintenance, automatic upgrades, enhancements and application of service packs, Level 1– 3 help desk support, professional services and best practices built directly into the application.
Fieldglass The SAP Fieldglass application is exclusively offered in a software as a service (SaaS) model.
Hanna SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) is a private managed isolated & dedicated ladnscape (single tenant) offering end-to-end cloud-based infrastructure and managed services for SAP applications powered by SAP HANA. It is a fully scalable, enterprise-ready, mission-critical, secure and high-availability cloud service.
Hybris The SAP Hybris Commerce, Cloud Edition offering are all single tenent hosted VM environments. Customers have their own VM's with SAP Hybris instances deployed to those VM's. The SAP Hybris Commerce, Cloud Edition currently SOLICITATION # CH16012
25 has Development, Staging, Testing, and Production environment. More environments can be added as required.
SuccessFactors Our solutions are delivered through a private cloud using a multi-tenant architecture. We refer to this as a Controlled Cloud. It includes a contractual framework reflecting applicable data privacy regulations, implementation and maintenance in accordance with Technical and Organizational Measures (TOMS) and regular audits by an independent third party for industry compliance and transparency.
VMware vCloud Air IaaS – Public, Hybrid, Community
Horizon Air
Desktop & Apps
IaaS – Public
vCloud Suite IaaS – Private, Hybrid, Community
Airwatch IaaS – Private
SaaS – Public
Horizon 6 IaaS – Private
Realize Air
Complaince
SaaS – Public
SocialCast SaaS – Public
FireEye All FireEye cloud offerings included in this response fit the SaaS cloud service model and private cloud deployment model.
VirtueStream Virtustream solution is fully NIST compliant for Essential Characteristics, as the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Service Model, with all deployment options – Private Cloud, Community Cloud, Public and Hybrid Cloud.
8.1.2 For the purposes of the RFP, meeting the NIST essential characteristics is a primary concern. As such, describe how your proposed solution(s) meet the following characteristics, as defined in NIST Special Publication 800-145:
8.1.2.1 NIST Characteristic – On Demand Self-Service: Provide a brief written description of how the cloud solutions proposed satisfies this individual essential NIST Characteristic. Attest capability and briefly describe how self-service technical capability is met.
CA APM N/A. This is a SaaS service and clients do not have direct access to the underlying infrastructure in order to provision computing capabilities. CA is responsible for the management and maintenance of the infrastructure and will make any necessary adjustments as part of providing this service to its clients.
MAA This is a SaaS offering and On-Demand service is not available, however, MAA customers are enabled to manage their accounts and carry out configuration changes required to manage mobile applications.
CA Agile We are a fully multi-tenant environment and do not provide the On-Demand SelfService capability.
ASM This does not apply as this is a SaaS service. ASM customers are able to manage all aspects of their accounts, create sub-accounts, and make any configuration changes necessary for their monitors.
Google SaaS, Google Apps administrators have access to an Admin Panel that allows them to perform user administration, service configurations, reporting on demand.
Paas/IaaS, Google Cloud Platform is an integrated set of Compute tools, Storage Tools, Networking Tools, Big Data analytic tools, Management tools and Services APIs. A customer can use any of these services on demand via the Developer's Console.
AODocs SaaS, AODocs administrators have access to an Admin Panel that allows them to perform user administration, product configurations,reporting on demand.
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26 Virtru All required services can be provisioned immediately when required. Users only need to install application to get single-user capability, or login to administrative dashboard for administrative features.
Salesforce Salesforce PaaS and SaaS solutions are delivered on-demand via the web and can be accessed with a browser and internet connection or mobile device. No additional software or infrastructure is required. Salesforce hosts the entire solution, thus freeing up customers to manage their mission, not manage an infrastructure solution. Additionally, Salesforce is browser agnostic and supports all major browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE). No installations on users’ laptops or desktops are required and thus the solution is accessible from anywhere an internet connection and supported browser are available, including mobile devices.
ServiceNow Customer instances are provisioned automatically after an agreement between a customer and ServiceNow is executed. ServiceNow actively monitors customer instance performance and can automatically scale its application servers out horizontally by adding them to the load balancer pools for a particular instance.
Docusign DocuSign’s DTM® solution is ISO 27001:2013 certified and many of the ISO 27001:2013 controls are mapped to the NIST 800-53 requirements; we can provide additional information upon request.
QTS On-demand self-service. A consumer can unilaterally provision computing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, as needed automatically without requiring human interaction with each service provider.
SAP Ariba The solution provides self-service user profile management. Users profit from the intuitive, minimal-step nature of the user interface with little or no training.
Changes to user profile includes workflow capability for profile changes.
Fieldglass All system resources are available to all customers without limitation. The system is highly configurable with most configurations being available to the customer’s administrators.
Hanna HANA Enterprise Cloud is a private managed cloud therefore infra & services could be requested (added or decommisioned) on demand by placing change requests with SAP HEC teams. HEC roles & responsibilties document clearly articulates what is included in the monthly HEC pricing and what is available on-demand in addition to scaling up or down on the infra/compute.
Hybris N/A
SuccessFactors All self-service is in one place, including benefits and payroll if those products are in scope. Self-service is an intuitive experience. We provide the ability for employees to have configured permissions to take action in the tool such as field or data updates for personal information, benefits changes, payroll actions, completing workflow for assigned activities in the tool, etc. Selfservice for both employees and managers is configurable to fit your business rules and organizational requirements.
VMware VMware's IaaS and SaaS offerings complies with the On-Demand Self-Service characteristic, because once purchased, a user can unilaterally provision compute resources with no human interaction with VMware. The subscription includes access to two self service consoles: My VMware for account management, and the VMware vCloud Air Console which is the primary interface for access consumption and management of cloud resources purchased from VMware. (See doc for a complete list of products/ features that comply) FireEye FireEye is offering 4 distinct SaaS cloud solutions each featuring self-service features specific to the unique capabilities of the offerings:
1.Email Threat Prevention (ETP)
Email Provisioning
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27 Once the ETP infrastructure is provisioned, customers can self-service the acceptance of upstream mail and delivery to user mailboxes by configuring their own domain settings. No user mailbox provisioning is required as ETP will automatically check the validity of the email recipient with the downstream service.
2.Mobile Threat Prevention (MTP)
User Provisioning
Once the MTP infrastructure is provisioned, customers can self-service the creation of service users by integrating with an LDAP service or manually adding the users via the user interface.
Device Provisioning
Once the MTP infrastructure is provisioned, customers can self-service the creation of managed devices by instructing users to install the FireEye MTP Application on their mobile device and having a valid user account provisioned.
3.Threat Analytics Platform (TAP)
User Provisioning
Once the TAP infrastructure is provisioned, customers can create and assign role-based access control to user accounts. The enrollment process includes the ability to create two-factor authentication for newly provisioned users.
Data Sources
Once the TAP infrastructure is provisioned, customers can configure new data sources to feed the TAP instance without the assistance of FireEye. The TAP communications broker accepts data feeds in the following formats: syslog, flat files, TCP/UDP streams, and JDBC connections.
4.FireEye as a Service with Continuous Vigilance (FaaS CV) User Provisioning
Once the FaaS infrastructure is provisioned, customers can create and assign role-based access control to user accounts via the on premise FireEye sensors.
VirtueStream Virtustream IaaS provides a self-service portal called xStream, where users can access, view, edit, provision, and modify compute, storage, network and application services based on granular Role Based Access Control, which can be integrated with Active Directory or LDAP. Virtustream portal that enables the user to provision VMs, order services through a catalog, add storage, upload service templates, and run various reports all through the same portal.
8.1.2.2 NIST Characteristic – Broad Network Access: Provide a brief written description of how the cloud solutions proposed satisfies this individual essential NIST Characteristic. Attest capability and briefly describe how network access is provided.
CA APM The APIM service is accessed via HTTPS on a supported browser with no requirements for a workstation client install ; mobile friendly and optimized for use with iOS and Android tablets
MAA Upon native authentication, MAA dashboard is accessible by any host over public internet. Also, mobile devices connect to the service using REST API.
CA Agile All access to the application is through a browser.
ASM The ASM dashboard and API are accessible from any host connected to the public Internet. The API and dashboard require authentication, and each account is only accessible by the account owner (customer).
Google SaaS, Google Apps is device, platform and network agnostic. As a pure play cloud-based solution the services can be accessed via any modern browser from any network access point. Customers that have requirements to limit access to trusted devices or trusted access points have access to Device Management tools via the Admin Panel at no additional cost.
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28 appropriate tools (browser, CLI, APIs, etc.). Administrators can also monitor and manage services through a mobile app.
AODocs SaaS, AODocs is service, platform and network agnostic. As a pure play cloud-based solution the services can be accessed via any modern browser from any network access point.
Virtru All Virtru services are available on the publically available internet.
Salesforce Salesforce PaaS and SaaS solutions are delivered on-demand via the web and can be accessed with a browser and internet connection or mobile device. No additional software or infrastructure is required. Salesforce hosts the entire solution, thus freeing up customers to manage their mission, not manage an infrastructure solution. Additionally, Salesforce is browser agnostic and supports all major browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE). No installations on users’ laptops or desktops are required and thus the solution is accessible from anywhere an internet connection and supported browser are available, including mobile devices.
ServiceNow ServiceNow’s physical architecture is deployed into ServiceNow’s managed dedicated colocation cage space. Multiple diverse Internet connections terminate within the dedicated cage space providing redundant access from the Internet to the ServiceNow environment.
All users, administrators and developers connect to the ServiceNow private cloud over HTTPS, leveraging TLS, for communication to and from a ServiceNow instance with all normal interactions via a web browser. There is no requirement to install any client software on any desktop, laptop, tablet, or smart phone used to access a ServiceNow instance.
Docusign Please see above.
QTS Broad network access. Capabilities are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous thin or thick client platforms (e.g., mobile phones, tablets, laptops, and workstations).
QTS recognizes that the connectivity challenges of today are largely driven by consolidation, virtualization and adaptive architectures. Our agile connectivity solutions provide you with both unification across your communication infrastructure and with built-in network scale, reliability, and high-performance.
QTS metroConnect is a fast, reliable, high bandwidth connection to hundreds of network and service providers inside the local Carrier Hotel. With access to the numerous networks at the carrier hotel, QTS delivers the interconnection necessary to support your connectivity, business continuity and application collaboration needs. metroConnect offers redundancy and diversity options that ensure your content is always available.
•High availability
•Backed by a 99.999% SLA
•24x7x365 monitoring and management
•Carrier-neutral model
•Convenient access to an array of Carriers and Internet providers •Dedicated, secure, and highly resilient connectivity with speeds of 100Mbps, 1Gbps or 10Gbps* •Supports all connectivity redundancy, business continuity, and collaborative application needs QTS data centerConnect Service
Data centerConnect is a secure, scalable, cost-effective way to connect your primary and secondary sites between two or more client environments located in different QTS data centers providing a reliable interconnection option for any size business. QTS data centerConnect enables data replication and recovery through its resilient and redundant network. This ensures your business operates successfully with seamless, day-to-day transactions over a high-performance, low latency connection that supports business continuity, data replication and other IT business application needs.
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29 •Dedicated and Secure – Dedicated bandwidth with secure MPLS encapsulation •Scalable Bandwidth – Easily scale your bandwidth (from 10Mb up to 1Gb) •Flexible Network Configurations – Supports multiple network topologies •Cost-effective, Bundled Solution – All inclusive, bundled offer •Fully Managed, End-to-End – End-to-end, proactive monitoring and management, 24x7x365 QTS internetConnect Service
internetConnect provides a multi-homed, high performance, dual access, multi-carrier network that meets all your Internet service needs. We ensure maximum uptime, guaranteed availability, and various bandwidth speeds through our flexible, high performance, carrier-neutral offer. For enterprises and government agencies conducting business over the Internet, QTS internetConnect Service provides a highly reliable, secure connectivity solution for production environments. •Direct access to multiple ISP backbones gives unmatched reliability and guarantees maximum uptime
◦Dual connections with direct access to multiple ISP backbones ◦Diverse, redundant paths to multiple backbone providers ◦Dual paths, with diverse entry points into the QTS Data Center •Anti-DDoS Mitigation Services provide an additional level of protection and security •Dedicated with burstable bandwidth options provides resiliency and flexibility •Backed by an industry leading 100% SLA
•Optional service plans to meet your needs
QTS ethernetConnect Service
You need to be able to connect your employees and customers to your applications and to the outside world. Whether hybrid cloud, disaster recovery/disaster recovery as a service, data replication, data migration or other applications, you need the ability to seamlessly and conveniently connect your business together and to the outside world as if there is no distance between you.
QTS ethernetConnect offers a variety of connectivity options. You can centralize your services with a single provider. And since QTS can handle everything from ordering to billing you have a single provider for a complete solution – “One Stop Shopping”. QTS understands your needs and will tailor your end-to-end solution for your business. •High Bandwidth – Speeds are available in select increments of 100Mb to 10Gb •Data Privacy – Data is separated from IP traffic as it traverses the carrier backbone •High Performance Options – Solutions can be developed to fit your specific performance or reliability requirements
•Consistency – Ethernet circuits travel over a single carrier’s infrastructure and data follows a consistent path.
SAP Ariba Ariba uses Cisco Routers and Catalysts (high-speed switches) for ensuring maximum network connection performance. They deliver enterprise-class versatility, integration, and power to Ariba. Together, these routers provide the required support for Internet/intranet access with firewall security.
Fieldglass Customers are only required to use a standard web browser with default settings to access and use the Fieldglass solution.
Hanna Cloud Capabilities are available over the network (via secure MPLS or VPN network connectivity) and accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous thin or thick client platforms such as mobile phones, laptops. HEC is an extension of customers existing netwerk and uses customes IP range and /24 range.
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30 thick client platforms through either standard web technologies or through the hybris OCC REST web service API's.
SuccessFactors Our solution was designed from the outset for high availability. We provide a system availability SLA of 99.5%. Every component (hardware and software) is completely redundant. There is a redundant piece of equipment or software for every hardware or software component for every layer of the infrastructure stack (server, software and network).
We load balance at every tier in the infrastructure, from the network to the database servers. F5 load balancers are used to route traffic to an available web server to process the request. Application server clusters are enabled so that servers can fail without interrupting the user experience. We maintain an N+1 approach for all equipment in the hosted cloud environment, so that there is never a single point of failure. All customer database backups are encrypted and streamed in a secure manner from the customer’s “primary” data center to their “alternate” data center, allowing for a timely restoration of service in the event of disaster.
Based on the terms of the agreement, we will designate one of the data centers as the customer’s “primary” data center, with an additional data center designated as the “alternate” for data redundancy and disaster recovery purposes.
Load balancers will automatically detect a software or hardware error and take the servers out of service if needed without interrupting the user experience or application. They also allow capacity addition or reduction without interrupting service.
All of the JBOSS application servers are clustered. Each is designated as a primary and a secondary, so any application server can fail without any loss of service or interruption of the application or user experience.
The database servers are also clustered using a Veritas high availability cluster. The Veritas suite will detect any hardware or software errors in the database machines and automatically fail them over to a standby server VMware VMware's IaaS offerings complies with the Broad Network Access characteristic. All fo these products' capabilities are available over the public internet and can be used by heterogeneous thin or thick client platforms. Consumers only need internet access to access these resources.
Additional capabilities exist including the ability to secure communications over the public internet including IPSEC VPN, SSL Client VPN, and the ability to consume via WAN connectivity.
VMware's SaaS offering AirWatch can be accessed over the internet or private network through standard mechanisms.
FireEye All FireEye cloud offerings included in this response meet the definition of broad network access.
Each of the solutions performs its designed functionality over standard internet-facing services and is accessible via a web browser from any internet connected device when valid credentials are provided.
VirtueStream Virtustream IaaS provides Broad Network Access, where it can provide landing zone for any private network (Point-to-Point, Virtual Private Label Switching, Multi-Protocol Label Switching, or Direct Connect), public network (Internet, Trusted Internet Connectivity as landing zone, IPSEC VPN and SSL VPN) and also extranet connectivity (shared network, i.e, Cloud Connect, Cloud Exchange, etc.) which is growing rapidly as option for connecting cloud resources.
8.1.2.3 NIST Characteristic - Resource Pooling: Provide a brief written description of how the cloud solutions proposed satisfies this individual essential NIST Characteristic. Attest capability and briefly describe how resource pooling technical capability is met.
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31 Carahsoft’s multiple Cloud Service Provider’s solution provides for Resource Pooling, as defined by NIST, in a variety of methods. Each method optimizes the cloud subscriber’s experience while optimizing the availability of compute, network, and data resources. Each service provider provides Resource Pooling, see below for details.
CA APM CA API Management SaaS (SaaS APIM) has been built from the ground up to be a multi-tenanted, SaaS-based offering that leverages Amazon’s infrastructure to scale appropriately; utilize a continuous integration model to provide for frequent updates; and fail over across multiple availability zones.
MAA MAA core service utilizes dedicated infrastructure layered with virtualization capabilities. It doesn’t share computing resources with other services. Tenants are segregated using application containerization capabilities.
CA Agile We monitor all system resources and have alerting mechanisms when resource constraints have reached a defined threshold. We can easily scale our systems to accommodate any additional capacity. If we determine a single user is using a significant amount of resources we will proactively reach out to them to understand what they are trying to accomplish and help them to formulate more performant queries.
ASM All ASM core servers are dedicated physical servers. ASM Public Status Pages are served from dedicated web servers (used only by CA ASM) in the Amazon Cloud, on shared tenancy virtualization. Amazon Cloud virtual machines used by ASM are managed by and provisioned by CA ASM systems administrators.
Google SaaS, Google's global infrastructure is a shared pool of resources that dynamically serve each end user with a primary data center access point that may rotate throughout the session without the end user being aware while at the same time replicating any data across at least two additional geographically dispersed data centers which also may rotate through the session.
PaaS/IaaS, Google Cloud Platform also operates across the global Google infrastruture. The elements of this service can be defined within the Developer's console to run within a higher level of abstraction which covers four regions; Central US, Eastern US, Western Europe, East Asia where each region has three or four zones.
AODocs AODocs infrastructure is hosted in Google App Engine and data of our customers on Google Drive. This protection is insured by Google.
Virtru Virtru Services are offered in a fully multi-tenant mode if the customer requests.
Salesforce Salesforce is a multitenant cloud-based subscription service. Multi-tenant cloud solutions provide a single, shared infrastructure, one code base, one platform that is all centrally managed, with platform-based API to support all integration traffic, and multiple release upgrades included as part of the subscription service. Multi-tenancy and the Cloud Computing model remove unneeded tasks from the process of delivering, managing, and integrating software. Salesforce customers will not need to maintain any hardware or software. Without multiple versions to support, integrations don’t break during updates; they are simply updated automatically. As a result, both the initial integration and its continued maintenance are simplified. More resources can be focused on creating a better product, with a faster cycle of innovation, instead of having to manage the complexity of many different versions to support a vast installed base.
Salesforce's position as an online service enables us to roll out all levels of improvement, from patch releases to major upgrades that are largely transparent to the end users. When a bug is fixed and tested, it is rolled out to the application as part of regular maintenance; the nature of the service prevents special patches and code branches for individual customers, so all fixes can potentially benefit all customers.
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32 by leveraging an enterprise-grade cloud architecture and a dedicated database and application set per instance. This gives ServiceNow customers cost reduction through shared infrastructure, while having the security benefits of customer-specific isolation at the application and data layers. In addition to the security features that come standard within the platform and each customer instance, customers can leverage the additional security features within ServiceNow to augment the security configuration of their instances based on their own needs and risk profile.
Customers share a hardware platform (no virtualization), but access entirely separate individual instances of the ServiceNow platform.
Docusign
QTS Resource pooling. The provider’s computing resources are pooled to serve multiple consumers using a multi-tenant model, with different physical and virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to consumer demand. There is a sense of location independence in that the customer generally has no control or knowledge over the exact location of the provided resources but may be able to specify location at a higher level of abstraction (e.g., country, state, or datacenter). Examples of resources include storage, processing, memory, and network bandwidth.
SAP Ariba Ariba recognizes that customers need the highest-possible availability and reliability. To that end, Ariba infrastructure is scalable and redundant at all tiers. To provide high availability and reliability, Ariba has extensive error handling and fail-over capabilities. In order to ensure the highest availability, Ariba uses such best practices as frequent systems backup and maintenance, redundant systems, proactive customer notification of unplanned down-time and international support coverage.
Fieldglass Fieldglass is offered in a SaaS model. All customers access the same Fieldglass application version in a multi-tenancy database. The system is hosted in a secure hosting facility. All system resources are available to all customers without limitation.
Hanna SAP HEC does not pool resources for critical business systems as it’s a managed private cloud, which is dedicated to one particular customer.
However, network routers, availability reporting & monitoring could be shared.
Details can be provided during HEC technical assessment workshop.
Hybris All computing resources of the data centers are pooled to serve multiple customers. Each customer gets their own separate VM's and their own instances of hybris deployed to those VM's.
SuccessFactors Load Balancing & Server Clustering – We load balance at every tier in the infrastructure, from the network to the database servers. Application server clusters are enabled so that servers can fail without interrupting the user experience. Database servers are clustered for failover. We maintain an N+1 approach for all equipment in its hosted environment, so that there is never a single point of failure.
Complete Redundancy - Every infrastructure component is redundant. There are at least two of each hardware component that processes the flow and storage of data.
Backup & Restore - the Data center runs full data backups weekly and incremental data backups nightly.
VMware All VMware's IaaS products comply with the Resource Pooling characteristic (except for the Hybrid Cloud Manager which is Not Applicable). vCloud Air provides a pool of vCPU, vRAM, Network and storage on the shared physical infrastructure. vCloud Air provides the required location independence and requires that the customer directly specify location of the datacenter that will host their cloud at time of instantiation. Note VMware's SaaS is also Not Applicable.
FireEye The FireEye cloud infrastructures consists of web and application servers, operating systems, and databases in a hosted environment and are comprised of both physical and virtual devices.
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33 Computing power and resources are load-balanced across infrastructure and replicated to redundant datacenters in the event of a disaster. Client-specific data stored in databases are logically separated from other clients’ data providing segmentation and isolation.
VirtueStream Key to Virtustream solution is its proprietary and patented solution of uVM technology, which is effectively a granular solution for resource pooling, providing application performance, pay for consumption only and segregate resources for security and compliance, but aggregate for cost efficiency. In addition, Virtustream is currently one of very few Cloud Service Provider with capabilities for Geo-Fencing and Geo-Tagging of the virtual machines to a specific data center, and getting down to cluster and host machine level. The resources are pooled based on two specific criteria:
•ONLY Accessible Using Private Network – We call this pool “Enterprise” which most of Virtustream’s IaaS workload is residing. There is no direct access from Internet into this pool. This is protected via a pair of routing and firewall from any other zones.
8.1.2.4 NIST Characteristic - Rapid Elasticity: Provide a brief written description of how the cloud solutions proposed satisfies this NIST Characteristic. Attest capability and briefly describe how rapid elasticity technical capability is met.
CA APM CA API Management SaaS (SaaS APIM) has been built from the ground up to be a multi-tenanted, SaaS-based offering that leverages Amazon’s infrastructure to scale appropriately; utilize a continuous integration model to provide for frequent updates; and fail over across multiple availability zones.
MAA The pool of web and application servers can be grown or shrunk when necessary.
Any changes to the size of the pool remains transparent to end-users and customers, and would only be done by CA MAA systems administrators.
CA Agile This is a SaaS service, therefore, CA monitors all system resources and have alerting mechanisms when resource constraints have reached a defined threshold. Data storage and network capacity are monitored and scaled to meet current client demands. Compute resources are scaled to meet client processing requirements ASM All ASM core servers are dedicated physical servers; there is no elasticity. The ASM Public Status Pages are served from web servers in the Amazon Cloud, and the pool of web servers can be grown or shrunk if necessary. Any changes to the size of the pool would be transparent to end-users and customers, and would only be done by CA ASM systems administrators. Since this is a SaaS environment the CA SaaS Operations and delivery along with RackSpace are responsible for management of the capacity and monitoring.
Google Saas, Google Apps can scale from 1 user to tens of thousand users. The usage of the services included are designed to horizontal scale within the confines of the per user storage allocation.
Google Apps can be purchased with a 30gb per user allocation or with unlimited storage.
Paas/IaaS, Google Cloud Platform was designed to scale on demand both in terms of available resources for applications designed and running on Google App Engine but also Compute Engine resources and more.
AODocs AODocs can scale from one user to tens of thousand users. The storage is based on the Google Apps storage which could be from 30Gb to unlimited storage depending on the Google Apps subscription.
Virtru Presently we over-provision services by 2.5x peak traffic in order to handle spikes. We are in the process of implementing horizontal scaling of all services and expect to have that work completed in the second half of 2016.
Salesforce User AuthenticationLogon is form-based. When users log into the Salesforce application, they submit a username and password, which are sent to Salesforce via an TLS-encrypted session.
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34 Security features are developed by Salesforce and built into the application. Third-party packages are not used for development or implementation of security internal to the application.
In addition, single sign-on and two-factor authentication may be used to authenticate users. Some organizations prefer to use an existing single sign-on capability to simplify and standardize their user authentication. You have two options to implement single sign-on—federated authentication using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) or delegated authentication.
Federated authentication using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) allows you to send authentication and authorization data between affiliated but unrelated Web services. This enables you to sign-on to Salesforce from a client application. Federated authentication using SAML is enabled by default for your organization.
Delegated authentication single sign-on enables you to integrate Salesforce with an authentication method that you choose. This enables you to integrate authentication with your LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server, or perform single sign-on by authenticating using a token instead of a password. You manage delegated authentication at the profile level, allowing some users to use delegated authentication, while other users continue to use their Salesforce-managed password. Delegated authentication is set by profile, not organization wide. You must request that this feature be enabled by Salesforce.
Salesforce can be configured to utilize Active Directory directly via Delegated Authentication, or indirectly via Federated Identity using either SAML 1.1, or SAML 2.0. Additionally your users can be loaded from information drawn from your Active Directory servers and modifications made in Active Directory can be propagated into Salesforce.
Customers can use their own SAML Identity Provider, or license one directly from Salesforce with our Identity Connect product.User ProvisioningUser provisioning and management is performed through the Salesforce Administrative Setup environment and is performed by Salesforce customers. Users, their profiles, permissions and passwords may be managed, edited, activated and deactivated as needed by those with appropriate permissions. An administrator (appointed by the customer and not by Salesforce) with appropriate privileges can manage session timeout, password policies, IP range login restrictions, delegated authentication/SSO, and requirements as part of this process. On first time login or password reset request, users are required to change their passwords to gain access. Salesforce also offers delegated authentication, enabling customers to provision and deactivate users from an external directory service.User Access ProfilesSalesforce enables administrators to manage roles and relationships between roles from within the application, in a single easy to read page depicting the role hierarchy.
All users and application-level security are defined and maintained by the organization administrator and not by Salesforce. The organization administrator is appointed by CSBS. An organization's sharing model sets the default access that users have to each other's data.
There are four sharing models: Private, Public Read Only, Public Read/Write, and Public Read/Write/Transfer. There are also several sharing model elements: Profiles, Roles, Hierarchy, Record Types, Page Layouts, and Field Level security.
Details about sharing models and sharing model elements are provided below:
Private
Only the record owner, and users above that role in the hierarchy, can view, edit, and report on those records.
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All users can view and report on records but not edit them. Only the owner, and users above that role in the hierarchy, can edit those records.
Public Read/Write
All users can view, edit, and report on all records.
Public Read/Write/Transfer
All users can view, edit, transfer, and report on all records. Only available for cases or leads.
Profiles
A profile contains the settings and permissions that control what users with that profile can do within Salesforce. Profiles control:
Standard and custom apps the user can view (depending on user license) Service providers the user can access
Tabs the user can view (depending on user license and other factors, such as access to Salesforce CRM Content)
Administrative and general permissions the user has for managing the organization and apps within it
Object permissions the user is granted to create, read, edit, and delete records Page layouts a user sees
Field-level security access that the user has to view and edit specific fields Record types are available to the user
Desktop clients users can access and related options
Hours during which and IP addresses from which the user can log in Apex classes a user can execute
Visualforce pages a user can access
User Roles
Every user must be assigned to a role, or their data will not display in opportunity reports, forecast rollups, and other displays based on roles.
All users that require visibility to the entire organization should be assigned the highest level in the hierarchy.
It is not necessary to create individual roles for each title at the company, rather a hierarchy of roles should be defined to control access of information entered by users in lower level roles.
When a user's role is changed, any relevant sharing rules are reevaluated to add or remove access as necessary.
Record Types
If the customer's organization uses record types, edit the record type to modify which pick list values are visible for the record type. A default pick list values can be set based upon the record type for various divisions.
Field Level Security
Field-level security settings let administrators restrict user's access to view and edit specific fields on detail and edit pages and in related lists, list views, reports, Offline Edition, search results, email and mail merge templates, Custom Links, and when synchronizing data.
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36 The fields that users see in detail and edit pages are a combination of page layouts and field-level security settings. The most restrictive field access settings of the two always apply. For example, if a field is required in the page layout and read-only in the field-level security settings, the field-level security overrides the page layout and the field will be read-only for the user.
ServiceNow ServiceNow is a multi-instance architecture that gives every customer its own unique database, which means that it is impossible for your data to be commingled with any other customer. The multi-instance architecture is not built on large centralized database software and infrastructure.
Instead, we deploy instances on a per-customer basis, allowing the multi-instance cloud to scale horizontally and infinitely. For our multi-instance cloud, we deploy separate application logic (Apache Tomcat Java Virtual Machines) and database processes (MySQL) for every customer.
This allows ServiceNow to scale its application servers out horizontally by adding them to the load balancer pools for a particular instance.
QTS Rapid elasticity. Capabilities can be elastically provisioned and released, in some cases automatically, to scale rapidly out ward and in ward commensurate with demand. To the consumer, the capabilities available for provisioning often appear to be unlimited and can be appropriated in any quantity at any time.
Delivering scalable, secure, high-performing, virtual data centers for government applications QTS is committed to not only giving your cloud the most secure home, but also the ability to utilize bestof-breed technologies.
Flexible, high-performing, future proof infrastructure: Built upon the VMware vCloud® Suite, you’ll benefit from reliable, high-performing infrastructure using a platform that includes VMware, EMC and Cisco. This compatible solution easily integrates with private VMware environments and provides a pathway to a hybrid cloud.Our scalability increases agility, efficiency and productivity:
Your technologists can focus more time on your business and customers, and less time on your infrastructure. Rapid provisioning and improvements in utilization enhances your speed to market, delivers applications faster, and gets projects out the door.
Virtually unlimited bandwidth and communications diversity QTS operates carrier-neutral data center facilities. This means that customers can select their communications service providers from hundreds of carriers, Internet Service Providers, dark fiber and satellite companies to meet their transport requirements. Selecting a provider from such a broad list of options gives customers exceptional route diversity and pricing options, as well as different Service Level Agreements and installation schedules. Customers who need very high amounts of bandwidth to conduct their business efficiently will never have to worry about running out of capacity at a QTS facility. Similarly, customers who require exceedingly high communications security have the benefits of selecting from physically diverse routes between their ends points and dark fiber that is not shared with any other users. In short, there are virtually no limitations to the type, amount, or security of communications available at each QTS data center facility.
SAP Ariba There are no scalability limits with our products. We can scale accordingly to fit any data amount or user volume scenario.
Fieldglass The hosted Fieldglass solution can be horizontally and vertically scaled very quickly as the web server farm is fully virtualized. Only the SQL server is bare metal by design.
Hanna SAP HEC can be rapidly scaled to provision infrastructure & services on demand per customer requests.
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Attributes include:
A POD is designed to support millions of subscribers. Our current 2nd Generation POD is scaled to 5M+
Multi-Vendor High Performance Blade Servers with 40GBps backplane fabric interconnects
Multiple redundant Application Engines
Clustering for availability and performance
Hardware load balancers to route each new incoming session to the most available web and application processor
Designed to support a high rate of concurrent connections while maintaining sufficient redundant capacity to meet SLA requirements
New production PODs undergo a verification process before being brought into service
Excess capacity PODs are always available on standby (scalability-ondemand) We will increase capacity if data center utilization surpasses the 70% threshold
VMware All vCloud Air offerings partially comply with Rapid Elasticity. vCloud Air can be purchased as a pool of vCPU, vRAM, Network and Storage on shared or dedicated physical infrastructures that can be elastically provisioned and released. VMware's vCloud Air On Demand is fully compliant because capabilities can be elastically provisioned and released. VMware's SaaS Products i.e.
AirWatch, does comply but the NIST requirement is not relevant to SaaS offerings. Note the vCloud Air Hybrid Cloud Manager is not Applicable.
FireEye FireEye cloud environments are continuously monitored by cloud service operations (CSO) personnel to help ensure secure operation and available of the system. Capacity is actively monitored and pro-active upscaling is conducted to ensure resources are always available to endusers. Procedures are in-place for rapidly adding resources in the event the infrastructure approaches capacity.
VirtueStream Virtustream’s self-service portal, ticketing system and also the Technical Account Manager, who is the single point of contact for State of Utah allows for provisioning and deprovisioning of resources and services. In addition, Virtustream is uniquely positioned to provide application level provisioning as part of its standard automation and orchestration tool. Resources can be scaled based on application size, memory, storage, network requirements. xStream utilizes a supply chain to define resource profiles, attributes and offerings than can be provisioned.
8.1.2.5 NIST Characteristic - Measured Service: Provide a brief written description of how the cloud solutions proposed satisfies this NIST Characteristic. Attest capability and briefly describe how measured service technical capability is met.
CA APM Continuous monitoring of all service components (infrastructure and application) is deployed to proactively identify any component or service trending towards failure or approaching capacity. This portion is handled for the underlying cloud infrastructure by AWS with active participation by CA including escalations of issues.
MAA CA MAA systems administrators track the resource consumption of each virtual machine in use. ITIL flows are utilized to ensure service delivery. MAA customers do not need this information in order to use the service, nor do they have access to view it.
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38 CA Agile Continuous monitoring of all service components (infrastructure and application) is deployed to proactively identify any component or service trending towards failure or approaching capacity
CA’s best-of-breed monitoring solutions are deployed and supplemented with vendor specific diagnostic tools where appropriate
24x7 staffed network operation center (NOC) to analyze and respond to automated monitoring alerts
ASM CA ASM systems administrators track the resource consumption of each virtual machine in the cloud. Since this is a SaaS service, ASM customers do not need this information in order to use the service, nor do they have access to view it.
Google Saas, Google Apps is already optimized for unlimited use by all end users. Google ensures high availability, low latency and fault tolerance as a part of the contracted services. No metering or rate limiting would be required as Google does not charge based on bandwidth use.
Paas/IaaS, Google Cloud Platform includes application development tools, Google App Engine, compute resources, Compute Engine and Container Engine, data storage solutions and networking solutions. The pricing model is based on actual usage and that usage can be monitored with Google's Cloud Monitoring Service which also includes options to autoscale a project.
AODocs AODocs is already optimized for unlimited use by all end users. AODocs ensures high availability, low latency and fault tolerance as a part of the contracted services. No metering or rate limiting would be required as AODocs does not charge based on bandwidth use.
Virtru All services in our system monitored for availability, stabiity, security, and intrusion using a combination of tools, such as Dtrace, LogTrail, CloudWatch, DataDog, ElasticSearch and AlienVault.
Salesforce Subscription-based Service
The Salesforce PaaS and SaaS offerings are subscription based and in a per user/month or user/year format billed annually with some of our products offered as total logins per month or by defined number of members billed annually.
Bandwidth
Salesforce is designed to use as little bandwidth as possible so that the site performs adequately over high-speed, dial-up, and wireless Internet connections. While average page size is on the order of 90KB, Salesforce uses compression as defined in the HTTP 1.1 standard to compress the HTML content before it is transmitted as data across the Internet to a user's computer. The compression often reduces the amount of transmitted data to as little as 10KB per page viewed due to the lack of image content. The site was designed with minimum bandwidth requirements in mind, hence are extensive use of color coding instead of images. Our average user also is known to view roughly 120 pages from our site per day. Our application is stateless; therefore, there are no communication requirements in the background once the page loads, like traditional client server applications, e.g., Outlook. Therefore, once the page loads, there are no additional bandwidth requirements until a user queries or writes information to Salesforce.
System Overview
In addition to our Trust site (http://trust.salesforce.com/trust/status), you will also have access to a System Overview, which will help Salesforce customers monitor performance and usage of their own Salesforce org. This overview includes:
Schema - # and % of custom objects and data storage
Business Logic - # and % of Rules, Apex triggers and classes, as well as % of code used Licenses
API Usage - # and % of requests in the last 24 hours
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The above list is of all the possible metrics that Salesforce customers may have in their system overview.
ServiceNow ServiceNow is a subscription service measured by number of user accounts or number of managed nodes. ServiceNow has a documented capacity-planning model, which is used to determine sizing requirements and scaling options. The need to address capacity and horizontal system scaling is in the background, transparent to our customers.
Docusign
QTS Measured service. Cloud systems automatically control and optimize resource use by leveraging a metering capability 1 at some level of abstraction appropriate to the type of service (e.g., storage, processing, bandwidth, and active user accounts). Resource usage can be monitored, controlled, and reported, providing transparency for both the provider and consumer of the utilized service.
SAP Ariba We have an Internal Tools Development Team which has established active monitoring systems with alerting and automated escalation. This includes log monitoring from the backend of the systems and this is tied to established internal processes related to security incident management. The environment, policies, tickets and reports are reviewed under ISAE 3402 assurance audit every six months.
Fieldglass Fieldglass utilizes various methods to ensure the system is available and is operating as expected.
• Our network performance monitor ensures that all servers and devices are available and performing as expected.
• All devices and servers on our network log into our enterprise SIEM tool. All activity is monitored by the Fieldglass security team to ensure activity does not vary from our known baseline.
• An Active Performance Monitor has been built into the Fieldglass system.
This monitor logs all system activity and enables Fieldglass engineers to drill into data such as concurrent user count, thread count, memory, CPU, SQL duration, server duration, client duration, page hits, etc. This data can be drilled into by day, hour, minute, server, and user.
• Customer SLAs are tracked and communicated on a monthly basis. For 2015 we have a 99.4% success rate in meeting all customer page response time SLAs.
Hanna SAP HEC services are measured via SAP solution manager and reports are shared with the customer on a monthly basis as well as via self-service reports. SAP HEC operations team monitors the customer landscape and any disruption is addressed after reaching out to the customer and associated approval.
SuccessFactors Our hosting sites are designed to accommodate customers desiring a high level of managed service performance. In order to achieve such a level of performance, proactive monitoring is available through a variety of on-line tools that are implemented and managed by Cloud Operations. At a customer management level, the Cloud Operations monitors a series of “key metrics” that measure the results of various processes involved in supporting the business operations and service reliability. These metrics include reports of transaction volumes, latency, system availability, capacity, change management, and help incident response times as compared with established service level goals and standards.
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40 a variety of services to monitor and enhance application performance. The network makes extensive use of high availability architecture, and is monitored on a 24x7 basis at multiple levels.
We utilize real time web applications performance monitoring software to do the following:
Sample web traffic in real time via performance analysis software Track web application errors, (e.g. http 4xx-5xx errors) Monitor end-to-end user performance trends
Detailed session analysis for session troubleshooting
This data is reviewed on a daily and weekly basis by Operations Support, and is further supported with automated alerts. We proactively gather performance statistics, set triggers to alert on capacity thresholds, and regularly review utilization trends for capacity planning.
VMware VMware's provides automatic monitoring and metering services to their IaaS and SaaS offerings.
Note the vCloud Hybrid Manager is not applicable as it is not metered, because it is for management.
FireEye FireEye cloud environments are continuously monitored by cloud service operations (CSO) personnel to help ensure secure operation and availability of the system. An internal monitoring system operates 24 hours per day to assess system availability and performance. The system is configured to send email alert notifications to FireEye operations personnel on a real-time basis communicating potential issues with the production systems.
VirtueStream The fundamental of Virtustream solution is based on uVM Technology, which is very unique in terms of billing. Virtustream solution takes average consumption of compute resources, and State of Utah would only pay for actual resources based on a monthly average. This is in comparison with traditional cloud solution, where the billing is based on allocation of resources in T-Shirt size (Micro, S, M, L, XL, XXL), and if the server is up, consumer of the cloud pays, but when it is down, they don’t. In case of the Virtustream solution, customer only pays based on the average of vCPU, RAM, IOPS and Network I/O; the key is average, not aggregate and based on consumption not allocation. In addition, all storage, security, application management services are offered as a monthly fee, based on the VMs; also, Virtustream can provide consultative and project support based on time and materials.
The µVM brings significant benefits: enabling application level performance SLAs – which an average VM cannot. µVMs eliminate wasted headroom in fixed size VMs, generating significant efficiency improvements (up to 40% beyond traditional virtualization) and Virtustream only charges by the µVM so you only pay for the resources you actually consume not what you might need.
Using µVMs also enables applications to be used across multiple hypervisors, across multiple clouds and between different locations – enabling true hybrid clouds. µVM technology allows Virtustream to offer enterprise class clouds capable of running both mission-critical enterprise applications and web-scale applications, delivering the full benefits of cloud to the enterprise.
8.1.3 Offeror must identify for each Solution the subcategories that it offers for each service model. For example if an Offeror provides a SaaS offering then it should be divided into education SaaS offerings, eprocurement SaaS offerings, information SaaS offering, etc.
CA APM In addition to the APIM SaaS offering CA Technologies also offers educational services and consultancy services. CA provides education and training services to its clients.
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CA Agile We provide a SaaS offering that is generally used to document and manage work within the SDLC. In addition to the CA Agile offering CA Technologies also offers educational services and consultancy services
ASM CA ASM is a SaaS offering that provides customers with the ability to monitor the availability, health, and performance of network services (web sites, email servers, etc.).
Google Education SaaS offering - Google Apps for Education Messaging SaaS offering - Google Apps for Work, Google Apps Unlimited Collaboration SaaS offering - Google Apps Unlimited
Identity Management SaaS offering - Google Apps SSO
eDiscovery/Archving SaaS offering - Google Apps Vault
Application Development PaaS -
Storage IaaS offering -
AODocs AODocs Team Folders
AODocs Document Management
AODocs Retention Application
AODocs Email Connector
Virtru SaaS email encryption and SaaS file encryption.
Salesforce Salesforce is the enterprise cloud computing leader dedicated to helping companies and government agencies transform into connected organizations through social and mobile technologies.
Over 150,000 Salesforce customers across nearly every industry have successfully transformed their operations including over 1000 government agencies, representing all federal cabinet level agencies and the majority of the United States. Customer examples include: State of Texas, State of Colorado, State of California, GSA, USDA, USAID, and others.
Salesforce was named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Forbes for the last five years in a row. Salesforce is #1 in Enterprise Cloud Computing and #1 in CRM according to IDC.
Salesforce ranks as the Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for “CRM Customer Engagement Centers” (SaaS), “Sales Force Automation” (SaaS), and “Enterprise Platform as a Service” (PaaS).
Government agencies are using Salesforce PaaS and SaaS solutions for a multitude of government functions including grants management, constituent communications and correspondence management, incident and case management, call/contact center management, outreach programs, learning management, volunteer management, project management, and even donor management, among numerous others.
ServiceNow SaaS Offerings:
•Cloud and Infrastructure Management Tools
•Customer Relationship Management
•Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) Tools
•Security
•Workflow and Electronic Signature
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42 QTS QTS has built some of the world’s largest, most robust, and redundant data centers. The company’s innovative 3C product set of custom data center, colocation, and cloud and managed services provides a fully integrated platform and a flexible, scalable level of service that is difficult to match.
Our service categories include:
IaaS Custom Data Center
IaaS Enterprise Cloud
IaaS Managed Cloud
IaaS vCGS Cloud
IaaS Federal Solutions
IaaS Healthcare Solutions
IaaS Financial Service Solutions
Colocation
Connectivity
Critical Facilities Management
Hybrid IT Solutions
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
Managed Services: Managed Hosting, Managed Network, Managed Systems, Managed Security, Managed Storage & Backup, Managed Disaster Recovery, Data Security SAP Ariba We provide solutions that allow enterprises to efficiently manage the purchasing of non-payroll goods and services required to run their business.
We refer to these non-payroll expenses as “spend.""
Our solutions include software, network access, and expertise. They are designed to provide enterprises with technology and business process improvements to better manage spend and, in turn, save money. Our solutions streamline the business processes related to the identification of suppliers of goods and services, the negotiation of the terms of purchases, and ultimately the management of ongoing purchasing and settlement activities.
Our solutions allow enterprises to take a systematic approach with products and services that work together. By combining software, network access and professional services into a comprehensive solution, we help customers to address six key areas of spend management:
Visibility - enhance spend visibility and control across spend categories, disparate systems and corporate divisions
Sourcing - identify top suppliers, negotiate procurement terms, leverage aggregate spend, and manage procurement contracts
Contract Management - streamline and automate from contract creation to compliance
Procurement – streamline requisitioning and procurement across all types of spend
Invoice and Payment - automate invoicing and payment processes Supplier Management - optimize buyer-supplier interactions throughout the spend lifecycle
Fieldglass The SAP Fieldglass Vendor Management System (VMS) application is a workforce management SaaS offering.
Hanna HANA Enterprise Cloud is a private managed cloud primarily for all SAP enterprise-wide SAP applications such as: ERP, CRM, SRM, BW, etc. All SAP applications can be hosted in HANA Enterprise Cloud (via BYOL or Subscription Licensing model)
SuccessFactors Our original product release dates are as follows:
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43 Performance Management – 2001
Goal Management – 2002
360/Multi-Rater Reviews - 2002
Succession Management - 2004
Compensation Management – 2004
Analytics & Reporting – 2005
Learning & Development – 2006
Recruiting Management – 2006
Variable Pay Compensation – 2007
Employee Profile – 2007
Stack Ranker – 2008
Employee Central – 2009
Metrics Navigator – 2009
Goal Execution – 2010
Calibration – 2010
Workforce Planning (Acquisition) – 2010
Workforce Analytics (Acquisition) - 2010
Plateau LMS (Acquisition) – 2011
JAM – 2011
Employee Central Payroll – March 2012
Onboarding (acquisition of KMS) – May 2013
FireEye FireEye is offering 4 distinct cloud solutions that can be classified into the following service categories and sub-categories:
1.Email Threat Prevention (ETP)
Security – SaaS
2.Mobile Threat Prevention (ETP)
Security – SaaS
3.Threat Analytics Platform (TAP)
Threat Intelligence – SaaS
4.FireEye as a Service with Continuous Vigilance (FaaS CV) Managed Security Service – SaaS
VirtueStream Virtustream is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering focused on mission critical workloads and applications.
The solution provides as part of the response is IaaS only. Virtustream’s IaaS is targeted for all virtualized, x86 based cloud solution. While we have secured and segmented infrastructure for FedRAMP, FISMA, PCI and other regulated workload, it is best suited for any and all enterprise workload as long as the workload can be virtualized and run on x86 platform. For non x 86 environments, Virtustream provides Collocated areas, which is cross connected with the cloud.
8.1.4 As applicable to an Offeror’s proposal, Offeror must describe its willingness to comply with, the requirements of Attachments C & D.
Carahsoft complies with the requirements in attachment C & D. Cloud service models by vendor are broken out in section 6.6 of this response per the request in attachment C.
8.1.5 As applicable to an Offeror’s proposal, Offeror must describe how its offerings adhere to the services, definitions, and deployment models identified in the Scope of Services, in Attachment D.
Carahsoft’s cloud vendors fit into multiple categories as listed out in Attachment D. Many of our vendors fit a hybrid cloud deployment method with ability to silo off a private cloud if security needs dictate such. Our cloud vendors are broken out by service model in section 6.6 of this response. Carahsoft’s cloud vendors SOLICITATION # CH16012
44 also fit into many categories as listed in section 1.1.3 of Attachment D. Depending on the type of data and service requested our vendors can support everything from on demand self service delivery to a completely managed and measured service option.
8.2 Subcontractors
8.2.1 Offerors must explain whether they intend to provide all cloud solutions directly or through the use of Subcontractors. Higher points may be earned by providing all services directly or by providing details of highly qualified Subcontractors; lower scores may be earned for failure to provide detailed plans for providing services or failure to provide detail regarding specific Subcontractors. Any Subcontractor that an Offeror chooses to use in fulfilling the requirements of the RFP must also meet all Administrative, Business and Technical Requirements of the RFP, as applicable to the Solutions provided. Subcontractors do not need to comply with Section 6.3.
Carahsoft will be utilizing Subcontractors to provide services and solutions for specific manufacturers within this response. In other cases, Carahsoft will work with the manufacturers to provide these services and solutions to all Participating Entities. All Subcontractors shall be vetted to ensure they have the necessary qualifications to do business within the State of Utah and any applicable Participating States. All Subcontractors will also comply with the applicable terms and conditions of the RFP and subsequent contract, as well as all Participating Addendums for the States they are subcontracting in.
8.2.2 Offeror must describe the extent to which it intends to use subcontractors to perform contract requirements. Include each position providing service and provide a detailed description of how the subcontractors are anticipated to be involved under the Master Agreement.
Carahsoft will use subcontractors as a third party company to provide services in relation to the solutions provided by the manufacturer. No other functions of contract management or execution will be performed by the subcontractor. While Carahsoft cannot determine all roles and responsibilities of the positions for each subcontractor, there are multiple different standards which subcontractors utilize for these types of contracts. Here is an example set of the traditional roles a subcontractor would play on behalf of Carahsoft for this RFP:
Job Title: Consulting Engineer
Functional Responsibility: Working under close supervision, person provides technical or scientific and project support for multiple large-scale projects that cross-cut multiple specialization and product development areas. Applies advanced business and/or technical expertise to assist others with defining, analyzing, validating and documenting complex customer operating environments, states of technology and current engineering processes. Provides advanced technical support to others involved in applying specialized knowledge to complex customer processes and requirements. Supports complex technical investigations through advanced research techniques, analysis or development phases of engineering projects. Works with other engineering disciplines in the development and application of processes to improve quality, reliability, cost customer appeal, and satisfaction.
Job Title: Project Manager
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45 Functional Responsibility: Possesses a thorough understanding of the process requirements and provide both technical and management oversight of the project. Responsible for customer satisfaction, serves as the single point of contact, compliance with the Statement of Work, project planning and management, resource allocation, and reporting.
Job Title: Senior Information Architect
Functional Responsibility: Provides supervision, person designs Intranet/Internet/Extranet architectures and develops implementations plans; administration activity; i.e., hardware, security, firewalls. Implements security architecture using LDAP, SSL and firewalls. Installs, configures and maintains all Intranet/Internet/Extranet tools, databases and features; provides support to e-commerce and other systems. Implements server design, development, and operation as well as analyze and develop requirements for hardware sizing/capacity, data validation, security and integration points to other applications.
Job Title: Information Architect
Functional Responsibility: Designs Intranet/Internet/Extranet architectures and develops implementations plans; administration activity; i.e., hardware, security, firewalls. Implements security architecture using LDAP, SSL and firewalls. Installs, configures and maintains all Intranet/Internet/Extranet tools, databases and features; provides support to e-commerce and other systems. Implements server design, development, and operation as well as analyze and develop requirements for hardware sizing/capacity, data validation, security and integration points to other applications.
Job Title: Senior Consulting Engineer
Functional Responsibility: Provides supervision, person provides technical or scientific and project support for multiple large-scale projects that cross-cut multiple specialization and product development areas.
Applies advanced business and/or technical expertise to assist others with defining, analyzing, validating and documenting complex customer operating environments, states of technology and current engineering processes. Provides advanced technical support to others involved in applying specialized knowledge to complex customer processes and requirements. Supports complex technical investigations through advanced research techniques, analysis or development phases of engineering projects. Works with other engineering disciplines in the development and application of processes to improve quality, reliability, cost customer appeal, and satisfaction.
8.2.3 If the subcontractor is known, provide the qualifications of the subcontractor to provide the services; if not, describe how you will guarantee selection of a subcontractor that meets the experience requirements of the RFP. Include a description of how the Offeror will ensure that all subcontractors and their employees will meet all Statement of Work requirements.
Carahsoft will be making the determination of what subcontractors to include on the NASPO ValuePoint Cloud contract upon time of award. Carahsoft will ensure a subcontractor has all of the necessary certifications to do business in the State before adding them to the contract as a subcontractor. In addition, Carahsoft will do credit checks and meet with the subcontractor on multiple occasions to confirm that they are reliable and exceed expectations as a services and solutions provider. Finally, an agreement will be put in place between Carahsoft and the subcontractor to ensure optimal efficiency with the subcontractor’s responsibilities.
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46 A subcontractor will be actively involved in understanding and shaping any Statements of Work created for the services of a deal in order to make sure that they have the capacity to meet all of the necessary requirements. These Statements of Work will dictate the terms upon which the subcontractor is deployed for services, so Carahsoft will work specifically with subcontractors that are active in the public sector and understand the nuances of selling to government entities.
8.3 Working with Purchasing Entities
8.3.1 Offeror must describe how it will work with Purchasing Entities before, during, and after a Data Breach, as defined in the Attachments and Exhibits. Include information such as:
Personnel who will be involved at various stages, include detail on how the Contract Manager in Section 7 will be involved;
Response times;
Processes and timelines;
Methods of communication and assistance; and
Other information vital to understanding the service you provide.
Security is of the uptmost importance to all of the Service providers that Carahsoft is submitting. Should and actual breach occur, it is the first priority of Carahsoft and the service provider to identify the source of the breach and implement safe guards to prevent one from happening in the future. The Service Provider will promptly notify the Purchasing Entity of the incident. Notification of the breach will be provided by the service directly to the security or customer contact that is identified by the Purchasing Entity. Methods of communication could include phone or email notification.
8.3.2 Offeror must describe how it will not engage in nor permit its agents to push adware, software, or marketing not explicitly authorized by the Participating Entity or the Master Agreement.
Carahsoft ensures that no unwanted marketing efforts are made to customers through an easy to manage opt out system in our database. Carahsoft can also limit communications by vendor to ensure that only those vendors approved by the customer reach out with marketing materials or product updates. Carahsoft will never support or assist in the pushing of adware or unwanted software to participating customers.
8.3.3 Offeror must describe whether its application-hosting environments support a user test/staging environment that is identical to production.
For applicable cloud offerings, user test/ staging environments are available that are identical to real-time production environments.
8.3.4 Offeror must describe whether or not its computer applications and Web sites are be accessible to people with disabilities, and must comply with Participating entity accessibility policies and the Americans with Disability Act, as applicable.
The user interfaces provided for within this proposal are accessible to people with disabilities using assistive technologies.
8.3.5 Offeror must describe whether or not its applications and content delivered through Web browsers are be accessible using current released versions of multiple browser platforms (such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari) at minimum.
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47 All cloud solution offerings within this proposal that are delivered via web browsers are accessible using current releases of common internet browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and more.
8.3.6 Offeror must describe how it will, prior to the execution of a Service Level Agreement, meet with the Purchasing Entity and cooperate and hold a meeting to determine whether any sensitive or personal information will be stored or used by the Offeror that is subject to any law, rule or regulation providing for specific compliance obligations.
Upon request of the customer, Carahsoft can host meetings via Adobe Connect web conferencing software or travel in person if the need presents itself. Carahsoft is happy to support and comply with any regulations or sensitive data compliance needs that the customer identifies. Carahsoft has the ability to limit customer information to a secure and isolated database if needed.
8.3.7 Offeror must describe any project schedule plans or work plans that Offerors use in implementing their Solutions with customers. Offerors should include timelines for developing, testing, and implementing Solutions for customers.
Project scheduling and work planning documents are developed in conjunction with customer requirements. Project planning activities are conducted with a focus on developing a statement of work that defines deliverables, customer and contractor areas of responsibility, as well as project benchmarks, and deadlines. Project complexity and customer requirements determine the overall timelines for development, testing, and solution implementation.
8.4 Customer Service
8.4.1 Offeror must describe how it ensure excellent customer service is provided to Purchasing Entities.
Include:
Quality assurance measures;
Escalation plan for addressing problems and/or complaints; and Service Level Agreement (SLA).
The core of Carahsoft's business is to provide the best customer service to our government customers and vendor partners. We are an IT solutions provider delivering best-of-breed hardware, software, and support solutions to federal, state and local government agencies since 2004. Carahsoft has built a reputation as a customer-centric realtime organization with unparalleled experience and depth in government sales, marketing, and contract program management. This experience has enabled Carahsoft to achieve the top spot in leading software license GSA resellers. Carahsoft has leveraged its vast contracting experience and extended it to quoting and order management. Carahsoft seamlessly generates quotes within 30 minutes or less and processed over 56,000 orders in 2014 that were each completed the same day received. Over the past ten years Carahsoft has acquired and maintained a wide variety of purchasing contract vehicles for agencies at the state, local, and federal levels.
Associated with all contracts are dedicated and experienced contract management resources. Quality and accuracy is the driving factor behind Carahsoft's successin the government market. All solutions proposals and price quotes that are sent to our customers go through a three step review process for quality. The first is a pricing review that is automatically run against the pricing database to ensure pricing accuracy for the proper contract. The second review is at the certified Account Representative level who will check pricing and configurations for accuary and also review any SOWs that are included. Finally, mangagement review confirms the quality and accuracy of the proposal that will be sent to the Purchasing Entity. Carahsoft has instituted an escalation procedure for any problems or complaints that may arise. There are four levels of escalation and include review by the Account Representative assigned to the SOLICITATION # CH16012
48 Purchasing Entity, followed by the Regional Manager of the territory, next to the Vice President of State and Local and finally to the President/CEO. Each stage of escalation shall have a response SLA of no more than 24 hours.
8.4.2 Offeror must describe its ability to comply with the following customer service requirements:
a. You must have one lead representative for each entity that executes a Participating Addendum. Contact information shall be kept current.
b. Customer Service Representative(s) must be available by phone or email at a minimum, from 7AM to 6PM on Monday through Sunday for the applicable time zones. c. Customer Service Representative will respond to inquiries within one business day. d. You must provide design services for the applicable categories. e. You must provide Installation Services for the applicable categories.
Carahsoft confirms and agrees that we will name a lead representative for each Participating Addendum. The contact information will be listed on the Carahsoft website and kept current. Carahsoft confirms it will have a representative available by phone and email available 7am-6pm on Monday through Sunday in the applicable time zones. Carahsoft confirms that it will respond to all inquiries within one business day or sooner. Carahsoft will engage with our service providers to provide design services in the applicable categories Carahsoft will engage with our service providers to provide installation services in the applicable categories.
8.5 Security of Information
8.5.1 Offeror must describe the measures it takes to protect data. Include a description of the method by which you will hold, protect, and dispose of data following completion of any contract services.
Security is of the utmost importance to Carahsoft and our service providers. As an example of our Service Provider's security standards, please see the government security response for Salesforce: Government Trusted Security and Infrastructure
Salesforce understands that the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our customers’ information are vital to their business operations and our own success. We use a multi-layered approach to protect that key information, constantly monitoring and improving our application, systems, and processes to meet the growing demands and challenges of security.
Independent audits confirm that our security goes far beyond what most companies have been able to achieve on their own. Using the latest firewall protection, intrusion detection systems, and TLS encryption, Salesforce Force.com gives you the peace of mind only a world-class security infrastructure can provide.
Third-party validation
Security is a multidimensional business imperative that demands consideration at multiple levels, from security for applications to physical facilities and network security. In addition to the latest technologies, world-class security requires ongoing adherence to best-practice policies. To ensure this adherence, we continually seek relevant third-party certification, including ISO 27001, the SysTrust audit (the recognized standard for system security), and SSAE 16 SOC 1 audit (an examination and assessment of internal corporate controls, previously known as SAS 70 Type II). SOC1, SOC2 and SOC3 audits are performed by third party auditor annually at a minimum. Additional audits and certifications include: CSA ‘Consensus Assessments Initiative’, JIPDC (Japan Privacy Seal), Tuv (Germany Privacy Mark), and TRUSTe.
Protection at the application level
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49 Salesforce protects customer data by ensuring that only authorized users can access it. Administrators assign data security rules that determine which data users can access. Sharing models define companywide defaults and data access based on a role hierarchy. All data is encrypted in transfer. All access is governed by strict password security policies. All passwords are stored in SHA 256 one-way hash format.
Applications are continually monitored for security violation attempts.
Protection at the facilities level
Salesforce security standards are stringent and designed with demanding customers in mind, including the world’s most security-conscious financial institutions. Authorized personnel must pass through five levels of biometric scanning to reach the Salesforce system cages. All buildings are completely anonymous, with bullet-resistant exterior walls and embassy-grade concrete posts and planters around the perimeter. All exterior entrances feature silent alarm systems that notify law enforcement in the event of suspicion or intrusion. Data is backed up to disk or tape. These backups provide a second level of physical protection.
Neither disks nor tapes ever leave the data center.
Protection at the network level
Multilevel security products from leading security vendors and proven security practices ensure network security. To prevent malicious attacks through unmonitored ports, external firewalls allow only http and https traffic on ports 80 and 443, along with ICMP traffic. Switches ensure that the network complies with the RFC 1918 standard, and address translation technologies further enhance network security. IDS sensors protect all network segments. Internal software systems are protected by two-factor authentication, along with the extensive use of technology that controls points of entry. All networks are certified through third-party vulnerability assessment programs.
Trust.salesforce.com is the Salesforce community’s home for real-time information on system performance and security. On this site you'll find:
● Live and historical data on system performance
● Up-to-the minute information on planned maintenance
● Phishing, malicious software, and social engineering threats ● Best security practices for your organization
● Information on how we safeguard your data
8.5.2 Offeror must describe how it intends to comply with all applicable laws and related to data privacy and security.
Carahsoft is happy to support and comply with any regulations or sensitive data compliance needs that the customer identifies. Carahsoft has the ability to limit customer information to a secure and isolated database if needed. Under no circumstances will Carahsoft ever publish or release secure customer data.
Carahsoft’s cloud vendors are all FIPS certified or have equivalent security standards in place to ensure no customer data is released outside of the secure cloud.
8.5.3 Offeror must describe how it will not access a Purchasing Entity’s user accounts or data, except in the course of data center operations, response to service or technical issues, as required by the express terms of the Master Agreement, the applicable Participating Addendum, and/or the applicable Service Level Agreement.
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50 Carahsoft will use customer accounts and data only in the processing of an order and management of the customer’s service entitlements. Carahsoft’s vendors, as outlined in their specific Master Agreements, only us customer account data for the express purpose of providing the service to the customer. Included in that service is implementation, technical support, and training efforts. Under no circumstances will Carahsoft or its cloud partners use customer information outside of normal operating procedures.
8.6 Privacy and Security
8.6.1 Offeror must describe its commitment for its Solutions to comply with NIST, as defined in NIST Special Publication 800-145, and any other relevant industry standards, as it relates to the Scope of Services described in Attachment D, including supporting the different types of data that you may receive.
CA APM CA technologies understands that security is a top concern when evaluating cloudbased applications, which is why CA technologies operations worldwide conform to rigorous certification, compliance and security programs and processes. In addition, we contract with independent auditors to regularly evaluate and validate the security of our service. High risks are identified, validated and remediated before production systems are made available. Medium risks are evaluated and resolved on a priority basis.
MAA
CA Agile We use CIS and NIST standards as baselines for hardening our systems. We are currently working towards a NIST 800-53r4 certification however this is not yet complete. We are continuously reviewing our compliance with these standards. We perform monthly scans against our Production Infrastructure based on CIS standards.
We scan for both vulnerabilites and compliance best practices bases on NIST 800- 53v4 standards. Vulnerabilites are tracked and remidiated based on severity and risk.
ASM Please see our response to APM/MAA
Google Google's currently maintains a FedRAMP Authorization to Operate. FedRAMP incorporates the relevant NIST SP and FIPS security requirements. Further, Google contractually commits to maintaining SOC2 and ISO27001 certifications.
AODocs AODocs is committed to comply SOC2 type 2.
Virtru Virtru's business depends on its ability to support healthcare and criminal justice markets, which requires us to maintain compliance with HIPAA and CJIS standards which both make extensive use of NIST standards
Salesforce On May 23, 2014 Salesforce achieved a FedRAMP Agency Authority to Operate at the moderate impact level (as described in FIPS 199 and 200) issued by Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Salesforce Government Cloud. Additionally, on May 15, 2015, HHS, as the FedRAMP authorizing agency, approved the Salesforce Government Cloud authorization package that was updated based on annual attestation requirements and updates to the FedRAMP baseline which is FISMA compliant and based on the current release of NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4.
Salesforce provides contractual assurance to its customers that the Customer Data hosted in Salesforce’s services will be kept confidential and not accessed by third parties except under narrow circumstances (such as a customer support issue or as required by law). In the case of customer support, the company's personnel will access a customer's Org only with prior approval and subject to confidentiality obligations.
ServiceNow ServiceNow is a cloud service provider offering a SaaS solution deployed from a private cloud that meets the five essential characteristics of cloud computing as described in 8.1.
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51 customer data. The overriding requirement of the assigned classification is that customer data remains hosted in the private cloud until the customer terminates their subscription. It is never stored anywhere apart from the private cloud.
Customers remain the data owner and data controller for all data placed into their instance.
ServiceNow does not examine, inspect, monitor or analyze customers’ data.
Customers apply access controls to restrict access to data within their instances based on their own requirements and needs, including their own data classification.
QTS QTS understands the growing number of requirements along with the complexity of managing the high cost-risk if you are not in compliance, and makes compliance a top priority. Our dedicated QTS Internal Audit team is focused on helping you define controls and processes to meet your ever-expanding compliance requirements. We are steadfast in protecting your data with the commitment to allocate required resources, technology and controls to not only help you achieve and maintain compliance today, but to expertly support your needs as they inevitably grow and change in the future.
QTS tackles compliance differently. We provide a flexible, integrated approach to meet the IT compliance and regulatory needs across a wide variety of industries – from Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to U.S.–EU Safe Harbor. Our approach reduces the complexity and workload to effectively support their compliance efforts.
SAP Ariba Our security framework, which consists of semi-annual independent third party AICPA audit under the Trusted Services Principles of security, confidentiality, process integrity and availability as well as annual certification by an independent Qualified Security Assessor for PCI DSS, is highly aligned with the NIST controls.
Our security framework and cloud services are designed to receive process and store data sets of a commercial business-to-business nature and are multi-tenant and international in scope. FISMA/NIST is designed to protect US government data that can include classified information as well as sensitive PII such as ePHI and SSN’s or government identifiers.
We practice data avoidance where these data sets are concerned primarily to reduce the risk to us and to our customers but also to avoid additional regulatory compliance which has onerous reporting and high costs which would have to be passed on to our customers. Where FISMA regulated entities can take advantage of our solutions, the data sets they expect to store must be validated to avoid being under regulatory requirements beyond what we can provide in terms of both security as well as reporting.
Fieldglass Fieldglass has based its security program on the ISO 27002 security standard and has maintained its ISO 27001 certification since February 2011.
However, to ensure that a robust security framework was developed, additional controls were added and/or modified based on COBIT DS5 Ensure Systems Security, specific NIST special publications, and vendor specified best practices. Fieldglass uses a SSAE 16 audit with a twelve-month audit cycle to validate that the controls defined within the security framework are operating effectively.
Hanna SAP will show the compliance with the SAP Cloud Security Framework by the compliance audits and/or certification audits only as it pertains to the HANA Enterprise Cloud. SAP Cloud and Infrastructure Delivery’s Security, Risk & Compliance Office has developed the Integrated
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52 Information Security Management System (IISMS) Framework. The IISMS Framework is based on SAP’s corporate quality and security policy as well as the corporate security standards and guidelines relating to information security and business continuity. This IISMS Framework was adapted to SAP Cloud Security Services as SAP Cloud Security Framework (Cloud SFW).
SAP’s security, process and compliance team conducts technical security audits to validate that security concepts have been implemented successfully and to safeguard the usage of newly developed tools.
Compliance Audits
Cloud solutions from SAP have passed ISAE3402/SSAE16-SOC 1 Type II and/or SOC 2 Type II audits (in the following referred to as SOC audits) and can provide the related audit reports on request.
Certification Audits
The SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud has attained certifications according to the following ISO standards are available (related audits are in the following referred to as ISO audits):
• ISO 27001:2013
• ISO 22301:2012
• ISO 9001:2008
SuccessFactors Our IT architecture is aligned with ISO 27002. We are Safe Harbor certified and in alignment with BS10012 and ISO 20000 for Service Delivery. We demonstrate an on-going commitment to protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability (“CIA”) of data from internal and external threats, making us a reliable and secure system provider.
Our secure multi-tenant Software as a Service (SaaS) platform is designed for availability, security, scalability, and performance. Industry best practices and standards are adopted and incorporated.
Our Network also complies with the Authority to Operate as a Moderate Risk Federal Information System by the Office of Personnel Management and Department of Homeland Security; NIST SP800-53 Security Controls; EU Privacy Directive 95/46/EC for EU and non-EU customer data; Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) v 2.0; Safe Harbor.
We provide privacy compliant data center facilities not only in the United States but also as a Member State of the European Union (EU) or a state of the European Economic Area (EEA). Currently, such data centers are certified for ISO27001, ISO9001 and PCI-DSS compliance.
Our security services provide complete and thorough monitoring of all traffic on the network on a 24x7x365 basis, and include security technology, alert services and incident management support. We are audited twice annually to SSAE16 (US) or ISAE 3402 (international) accounting standards.
VMware VMware is fully committed to complying with NIST and all other relevant industry standards including FedRAMP, FISMA, PCI, CSA CAIQ, etc. This is demonstrated by VMware’s track record of pursuing and obtaining certifications such as those listed above. vCloud Government Service has been certified to store and secure Low Risk Level and Moderate Risk Level data as defined by FIPS PUB 199. In addition, VMware is capable of enhancing the vCloud Government Service to meet participating State’s requirements to be able to store data that is defined by FIPS Pub 199 as High Risk Data.
VMware is committed to maintaining compliance with all of our existing and future compliance certifications. Our ability to remain competitive as a software and services provider in the public sector depends upon it. Thus we have established a comprehensive security and compliance team to ensure that we maintain compliance as well as a strong security posture.
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53 VMWare supports regular internal and external audits to ensure compliance with its certifications as required.
The AirWatch Information Security Program is built on the security framework laid out in NIST 800-
53. Although AirWatch is not required to register with any regulatory agencies, we provide a suite of tools for our customer’s to maintain industry-relevant compliance guidelines within their mobile device fleets. AirWatch has recently been awarded the HP-IAPP Privacy Innovation Award for Most Innovative Privacy Technology by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) for our commitment to delivering an EMM platform focused on end-user privacy. To help ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our cloud offering, we comply with the European Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) and our top-tier data center partners have undergone SSAE16 SOC2 Type II audits and have ISO 27001 certifications.
FireEye FireEye has mature and well documented security and privacy programs. The programs include third party certifications for SSAE 16 SOC 2, FedRAMP certifications, Model clauses, Privacy and security standards among others. The data that FireEye receives is only in conjunction with the malware analysis.
VirtueStream The Virtustream Federal Cloud (IaaS) has met the requirements for a FedRAMP moderate P-ATO.
The IAAS is assessed annually by a FedRAMP certified 3rd Party Assessment Organization (3PAO). The annual assessment will review a subset of the NIST 800-53 Revision 4 controls as designated by FedRAMP. Virtustream’s 3PAO shall demonstrate impartiality throughout the assessment to accurately assess the status of all security controls in place.
8.6.2 Offeror must list all government or standards organization security certifications it currently holds that apply specifically to the Offeror’s proposal, as well as those in process at time of response. Specifically include HIPAA, FERPA, CJIS Security Policy, PCI Data Security Standards (DSS), IRS Publication 1075, FISMA, NIST 800-53, NIST SP 800-171, and FIPS 200 if they apply.
CA APM AWS EC2 datacenters annually undergo SOC 3 audits.
The application currently does not hold a Soc 2 attestation.
MAA CA MAA is certified for SOC 2 Type 1 Security Audit.
CA Agile Our data center provider has a SOC 2 audit report that can be provided upon request.
Our application does not currently have such certifications.
ASM Rackspace datacenters annually undergo various certification including SOC 3 audits.
The application currently does not hold a Soc 2 attestation.
Google Google has a FedRAMP ATO at the Moderate impact baseline. FedRAMP incorporates many NIST SPs and FIPS including 800-53, FIPS 199, FIPS 200), and has a specific offering. Google Apps for Education that is FERPA and COPPA compliant. Other compliance standards such as HIPAA and CJIS don't offer certification per se, but are commonly accommodated (i.e. Google will sign a BAA to meet HiTECH/HIPAA requirements, and has numerous customers who bear responsibility for meeting CJI processing requirements). PCI DSS is generally not applicable to SaaS systems (though we can do email hygiene processing to protect against incidental usage), but Google IaaS/PaaS does meet PCI DSS v3 standards. Google also holds and is committed to maintaining SOC2 and ISO27001 certifications.
AODocs AODocs doens't hold an HIPAA certifications per se, but are commonly accommodated to meet HIPAA requirements signing a BAA.
Virtru HIPAA, FERPA, CJIS, NIST 800-53, NIST SP-800
Salesforce Salesforce and the Salesforce Force platform is ISO 27001 certified and PCI-DSS compliant. SOC1, SOC2 and SOC3 audits are performed by third party auditor annually at a minimum. Additional audits and certifications include:
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JIPDC (Japan Privacy Seal)
Tuv (Germany Privacy Mark)
TRUSTe
HIPAA
In provisioning and operating the services, Salesforce complies with the provisions of HIPAA’s Privacy Rule and Security and the HITECH Act that are applicable to business associates. Salesforce’s customers are still responsible for complying with the same in their capacity as a covered entity or business associate using the Salesforce services. The services’ features permit customers to customize use as per a compliance program for HIPAA (including the HITECH Act) and many customers store protected health information (PHI) on our service. From a legal standpoint, some of our customers have asked Salesforce to assist them in meeting their compliance obligations; for example, by entering into business associate agreements (BAA) to address formal legal requirements pertaining to use and disclosure of protected health information (PHI).
FERPA
Salesforce maintains appropriate administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to help protect the security, confidentiality, and integrity of data our customers submit to the Salesforce Services as Customer Data. Salesforce's customers are responsible for ensuring the security of their Customer Data in their use of the service and implementing any necessary customer-controlled settings. To aid, Salesforce offers robust security functionality that provides our customers the flexibility to use the application in a configuration that furthers compliance with local data protection laws and regulations.
While Salesforce complies with applicable law in provisioning and operating the Salesforce services, it is the sole responsibility of Salesforce’s customers to ensure compliance with applicable laws in their respective uses of the Salesforce services.PCI-DSSSalesforce is PCI Level 1 compliant and has received a signed Attestation of Compliance (AoC) for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Salesforce customers who must adhere to PCI compliance may store personal account numbers (“PAN” or “credit card numbers”) in Salesforce, with the following caveats:
- PANs may only be stored in a custom field encrypted via Classic Encryption or supported field types via the Platform Encryption functionality. PANs must not be stored in clear text fields, attached files, or any other location.
- Customer administrators must configure Salesforce features to support their organization’s PCI controls.NIST SP 800-171NIST Special Publication 800-171 is intended for use by federal agencies when agencies are providing CUI to nonfederal organizations (or when CUI is developed by those organizations for federal agencies) for purposes unrelated to information processing. In other words, the nonfederal organizations are not operating their information systems to process agency data, including CUI, on behalf of the agency but rather for other purposes (e.g., when designing or producing an aircraft, performing a study, or conducting background investigations for security clearances).
Salesforce recommends that its customers use the classifications as detailed in FIPS 199.
FIPS 140-2, FIPS 197, FIPS 199, and FIPS 200
On May 23, 2014 Salesforce achieved a FedRAMP Agency Authority to Operate at the moderate impact level (as described in FIPS 199 and 200) issued by Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Salesforce Government Cloud. Additionally, on May 15, 2015, HHS, as the FedRAMP authorizing agency, approved the Salesforce Government Cloud authorization package that was updated based on annual attestation requirements and updates to the FedRAMP baseline which is FISMA compliant and based on the current release of NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4.
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55 As part of the Salesforce Government Cloud, Salesforce is capable of responding to FIPS 140-2/3 cryptographic implementations for data being transferred between the customer’s web browser and Salesforce. Data that resides within Salesforce’s protected boundary does not use FIPS 140-2 validated encryption as compensating/mitigating controls are in place to protect data.
Additional information is provided below.
Data Transmission between the customer’s web browser and Salesforce:
Salesforce employs cryptographic mechanisms to protect information during transmission. All transmissions between the user and Salesforce are encrypted by default with a 2048-bit Public Key.
Our service uses International/Global Step Up certificates. We support one-way TLS, in which customers create secure connections before sharing private data. Secure routing and traffic flow policies ensure that customer traffic is encrypted entering Salesforce until the load balancer decrypts the traffic. The load balancers decrypting the traffic are FIPS 140-2 compliant and are located inside of the Salesforce Government Cloud isolation boundary.
Data Transmission for Backup Media:
Media containing customer data is not transported outside of controlled salesforce.com areas and therefore relies on physical access controls to protect the data.
Data at Rest:
NIST 800-53 Rev. 3 states in SC-28, “Information at rest refers to the state of information when it is located on a secondary storage device (e.g., disk drive, tape drive) within an organizational information system.” SC-28 also states, “Organizations may choose to employ different mechanisms to achieve confidentiality and integrity protections, as appropriate.” All secondary storage media (hard drives, disk drives, and tapes) containing customer data are maintained within Salesforce's secure production data centers until the media has been sanitized and destroyed. Salesforce relies on physical access controls as a compensating control to protect the data.
Primary Data Storage:
User passwords are stored in the RDBMS encrypted via the SHA algorithm with a 256-bit hash. This is a one way hash. The passwords are encrypted by the application.
For primary data storage, Salesforce provides customers with a built-in capability to apply field-level encryption, using 128-bit keys with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption (as defined by FIPS 197), for a selection of custom fields included in the Salesforce Platform and CRM applications.
Field-level encryption ensures the data associated with designated fields is encrypted in storage.
ServiceNow ServiceNow’s security policy is based on ISO27001:2013 and has been since 2012. ServiceNow also has annual SSAE 16 SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC2 Type 2 attestations with controls being based off NIST 800-53.
The ServiceNow Service Automation Government Cloud Suite is a FedRAMP Compliant Cloud System with a JAB Provisional Authorization. This cloud offering has regulatory restrictions to the types of tenants that can use it. ServiceNow’s FedRAMP compliant and standard commercial datacenter environments are virtually identical. The differences that do exist, such as only allowing access to specially adjudicated US citizens, exist for regulatory reasons not because the environment is superior in some way.
QTS QTS assists with mapping between DOD IT RMF/DIACAP and NIST as well as International Standards Organization (ISO) standards and many others.
QTS maintains control mappings that include:
• NIST 800-53/FedRAMP (Low/Moderate/High)
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• PCI-DSS
• ISO/NATO
• CNSS/ICD/DCID/NISPOM
SAP Ariba We are audited and certified by independent third-party auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for compliance with ISAE 3402 SOC1 Type II, SOC2 and SOC3 every six months. Upon completion of the audit, an attestation letter is issued, stating our compliance. In addition, our primary hosting facility (Equinix) infrastructure is audited for compliance with SSAE 16 SOC1 Type II.
The Service Organization Controls report (SOC) is aimed at three different audiences. SOC1 (aimed at financial auditors) is the same type of report as the SAS70 but also includes an attestation letter signed by both our company and the auditor. SOC2 is aimed at IT and security practitioners. The SOC3 is the publicly viewable web seal to show that we have been audited.
In addition, we have attained PCI (Payment Card Industry) - DSS (Data Security Standard) certification as a Level 1 Service Provider and compliance with the Visa USA Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP) and MasterCard Site Data Protection (SDP) program. These programs were created specifically for merchants and service providers who process, store, or transmit cardholder data.
The PCI DSS is a set of comprehensive requirements for enhancing payment account data security which was developed by the founding payment brands of the PCI Security Standards Council, including American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa Inc. It was developed to help facilitate the broad adoption of consistent data security measures on a global basis. The PCI DSS is a multifaceted security standard that includes requirements for security management, policies, procedures, network architecture, software design, and other critical protective measures. This comprehensive standard is intended to help organizations proactively protect customer account data. CISP and SDP reflect Visa's and MasterCard's respective longstanding commitment to information security.
Fieldglass SAP Fieldglass has achieved the following certifications:
• ISO 27001
• SSAE 16 SOC 1 and SOC 2
HIPPA
Fieldglass does not store Protected Health Information (PHI) on its system and is not required to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
PCI
The Fieldglass application does not process credit card information.
We are not (and are not required to be) PCI compliant.
Hanna Please see response to 8.6.1
Hybris The Savvis datacenter located in Boston, MA is SSAE16 Type II SOC I Compliant.
This replaces the older SAS70 Type II audit standard.
SuccessFactors We have been audited to the SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria. This signifies that our control objectives and control activities have been examined by an independent accounting and auditing firm, and that these controls fairly presented the controls in operation as of a specific date and were suitably designed to achieve the control objectives. Our SOC 2 audits are conducted semi-annually (May, November) by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). We also hold US Federal FISMA Moderate SOLICITATION # CH16012
57 Authority to Operate with both OPM and NTIS. We are compliant with EU Privacy Directive 95/46/EC and are Safe Harbor self-certified.
https://safeharbor.export.gov/companyinfo.aspx?id=26196We are aligned with ISO 27001 for Information Security, BS 10012 for Data Protection, and ISO 20000 for Service Delivery to create an Integrated Compliance Framework (“ICF”). Where these standards overlap in subject matter, Information Security ISO 27001 takes precedence. Our Network also complies with Authority to Operate as a Moderate Risk Federal Information System by the Office of Personnel Management and Department of Homeland Security; NIST SP800-53 Security Controls; EU Privacy Directive 95/46/EC for EU and non-EU customer data; Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) v 2.0; Safe Harbor.
We are aligned with ISO 27001 for Information Security, BS 10012 for Data Protection, and ISO 20000 for Service Delivery to create an Integrated Compliance Framework (“ICF”). Where these standards overlap in subject matter, Information Security ISO 27001 takes precedence. Our Network also complies with Authority to Operate as a Moderate Risk Federal Information System by the Office of Personnel Management and Department of Homeland Security; NIST SP800-53 Security Controls; EU Privacy Directive 95/46/EC for EU and non-EU customer data; Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) v 2.0; Safe Harbor.
VMware VMware IaaS Services
ISO/IEC 27001: ISO/IEC 27001 is a globally recognized standard for the establishment and certification of an information security management system (ISMS). vCloud Air continues to maintain a current ISO/IEC 27001 Certification and has recently issued updated certification for ISO/IEC 27001:2013. Achieving certification means that VMware has implemented a holistic security program that conforms with the ISO 27001 standard requirements, both in the security management system and control activities. The audit of the ISMS was completed by Brightline CPAs and Associates - an ANAB accredited certification body.
HIPAA: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996(HIPAA), which has incorporated requirements from the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) of 2009, established national standards for the security and privacy of Protected Health Information (PHI) in the United States. To help customers comply with HIPAA, VMware offers a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) to all interested customers using our US-based data centers.
The BAA was designed in conjunction with a leading law firm with expertise in HIPAA and provides fair and reasonable terms for healthcare providers, insurers, and other organizations. VMware has completed an independent third party examination of vCloud Air against applicable controls of HIPAA.
SOC 1 (SSAE16/ISAE 3402): Service Organization Control (SOC) 1 reports are conducted in accordance with Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 16 put forth by the Auditing Standards Board (ASB) of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPS).
The SOC 1 framework reports on internal controls over financial reporting for any service organization such as VMware vCloud Air. SOC 1 aligns to the International Standard on Assurance Engagements (ISAE) 3402 international reporting standards. SOC 1 examinations are specifically intended to meet the needs of the managements of vCloud Air's customers and vCloud Air's customers' auditors, as they evaluate the effect of the controls at vCloud Air on the clients' financial statement assertions.
VMware has completed an independent third-party examination of vCloud Air which spans a twelve (12) month review period.
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58 intended for use by stakeholders (e.g. customers, regulators, business partners, suppliers, directors) of the service organization that have a thorough understanding of the service organization and its internal controls. VMware has completed an independent third-party examination of vCloud Air that also spans a twelve (12) month review period.
SOC 3: Trust Services Report for Service Organizations Control 3 (SOC 3) reports are designed to meet the needs of customers who want assurance on the controls at a service organization related to security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, or privacy. vCloud Air has completed an independent third-party SOC 3 examination of VMware vCloud Air. SOC 3 is composed of a comprehensive set of trust principles including security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality and privacy.
Cloud Security Alliance: VMware vCloud Air has completed the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ). CAIQ provides industry-accepted ways to document what security controls exist in IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings.
FedRAMP Provisional Authority: VMware vCloud Government Service, provided by Carpathian, now has FedRAMP Provisional Authority to Operate issued by the Joint Authorization Board (JAB).
FedRAMP is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. This approach uses a ""do once, use many times"" framework that can reduce government organizations' costs, time, and staff required to conduct redundant agency security assessments. U.S. government agencies can now leverage vCloud Government Service to meet the stringent security and privacy requirements of FedRAMP.
FIPS 140-2: VMware vCloud Government Service is fully FIPS 140-2 compliant including hardware which provides its 2-Factor Authentication capabilities.
FIPS Pub 199: As discussed previously, vCloud Government Services is certified to store and secure Low Risk Data and Moderate Risk Data as defined by FIPS Pub 199. VMware is willing to work with participating States that require High Risk Data Storage to enhance vCloud Government Services to store and secure this data.
FIPS Pub 199: As discussed previously, vCloud Government Services is certified to store and secure Low Risk Data and Moderate Risk Data as defined by FIPS Pub 199. VMware is willing to work with participating States that require High Risk Data Storage to enhance vCloud Government Services to store and secure this data.
CJIS: vCGS recently underwent a CJIS assessment by CoalFire, Inc. CJIS is not a certification, it is a policy that must be followed and accredited for each deployment which requires it. The goal of VMware’s CoalFire assessment was to create a baseline configuration that can be reused across any CJIS opportunity to accelerate the implementation and accreditation timeframes.
FERPA: Like CJIS, FERPA compliance is assessed and confirmed for each deployment that requires it. VMware’s vCloud Government Service FedRamp certification and others provide evidence that the underlying infrastructure is capable of meeting rigorous information security and availability requirements. VMware will work with Participating Entities to meet FERPA requirements on a task order basis.
PCI Data Security Standards (DSS): Neither vCloud Air nor vCGS are currently PCI certified at this time. VMware will work with Participating Entities to meet PCI requirements on a task order basis.
IRS Publication 1075: Because both IRS 1075 and FedRAMP are based on NIST 800-53, the compliance boundary for IRS 1075 is the same as the FedRAMP authorization. This, vCGS complies with IRS Publication 1075 on the basis that it is FedRAMP certified.
FISMA: vCGS is FISMA Low and Moderate compliant.
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59 NIST 800-53: NIST 800-53 provides the core controls that must be met to achieve FedRAMP compliance. VMware vCloud Government Service has FedRAMP Provisional Authority to Operate issued by the Joint Authorization Board (JAB), thus we are compliant with NIST 800-53.
NIST SP 800-171: VMware vCloud Government Service has FedRAMP Provisional Authority to Operate issued by the Joint Authorization Board (JAB). NIST 800-171 outlines a subset of the NIST 800-53 requirements, and as stated above, VMware vCloud Government Service is compliant with these guidelines. Since NIST 800-171 outlines a subset of the NIST 800-53 requirements, VMware vCloud Government Service is compliant with NIST SP 800-171.
FIPS 200: Neither vCloud Air nor vCGS are currently FIPS 200 certified at this time. VMware will work with Participating Entities to meet PCI requirements on a task order basis.
VMWare AirWatch
The AirWatch Information Security Program is built on the security framework laid out in NIST 800-53.
Although AirWatch is not required to register with any regulatory agencies, we provide a suite of tools for our customer’s to maintain industry-relevant compliance guidelines within their mobile device fleets. AirWatch has recently been awarded the HP-IAPP Privacy Innovation Award for Most Innovative Privacy Technology by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) for our commitment to delivering an EMM platform focused on end-user privacy. To help ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our cloud offering, we comply with the European Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) and our top-tier data center partners have undergone SSAE16 SOC2 Type II audits.
FireEye Currently the standards that apply are SSAE 16 SOC 2 Type 2, with a FedRAMP ATO in place and full FedRAMP certification in process. We are also in the process of becoming FedRAMP ISO 2700x certified.
VirtueStream Security is the foundation of our business. Virtustream's xStream™ cloud software assists our customers to meet mandatory Legislative requirements, and achieve and maintain SSAE16, ISAE3402, PCI-DSS 3.0, FISMA, IS0 27001-2005/2013, ISO 9001-2008, HIPAA, CSA STAR and other leading cloud certifications and compliance frameworks in the customer's own environment (when coupled with identified operational and management controls).
8.6.3 Offeror must describe its security practices in place to secure data and applications, including threats from outside the service center as well as other customers co-located within the same service center.
CA APM CA technologies understands that security is a top concern when evaluating cloudbased applications, which is why CA technologies operations worldwide conform to rigorous certification, compliance and security programs and processes. In addition, we contract with independent auditors to regularly evaluate and validate the security of our service. High risks are identified, validated and remediated before production systems are made available. Medium risks are evaluated and resolved on a priority basis.
MAA All MAA core servers are behind firewalls; only systems administrators have access to the servers; all data is encrypted when transmitted between data centers. The MAA dashboard and API are protected with HTTPS/TLS encryption, and users are required to authenticate in order to access these.
CA Agile We use a co-located data center provider and within that environment we have a dedicated cage to which only our Operations Team has access. We also monitor all traffic across our systems using HIDS (OSSEC) and NIDS (Snort) to notify of any suspicious activity.
ASM All ASM core servers are behind firewalls; only systems administrators have access to the servers; all data is encrypted when transmitted between data centers. The ASM dashboard and API are protected with HTTPS/TLS encryption, and users are required to use a username and password to login to their accounts.
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60 Google In this DPA the obligations of Google to hold all customer data as confidential and wholly owned by the customer is detailed.
Google’s internal data access processes and policies are designed to prevent unauthorized persons and/or systems from gaining access to systems used to process personal data. Google aims to design its systems to: (i) only allow authorized persons to access data they are authorized to access; and (ii) ensure that personal data cannot be read, copied, altered or removed without authorization during processing, use and after recording. The systems are designed to detect any inappropriate access. Google employs a centralized access management system to control personnel access to production servers, and only provides access to a limited number of authorized personnel. LDAP, Kerberos and a proprietary system utilizing RSA keys are designed to provide Google with secure and flexible access mechanisms. These mechanisms are designed to grant only approved access rights to site hosts, logs, data and configuration information. Google requires the use of unique user IDs, strong passwords; two factor authentication and carefully monitored access lists to minimize the potential for unauthorized account use. The granting or modification of access rights is based on: the authorized personnel’s job responsibilities; job duty requirements necessary to perform authorized tasks; a need to know basis; and must be in accordance with Google’s internal data access policies and training. Approvals are managed by workflow tools that maintain audit records of all changes. Access to systems is logged to create an audit trail for accountability. Where passwords are employed for authentication (e.g., login to workstations), password policies that follow at least industry standard practices are implemented.
These standards include password expiry, restrictions on password reuse and sufficient password strength. For access to extremely sensitive information (e.g., credit card data), Google uses hardware tokens.
AODocs AODocs being built in Google AppEngine and Google Drive.
Virtru Please see the Virtru Security Policies and Procedures and the Virtru Privacy Policies and Procedures provided in the Supplemental Information section of this response.
Salesforce Government Trusted Security and Infrastructure Salesforce understands that the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our customers’ information are vital to their business operations and our own success. We use a multi-layered approach to protect that key information, constantly monitoring and improving our application, systems, and processes to meet the growing demands and challenges of security.
Independent audits confirm that our security goes far beyond what most companies have been able to achieve on their own. Using the latest firewall protection, intrusion detection systems, and TLS encryption, Salesforce Force.com gives you the peace of mind only a world-class security infrastructure can provide.
Third-party validation
Security is a multidimensional business imperative that demands consideration at multiple levels, from security for applications to physical facilities and network security. In addition to the latest technologies, world-class security requires ongoing adherence to best-practice policies. To ensure this adherence, we continually seek relevant third-party certification, including ISO 27001, the SysTrust audit (the recognized standard for system security), and SSAE 16 SOC 1 audit (an examination and assessment of internal corporate controls, previously known as SAS 70 Type II).
SOC1, SOC2 and SOC3 audits are performed by third party auditor annually at a minimum.
Additional audits and certifications include: CSA ‘Consensus Assessments Initiative’, JIPDC (Japan Privacy Seal), Tuv (Germany Privacy Mark), and TRUSTe.
Protection at the application level
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61 Salesforce protects customer data by ensuring that only authorized users can access it.
Administrators assign data security rules that determine which data users can access. Sharing models define company-wide defaults and data access based on a role hierarchy. All data is encrypted in transfer. All access is governed by strict password security policies. All passwords are stored in SHA 256 one-way hash format. Applications are continually monitored for security violation attempts.
Protection at the facilities level
Salesforce security standards are stringent and designed with demanding customers in mind, including the world’s most security-conscious financial institutions. Authorized personnel must pass through five levels of biometric scanning to reach the Salesforce system cages. All buildings are completely anonymous, with bullet-resistant exterior walls and embassy-grade concrete posts and planters around the perimeter. All exterior entrances feature silent alarm systems that notify law enforcement in the event of suspicion or intrusion. Data is backed up to disk or tape. These backups provide a second level of physical protection. Neither disks nor tapes ever leave the data center.
Protection at the network level
Multilevel security products from leading security vendors and proven security practices ensure network security. To prevent malicious attacks through unmonitored ports, external firewalls allow only http and https traffic on ports 80 and 443, along with ICMP traffic. Switches ensure that the network complies with the RFC 1918 standard, and address translation technologies further enhance network security. IDS sensors protect all network segments. Internal software systems are protected by two-factor authentication, along with the extensive use of technology that controls points of entry. All networks are certified through third-party vulnerability assessment programs.
Secure Data Centers
Data centers provide only power, environmental controls, and physical security. Salesforce employees manage all other aspects of the service at the data centers. Colocation data center personnel do not have network or logon access to the Salesforce systems. Colocation personnel have physical access to the
Salesforce secure server room in the event of an emergency, but do not have keys to the individual racks containing hardware. Data centers maintain a common baseline of physical and environmental controls across data centers.
The exterior perimeter of each anonymous data center building is bullet resistant, has concrete vehicle barriers, closed-circuit television coverage, alarm systems, and manned 24/7 guard stations that together help defend against non-entrance attack points. Inside each building, multiple biometric scans and guards limit access through interior doors and to the Salesforce secure rooms at all times.
Access to Salesforce’s secure server rooms in the datacenter is authorized based on position or role. Additional access controls enforced by an electronic key box are implemented for the dedicated Salesforce Government Cloud racks to ensure that access is limited to Qualified U.S.
Citizens. Salesforce has an established process to review data center access logs to the server room. Additionally, an at
least annual assessment of the data center is performed to ensure the data centers are meeting Salesforce’s security control requirements.
In addition to securing the data center locations, it is critical that the data center facilities maintain robust critical infrastructure to support Salesforce through the following services:
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• Humidity and temperature control
• Redundant (N+1) cooling system
Power
• Underground utility power feed
• Redundant (N+1) CPS/UPS systems
• Redundant power distribution units (PDUs)
• Redundant (N+1) diesel generators with on-site diesel fuel storage Secure Network Logistics
• Concrete vaults for fiber entry
• Redundant internal networks
• Network neutral; connects to all major carriers and located near major Internet hubs • High bandwidth capacity
Fire Detection and Suppression
• VESDA (very early smoke detection apparatus)
• Dual-alarmed, dual-interlock, multi-zone, pre-action dry pipe water-based fire suppression ServiceNow The ServiceNow cloud is built for the enterprise customer with every aspect aimed towards meeting the customer’s demand for reliability, availability and security. ServiceNow’s comprehensive approach to address this demand is enabled by the following: (a) ServiceNow’s robust cloud infrastructure runs on its own applications and utilizes industry best-of-breed technology to automate mission critical functionalities in the cloud service with around-the-clock and around-the-world delivery; (b) ServiceNow achieves flexibility and control in its ability to deliver a stable user experience to the customer by having a logical single tenant architecture; (c) ServiceNow’s application development which has a paramount focus on quality, security, and the user experience is closely connected to the operations of delivering those applications in a reliable and secure cloud environment; (d) ServiceNow invests in a comprehensive compliance strategy that allows its customers to attain their own compliance to applicable laws by obtaining attestations and certifications and running its subscription service from paired data centers situated close to where its customers are located; and (e) ServiceNow’s homogeneous environment where all applications are on a single platform offers ServiceNow a competitive advantage in being able to concentrate its efforts to make the customer’s user experience the best possible.
The “Data Security Guide” contained within the “Subscription Service Guide” included with this response describes the measures ServiceNow takes to protect Customer Data when it resides in the ServiceNow cloud.
QTS The QTS Information System Security Officer (ISSO) develops, disseminates, annually reviews and updates a formal, documented access control policy; System and Communications Protection and addresses the following:
•Purpose and scope
•Roles, responsibilities
•Compliance
QTS develops, disseminates, and annually reviews/updates a formal, documented security policy executive summary, SP Executive Summary - Information System Security Program Policies, which addresses:
•management commitment
•coordination among customer entities
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63 QTS cloud’s Policies are maintained within a biometric secure office located in the Suwanee facility at 300 Satellite Blvd, Suwanee, GA 30024. It is disseminated to all individuals, including but not limited to employees, contractors, consultants, temporaries, and other personnel affiliated with third parties, who use any QTS Information Resource that is owned or leased by QTS. This policy is consistent with QTS’s mission and functions and with applicable laws, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance.
The previously mentioned artifacts are disseminated via a centralized secure document repository among all QTS cloud’s personnel who have any service operations or service delivery role for QTS cloud’s IaaS offerings system environments, and is to be individually or by group reviewed semi-annually, especially by any personnel who have administrative access.
QTS can provide its Information Security Policies as required:
• IT_POL_03_System_and_Communications_Protection_Policy (v1.2 – 1/17/14) SAP Ariba We are committed to the security and integrity of customer information. We utilize security measures to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of the information under our control. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and facilitate the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect within the solution.
Fieldglass Please see the Fieldglass Security and Hosting Overview provided in the Supplemental Information section of this response.
Hanna Communication between data centers is via VPN or MPLS; VPN is encrypted by default and MPLS can be encrypted as well.
Internet facing customer systems are protected by perimeter protection systems using technologies such as web application firewall (WAF) or intrusion prevention systems (IPS). Perimeter protection systems operate by monitoring traffic and blocking attaches towards SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud customer systems.
Hybris Both IDS and IPS are included the SAP Hybris Commerce, Cloud Edition The security infrastructure includes firewall security and hardened security policies on all servers. Log management procedures are in-place for log review for firewall, applications, network devices, including file-integrity management. SAP Hybris utilizes technologies from leading security firms for Log Management and File Integrity Management. SAP Hybris employs twofactor authentication across its network. SAP Hybris undergoes vulnerability and penetration testing. SAP Hybris validates against requirements for PCI DSS 2.0.
The infrastructure also includes Web Application Firewalls and DDoS Mitigation Services.
In addition, security policies and change management policies are in-place ensuring that all access and changes to customer systems and information is accessible only by SAP Hybris staff with access authorization.
Security of the software application which is controlled by the Customer (or its implementation partner) remains the responsibility of the Customer.
SuccessFactors Technologies and measures used to help protect the security of customer data include:
Redundant firewalls in a dedicated environment
Network intrusion detection to help guard against attacks by monitoring all data center traffic around-the-clock and notifying operations and security teams in the event of an imminent threat
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64 Penetration testing at least annually
Security teams monitoring the infrastructure 24x7x365
Any security issues discovered are reported in real time to information security staff and IT management, entered into our ticketing system for follow-up investigation, and tracked to resolution. All actions taken to resolve the problem are documented, allowing all problems to be tracked to completion.
We provide application level memory separation between each client instance as well as data level segmentation and separation with each customer's data residing in its own schema and table space at the database tier. The database tier provides isolation and security of data, and the use of application clustering provides availability, reliability and scalability.
Each customer’s data is maintained in a separate database schema with its own discrete set of tables, facilitating a high degree of data isolation thus preventing potential for data segmentation breaches
Flexibility to backup individual customer table spaces without affecting adjacent customers
Each schema has separate authentication credentials and assigned resource profile to restrict access rights and resource consumption VMware The VMWare Approach to Compliance
Many organizations have initiatives to virtualize their Information Technology (IT) infrastructure, or to move to a Cloud Computing model. However, these initiatives are often complicated by the increasing number of regulatory compliance requirements, which require protection of data such as PCI, HIPAA, FISMA, DIACAP, FedRAMP, GLBA, and other State and Federal requirements.
Organizations are increasingly concerned with the complexity, risk, and impact that a new technology can bring to their existing environments.
VMware addresses these challenges by establishing a Compliance Reference Architecture Framework (RAF) that provides a consistent method for VMware, its partners, and customers to assess and evaluate the impact of regulations on virtual and cloud environments. The intent of the RAF is to provide a single framework for VMware, its partners, and organizations to address a variety of compliance requirements across an IT infrastructure.
We designed our security architecture using a defense-in-depth approach to implement multiple layers of security throughout the SaaS environment and to mitigate any potential attacks through multiple safeguards, including:
• Access control mechanisms, firewalls, anti-virus/malware software, auditing mechanisms, network controls, maintaining defined configuration settings, etc.
We perform regular internal scans to assess the vulnerability of our internal network.
FireEye All data is stored within locked and monitored cages in secure data centers. Customer data is restricted to a need to know basis. Data is logically tagged and virtually segregated in our cloud services. Access is managed and only given to those with need to know including internal employees and customers.
VirtueStream All data for this environment will remain in the United States. Customers can elect Intel's TxT technology to demonstrate geo-fencing of data to specific data centers.
Virtustream data centers are physically accessible by designated employees and approved employees only. Virtustream employees who are assigned to the data center are issued a proximity card which is required to access the data center. Once inside, physical access to the data processing areas is further restricted to specific employees. Physical access to the data processing areas is protected by biometric locks on the doors. Data center personnel maintain a list of all approved personnel who have access to the data center offices and who have access to the data processing areas.
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65 zone. Virtustream does not process, store, or disseminate customer data within the Virtustreamcontrolled management zone.
Virtustream invokes a defense-in-depth model for monitoring the management zone with tools such as Splunk, Trend Micro, Fortinet, and Tenable. These tools are available for customers to select as a managed service.
8.6.4 Offeror must describe its data confidentiality standards and practices that are in place to ensure data confidentiality. This must include not only prevention of exposure to unauthorized personnel, but also managing and reviewing access that administrators have to stored data. Include information on your hardware policies (laptops, mobile etc).
CA APM All personnel with access to client data undergo annual, mandatory security training and are covered under the CA Technologies NDA. Violations of security policies are grounds for termination. All access to data and other resources used to deliver the service are granted under the least principle.
MAA Customer accounts are password protected, and users can only access their data in their accounts. System administrators have access to MAA servers, and database administrators have access to database servers. Account access is reviewed periodically.
CA Agile All customer data is treated as confidental and as a policy we do not access customer data without explicit written consent. Access to systems containing customer data is restricted to our Operations Team according to our Elevated Permissions Policy.
ASM Customer accounts are password protected, and users can only access their data in their accounts. System administrators have access to ASM servers, and database administrators have access to database servers. Account access is reviewed periodically. All data on CA laptops are encrypted and a PIN is required to boot.
AODocs The data stored in Google AppEngine are backed up every day.
The application is hosted on Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and benefits from the network security.
Virtru See 'Virtru Security Policies and Procedures' and 'Virtru Privacy Policies and Procedures' Salesforce Logical Access Control
Salesforce provides contractual assurance to its customers that the data hosted in the Salesforce Services will be kept confidential and not accessed except under narrow circumstances (such as a support issue) and only for a set amount of time chosen by customer. In such circumstances, we will access your org only with prior approval and subject to a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).
To protect against access through the application, Salesforce employees don't have access at the application level for any customers, unless the customer grants access through the “login as” feature.
Access to the production environment infrastructure is restricted to a very limited number of fulltime Salesforce employees required to manage the service. Salesforce's Technical Operations team and Release Managers have logical access to servers. These employees must authenticate to the production environment via a secure server (Secure Global Desktop) using 2 points of RSA two-factor authentication. This tool provides pixel data only to these administrators. Systems access is role-based and controlled and logged. DBAs do not have login access to customer's instances (org) and do not see customer data in an assembled manner. They manage the system in aggregate-performance tuning, allocating space, building indices, etc. The Oracle tables and rows in our infrastructure do not reflect the view of a single customer instance (org) since we are multi-tenant and the data is spread across multiple disk arrays.
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66 Database administrator account activity is logged. These logs are sent to the security information and event management (SIEM) system. These database activities logs are reviewed for appropriateness by the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) team on a regular basis. This log data is also available as a forensic audit trail to support CSIRT during incident investigations.
A customer's instance (org) of Salesforce is an aggregate of the raw data. The data model is very complicated, normalized, and the rows are identified by base62 encoded keys (primary and foreign). Re-establishing data ownership and a business context for the data would be very difficult to do at the database level. In order to reassemble any given customer's application (org), someone would need access to our source code in order to reassemble the raw data in a manner that could be interpreted and understood, and would need the entire set of tapes or disks/arrays supporting a given Instance, as the data for any one customer is spread across several tapes/disks. Data center engineers with physical access to the servers do not have logical access to the production environment and administrators with logical access to the systems do not have physical access to the data centers.
ServiceNow ServiceNow applies the same data classification for all hosted customer data. ServiceNow does not inspect or monitor its customers’ information and therefore has no ability to sub-classify customer data. The overriding requirement of the assigned classification is that customer data remains hosted in the private cloud until the customer terminates their subscription. It is never stored anywhere apart from the private cloud.
Customers remain the data owner and data controller for all data placed into their instance.
ServiceNow does not examine, inspect, monitor or analyze customers’ data.
Customers apply access controls to restrict access to data within their instances based on their own requirements and needs, including their own data classification.
QTS The customer will be assigned one or more Org Administrators. All users will be configured with RSA AD two-factor Risk Based authentication as a requirement for cloud portal access.
SAP Ariba We participate in the following national and international standards committees:
WebTrust: (2001 - current) The Security, Availability, Processing Integrity and Confidentiality of our applications are based on the Trust Services Principles now incorporated into the SSAE16/ISAE 3000 SOC 2 standards SSAE16: (formerly SAS 70) certification: (Since 2011)
ISAE 3402: (The International Standard on Assurance Engagements since 2014) every six months we undergo a rigorous ISAE 3402 audit by independent auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS): (Since 2008) we have adopted and adhere to the PCI-DSS). PCI certification and compliance with the Visa USA Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP) and MasterCard Site Data Protection (SDP) program
Safe Harbor: (Since 2007) Current on the Safe Harbor list for ""Online Data"" for the ASN and Cloud Solutions/Services
A firewall separates the Ariba corporate network from Ariba infrastructure computers. Therefore, unauthorized Ariba employees cannot access Ariba data from the Ariba corporate network infrastructure. Access is limited to specific roles or functions within Ariba Operations. Additionally, access is managed on an “exception” basis whereby personnel need clearance to be SOLICITATION # CH16012
67 authorized. Access is time-limited, after which time re-authentication is required.
Internally, we have deployed an active monitoring system tied back to Human Resources. Logical access management reports are rolled up monthly and are part of the monthly Privacy & Security board review. All logical access management is subject to review and audit under ISAE 3402 assurance every six months and annually under PCI DSS certification.
Wireless technology is not allowed within the production operations infrastructure where customer data is received, processed and stored.
All corporate laptops are whole disk encrypted. All approved portable devices are encrypted and have a phone home capability which allows them to be wiped remotely.
Fieldglass Fieldglass has the following categories for classifying information:
Confidential - This is the information that Fieldglass and end users have a legal, regulatory and/or contractual obligation to protect or information that unauthorized disclosure, compromise, or destruction that results in severe damage, provides significant advantage to a competitor, or incurs serious financial impact to Fieldglass and/or our customers. Fieldglass will not disclose to a third party without signing a nondisclosure agreement requiring the third party to protect such information.
Internal Use - This is information that, due to a technical or business sensitivity, requires special precautions to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of data by protecting it from unauthorized access, modification or deletion. This information is intended for use only within the company and must be limited to end users who are employed by Fieldglass or individuals that have a business requirement to access the data and have signed a nondisclosure agreement.
Public - This information has been made available for public distribution through authorized company channels. Public information does not require special protection. It is information that can be disclosed to anyone without violating an individual’s right of privacy. Knowledge of this information does not expose Fieldglass to financial loss, embarrassment, or jeopardize the security assets.
Laptops
Every Fieldglass laptop issued to employees and contractors have a DLP agent installed that cannot be modified. This agent detects whether customer data or the Fieldglass source code is being copied externally. Monthly access reviews are conducted by product and file share owners to ensure access is limited to a need-to-know basis. Privileged user account access is also monitored on a weekly basis.
Hanna SAP treats all customer data stored in cloud solutions from SAP as “Confidential” according to SAP’s data classification standard.
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68 corresponding national laws. At SAP intercompany agreements exist, to ensure that these requirements are met in all SAP companies and branch offices throughout the world. Similar data protection agreements were executed with all subprocessors. Personal data must be classified as equally confidential regardless of whether it relates to employees, customers or third parties.
Hybris The security infrastructure includes firewall security and hardened security policies on all servers. Log management procedures are in-place for log review for firewall, applications, network devices, including file-integrity management. SAP Hybris utilizes technologies from leading security firms for Log Management and File Integrity Management. SAP Hybris employs twofactor authentication across its network. SAP Hybris undergoes vulnerability and penetration testing. SAP Hybris validates against requirements for PCI DSS 2.0.
The infrastructure also includes Web Application Firewalls and DDoS Mitigation Services.
In addition, security policies and change management policies are in-place ensuring that all access and changes to customer systems and information is accessible only by SAP Hybris staff with access authorization.
Security of the software application which is controlled by the Customer (or its implementation partner) remains the responsibility of the Customer.
SuccessFactors We are aligned with ISO 27001 for Information Security, BS 10012 for Data Protection, and ISO 20000 for Service Delivery to create an Integrated Compliance Framework (“ICF”). Where these standards overlap in subject matter, Information Security ISO 27001 takes precedence. Our Network also complies with Authority to Operate as a Moderate Risk Federal Information System by the Office of Personnel Management and Department of Homeland Security; NIST SP800-53 Security Controls; EU Privacy Directive 95/46/EC for EU and non-EU customer data; Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) v 2.0; Safe Harbor.
VMware VMware monitors for security events involving the underlying infrastructure servers, storage, networks, and information systems used in the delivery of vCloud Air over which VMware have sole administrative level control. The goal of this process is to identify security incidents and respond to them proactively.
This responsibility stops at any point where customers have control, permission, or access to modify any aspect of the service offering. The customer is responsible for the security of the networks over which they have administrative level control. This includes, but is not limited to, maintaining effective firewall rules, exposing communication ports that are only necessary to conduct business, locking down promiscuous access, and other such capabilities.
Proactive Security Monitoring over Internet and Social Media (e.g. searching filesharing sites for customer data, seeding data with honey tokens) VMware security teams perform OSINT monitoring on the Internet for all VMware products and services. This includes harvesting data from search engines, le sharing, and social networking sites. This data is analyzed for keywords and other specific indicators.
With regards to potential data leaks, the customer is solely responsible for protecting the security of his or her content, including any access provided to employees, customers or third parties. vCloud Air provides certain software and functionality to help protect content from unauthorized access such as firewalls, load balancers, and IPsec VPNs. Customers are encouraged to deploy additional security mechanisms similar to what exists in their current data center to address other security controls such as data encryption, intrusion detection, le integrity monitoring, and other such concerns relevant to the sector and regulatory requirements that apply to the specific business of a customer.
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69 FireEye FireEye has mature and well documented security and privacy programs. The programs include third party certifications for SSAE 16 SOC 2, and FedRAMP certifications, Model clauses, Privacy and Security Standards among others. The data that FireEye receives is only in conjunction with the malware analysis.
Our data protection standards includes prevention of exposure to unauthorized personnel and managing and reviewing all access to systems (not just for admin) quarterly or when employees have a role change. FireEye has standards for hardware and software such as gold images for all operating systems and hardened systems, these are managed and distributed centrally. It also includes supported and managed configurations of hardware and software on mobile devices and acceptable use policy for all FireEye resources.
VirtueStream Customers are responsible for the protection and confidentiality of data within their application and/or system which resides on the Virtustream IaaS. Virtustream customers are logically separated via VLAN and VRF technologies which ensure that different customers’ data is not accessible and cannot be altered. Customers are responsible for controlling access to their data.
Virtustream does not have direct access to customer data within their customer zone. Virtustream employees who are assigned to IaaS must pass a Virtustream background investigation. In addition, Virtustream employees assigned to the IAAS must adhere to any requirement by customers to pass federal, state, or local background investigations if they are to provide managed services to the customer zone.
Virtustream offers an encryption at rest and encryption in transit managed service. This provides an additional level of protection for customer's data within their VLAN, All Virtustream employees with access to the IaaS are required to have hard drive encryption on their laptops. Virtustream performs quarterly privileged user access reviews.
8.6.5 Offeror must provide a detailed list of the third-party attestations, reports, security credentials (e.g., FedRamp), and certifications relating to data security, integrity, and other controls.
CA APM AWS EC2 datacenters annually undergo SOC 3 audits.
MAA CA MAA is certified for SOC 2 Type 1 Security Audit.
CA Agile N/A - we are working towards a NIST 800-53r4 certification but that is not yet complete.
ASM Rackspace datacenters annually undergo various certification including SOC 3 audits.
The application currently does not hold a Soc 2 attestation.
Google SOC 1 (SSAE 16) SOC 2 SOC 3 ISO 27001 ISO 27018 FedRAMP AODocs AODocs is certified SOC2 Type 2
Virtru Vulnerability Scan and Penetration Testing by Cigital and FedRamp In Process sponsored by US Department of Interior
Salesforce Salesforce has comprehensive privacy and security assessments and certifications performed by multiple third parties. The following audits and their frequencies are performed:
ISO 27001 - Annually (3 year certification)
PCI-DSS - Annually
FedRAMP - Annually
SOC 1 (SSAE16/ISAE 3402, previously SAS 70) - Twice a year SOC 2 & SOC 3 - Twice a year
Copies of our SOC reports can be provided to your Agency upon request and under NDA.
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01 - Salesforce Government Cloud System Security Plan
02 - Salesforce Government Cloud System Security Plan - Tracked Changes 03 - Salesforce Government Cloud Attachment 1 - Control Tailoring Workbook (CTW) 04 - Salesforce Government Cloud Attachment 2 - Control Implementation Summary (CIS) 05 - Salesforce Government Cloud Attachment 3 - PTA and PIA 06 - Salesforce Government Cloud Attachment 4 - E-Authentication 07 - Salesforce Government Cloud Attachment 5 - FIPS 199 Categorization 08 - Salesforce Government Cloud Attachment 6 - User Guide - Customer Configurations 09 - Salesforce Government Cloud Attachment 7 - Hardware, Network, and Software System Inventory
10 - Salesforce Government Cloud Attachment 8 - Customer Responsibilities 11 - Salesforce Government Cloud Rules of Behavior - Ground Rules for Security Success 12 - Salesforce Government Cloud Disaster Recovery Plan 13 - Salesforce Government Cloud Incident Response Plan 14 - Salesforce Government Cloud Configuration Guide
15 - Salesforce Government Cloud Continuous Monitoring Plan 16 - Salesforce Government Cloud Security Assessment Plan 17 - Salesforce Government Cloud Security Assessment Report (SAR) 18 - Salesforce Government Cloud Table 4.1 SAR
19 - Salesforce Government Cloud Test Cases (SRTM)
20 - Salesforce Government Cloud POA&M
ServiceNow •ISO/IEC 27001:2013 BrightLine Certificate Number 1980700-4 (see supplemental information section for official certificate)
•SSAE 16 SOC 1 Type 2 (available under NDA)
•SSAE 16 SOC 2 Type 2 (available under NDA)
•FedRAMP Compliant
QTS QTS maintains control mappings that include:
• NIST 800-53/FedRAMP (Low/Moderate/High)
• DOD IT RMF/DIACAP (MAC I/II/III Sensitive & Public)
• HIPAA-HITECH-Omnibus
• PCI-DSS
• ISO/NATO
• CNSS/ICD/DCID/NISPOM
SAP Ariba As assurance collateral, we can provide the BITS SIG and CSA Cloud Service Provider Questionnaire, Our ISAE 3402 SOC 1 Type II, SOC 2 and SOC 3 reports as well as the Attestation of Compliance for PCI DSS are signed by our qualified security assessor and management.
Fieldglass Independent third-party auditors conduct annual audits for the following:
• ISO 27001
• SSAE 16 SOC 1 and SOC 2
Hanna Please see response 8.6.1
Hybris
SuccessFactors We have various third party certifications including ISO 27001 and BS10012.
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The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has developed he ISO 27001 standard which defines an information security management system (“ISMS”) as a systematic approach to managing sensitive company information so that it remains secure. It includes an organization’s people, processes and IT systems and the application of a risk management process. vCloud Air has established and implemented an Information Security Management System (ISMS) based on ISO 27001 standards to manage risks relating to confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.
vCloud Air engages an independent third party auditing firm on an on-going basis to validate vCloud's air adherence to the ISO 27001 standard. An ISO 27001 certificate is issued if the auditing firm has validated adherence to the standard.
VMware IaaS Services
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has developed he ISO 27001 standard which defines an information security management system (“ISMS”) as a systematic approach to managing sensitive company information so that it remains secure. It includes an organization’s people, processes and IT systems and the application of a risk management process. vCloud Air has established and implemented an Information Security Management System (ISMS) based on ISO 27001 standards to manage risks relating to confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.
vCloud Air engages an independent third party auditing firm on an on-going basis to validate vCloud's air adherence to the ISO 27001 standard. An ISO 27001 certificate is issued if the auditing firm has validated adherence to the standard.
VMware IaaS Services
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has developed he ISO 27001 standard which defines an information security management system (“ISMS”) as a systematic approach to managing sensitive company information so that it remains secure. It includes an organization’s people, processes and IT systems and the application of a risk management process. vCloud Air has established and implemented an Information Security Management System (ISMS) based on ISO 27001 standards to manage risks relating to confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.
vCloud Air engages an independent third party auditing firm on an on-going basis to validate vCloud's air adherence to the ISO 27001 standard. An ISO 27001 certificate is issued if the auditing firm has validated adherence to the standard.
vCloud Government Service (IaaS): FedRAMP Provisional Authority: VMware vCloud Government Service, provided by Carpathian, now has FedRAMP Provisional Authority to Operate issued by the Joint Authorization Board (JAB). FedRAMP is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. This approach uses a ""do once, use many times"" framework that can reduce government organizations' costs, time, and staff required to conduct redundant agency security assessments. U.S. government agencies can now leverage vCloud Government Service to meet the stringent security and privacy requirements of FedRAMP.
FireEye We have SSAE 16 SOC 2 Type 2 certification for specific cloud services, and associated datacenters. FireEye currently has a FedRAMP ATO for ETP and are in process for full FedRAMP, and ISO 27001 certification.
VirtueStream Security is the foundation of our business. Virtustream's xStream™ cloud software assists our customers to meet mandatory Legislative requirements, and achieve and maintain FedRAMP, FISMA Moderate, PCI-DSS, SSAE16/SOC2/SOC3, ISO 27001/9001/22301, HIPAA, NIST 800-53, CSA STAR and other leading cloud certifications and compliance frameworks in the customer's own environment (when coupled with identified operational and management controls).
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72 8.6.6 Offeror must describe its logging process including the types of services and devices logged; the event types logged; and the information fields. You should include detailed response on how you plan to maintain security certifications.
CA APM CA has various log monitoring tools that help us keep track of live production systems in order to understand load vs. resource utilization vs. performance. CA along with AWS monitors the service and provides real time alerting when systems suddenly die, or when system loads or response times approach critical thresholds. Logs are kept for forensic examination and identification of trends in order to proactively ensure stability.
MAA CA MAA servers log all activity, and data retention is anywhere from 14 to 180 days depending on the component and volume of logs generated CA Agile All systems are required to send logs to a centralized log server. At a minimum log data must contain timestamps, usernames, IP Addresses, and query parameters.
ASM ASM servers log all activity, and data retention is anywhere from 30 days to 1 year depending on the application and volume of logs generated.
Google This is largely the responsibility of the customer. Google’s obligations, as described in 8.6.4, are to ensure there is no unauthorized access of Customer data. Customers are responsibility for ensuring their end users use the service according to the Customer’s acceptable use policies.
During the onboard process, Customers will be assisted in the configuration controls that are included to enforce acceptable use and security policies and trained in how to maintain oversight on the ongoing usage of the services in scope.
AODocs AODocs does not manage the authentification. The authentification is managed by Google.
Virtru See 'Virtru Security Policies and Procedures'
Salesforce Salesforce Infrastructure Logs
Salesforce internal infrastructure logs are collected by various monitoring tools for activities on the systems that host Salesforce, and include:
Server access
Network access
Firewall management events
Network intrusion detection systems traffic
Cache
Database
File integrity
Network device configuration
Anti-virus detection
Log events are correlated to generate alerts. Alerts are configured to notify the Technical Operations and Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) teams. Security alerts require acknowledgement and follow up, if appropriate by the CSIRT. Firewalls and IDS systems are configured with automated syslog notifications for key events. Logs are archived and are currently stored for a minimum of (1) one year.
NOTE: These logs are not available to customers.
Customer Auditing Capabilities
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73 organization’s applications and data, which in turn can be a critical tool in diagnosing potential or real security issues. Auditing features include:
Record Modification Fields - All objects include fields to store the name of the user who created the record and who last modified the record. This provides some basic auditing information.
Login History - You can review a list of successful and failed login attempts to your organization for the past six months within Salesforce.
Field History Tracking - You can also enable auditing for individual fields, which will automatically track any changes in the values of selected fields. Although auditing is available for all custom objects, only some standard objects allow field-level auditing.
Setup Audit Trail - Administrators can also view a Setup Audit Trail for the past six months within Salesforce, which logs when modifications are made to your organization's configuration. This trail can be downloaded into Excel or as a csv file.
While the Login History and Setup Audit Trail are available for six months within Salesforce, audit trails can be downloaded and stored locally to meet longer audit log retention requirements.
Detailed application logs can be used for forensics investigations by customers. These logs are stored for 12 months and are available for a fee.
Event Monitoring (Additional License Option)
In addition to Salesforce’s core auditing capabilities, Salesforce also offers Event Monitoring as an additional license option. Your Agency can use event monitoring to discover how often and at what times your users are logging in to and out of your organization. This includes insight into what Salesforce applications are being adopted by users, who is logging in and from where, what pages users are viewing, what reports users are running and exporting and other aspects of application usage. This capability helps you discriminate between valid and invalid login requests and also track user login patterns for future reference. Not only can your Agency now better understand how your apps are being utilized, you can also monitor if users download large amounts of data that might put your agency at risk. In addition, your Agency can also determine if an employee is unnecessarily downloading sensitive customer/citizen information, pinpointing the exact time and location of that event. Event Monitoring is delivered as an API-first feature and there are Salesforce partners with visualization tools available.
Use the SOAP API and REST API resources to retrieve event log files that contain information useful for assessing organizational usage trends and user behavior. Because event log files are accessed through the Force.com SOAP API and REST API, you can integrate log data with your own back-end storage and data marts so that you can correlate data from multiple organizations and across disparate systems easily. When using event monitoring, keep the following in mind:
- In the unlikely case where no log files are generated for 24 hours, contact Salesforce. - Log data is read-only. You can’t insert, update, or delete log data. - Use the EventType field to determine which files were generated for your organization - LogDate tracks usage activity for a 24-hour period, from 12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. UTC time. - An event generates log data in real time. However, log files are generated the day after an event takes place, during nonpeak hours. Therefore, log file data is unavailable for at least one day after an event.
- CreatedDate tracks when the log file was generated.
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74 - Log files, represented by the EventType field, are only generated if there is at least one event of that type for the day. If no events took place, the file won't be generated for that day - Log files are available based on CreatedDate for the last 30 days when organizations purchase User Event Monitoring or one day for Developer Edition organizations.
Businesses desire certainty that their data is accurate, complete and reliable, enabling them to meet stringent industry regulations. With Field Audit Trail, customers can track changes at the field level for up to ten years and set different policies for each Salesforce object to ensure data is purged when no longer needed. Life sciences companies running clinical trials in Salesforce, for example, can now maintain a complete audit trail of patient data so they can safeguard the integrity of clinical trial results and comply with FDA regulations. - All event monitoring logs are exposed to the API through the EventLogFile object, however there is no access through the user interface.
Event monitoring can be used with 28 different file types:
Apex Callout, Apex Execution, Apex SOAP, Apex Trigger, API, Async Report, Bulk API, Change Set Operation, Content Distribution, Content Document Link, Content Transfer, Dashboard, Document Attachment Downloads, Login, Login As, Logout, MDAPI Operation, Multiblock Report, Package Install, Report, Report Export, REST API, Salesforce1, Adoption (UI Tracking), Sandbox, Sites, Time-Based Workflow, URI, Visualforce.
Event Monitoring Transaction Security
Transaction Security policies give your Agency a way to look through events in your organization and specify actions to take when certain combinations occur. A transaction security policy consists of events, notifications, and actions. Transaction Security monitors events according to the policies that your Agency sets up. When a policy is triggered, you can receive a notification and have an optional action taken.
For example, suppose that you activate a policy to limit the number of concurrent sessions per user to three. A user with three login sessions tries to create a fourth session. Your Agency can require a user to end one of their existing sessions before proceeding with the new session. At the same time, you are notified that the policy was triggered.
ServiceNow The ServiceNow application writes detailed log information that is stored in tables within a customer’s instance. As this is customer data in a customer’s instance, ServiceNow does not attempt to monitor or view this data unless specifically requested by a customer. As a result the customer is responsible for monitoring the contents of these logs files. The log data is protected in the same manner as all other customer data. Event logs can also be configured to feed into a customer’s environment via ServiceNow’s Syslog probe allowing the logs to be stored within the customer’s environment in a syslog repository or SIEM and retained according to the customer’s requirements.
ServiceNow’s application logging includes verbose transaction logs, these logs are retained within the instance for 30 days. Event logs are stored for seven days and audit histories are retained indefinitely in the instance.
Transaction logs represent every click, view, and system event that occurs in an instance and as a result, will grow very large, quickly. They provide a level of detail that is frequently used for troubleshooting issues with an instance. They can also provide detailed intelligence on the behaviors within an instance. These logs can be downloaded to customers’ environments, if they need to be retained for longer than 30 days.
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75 created events. There are a number of security events as well, including successful login, failed login, security privilege escalation, and viewing of a table. These events can either be monitored manually, generate an Incident based on a parameter or when metric is reached; such as failed logins per minute.
The final aspect of logging is the audit history. Audit history may be turned on for any particular table or field. The audit log table then maintains a record of who made changes when to a table or field and what they changed.
QTS All account activities are logged including account creation, modification, disabling and termination. Logs are monitored and notifications are sent for abnormal activity. Splunk Enterprise is used as the centralized audit log monitoring tool to centrally collect, analyze and reduce the amount of audit logs.
As referenced in IT_PRO_07_Audit_and_Accountability_Procedure (v1.0 – 1/20/14), on-site network and security operations monitoring coverage and audit management process; to include analysis, reporting, and alerting into a central repository provided by a highly available Splunk logging service. Splunk logging service supports QTS cloud information systems for organizational–wide situation awareness. Splunk provides built-in capabilities to filter, normalize, and correlate the large amounts of data produced by QTS cloud, and then allows QTS’s support staff to use Splunk’s built-in capabilities to data mine, log mine, and run pre-developed and ad-hoc reports against the result sets obtained during the data and log mining sessions. Logs are centrally correlated and reviewed from devices across QTS cloud Hosting Environment by QTS’s Systems Engineer or designee.
Specific report categories include:
•Authentication and Authorization Reports
• Systems and Data Change Reports
•Network Activity Reports
•Resource Access Reports
•Malware Activity Reports
•Failure and Critical Error Reports
• Vulnerability Correlations Reports
•Anti-Port Correlations Reports
•Watch List Correlations Reports
VMware VMware IaaS Services
In accordance with our ISO and SOC commitments, change-related activity, including administrative actions, performed on the management infrastructure layers supporting vCloud Air are monitored and logged to a centralized logging server for a minimum of 1 year. Infrastructure logging is in place for customer interactions with the vCloud Air management and administrative consoles. These logs are only for the management and administrative interfaces.
These are not in place for monitoring of individual customer VMs installed within the customer tenant org. Limited logging and activity reporting are available from customer tenant environments, with more detailed reporting, auditing and logging capabilities introduced Q4-2014.
VMware AirWatch
To enable user accountability, we have full auditing capabilities on all environments in the AirWatch Cloud. Customers can use the built-in event log, customizable dashboards, integrated reporting engine and AirWatch Hub to audit the web console and end-user actions.
For the SaaS environment logs, our Information Security Team helps ensure that systems generate audit records containing information that establishes what type of event occurred, when the event occurred, where the event occurred, the source of the event, the outcome of the event, and the identity of any individuals or subjects associated with the event.
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76 records (User ID, date, time, type of event, successful/unsuccessful attempts or access secured files and protect the contents of audit trails against unauthorized access, modification or deletion.
VirtueStream Virtustream offers logging as a managed service to customers as optional solution. The types of services and devices are specified by the customer and a monthly report is delivered to the customer.
8.6.7 Offeror must describe whether it can restrict visibility of cloud hosted data and documents to specific users or groups.
CA APM Users of the Portal are divided into two types: Internal users (for publishers of the API) and External users (for developers). There are a number of pre-defined roles for both Internal and External users that inherit functionality in a hierarchical manner. Portal has RBAC built in that allows you to grant access to different functionality for different users. For example, you can assign a user to role that only allows them access to update content, or access apps but not create them.
MAA CA utilizes IaaS vendor to host the service with strict access controls in place. CA SaaS InfoSec team manages users and their associations with groups within LDAP Directory and conducts periodic access reviews to conform to governance requirements.
CA Agile Our databases are shared but logically segregated. We ensure logical security of access to customer data by implementing access restrictions between subscriptions and roles within those subscriptions to assure adequate segregation of data. There is a plugin available in the unlimited edition that allows the administrator to limit access to the application based on IP address.
ASM Only Public Status Page (PSP) data is stored in the cloud, and PSP web pages are accessible by anyone. PSP data is only sent to the cloud if the customer enables this feature, and they can decide which data is made public.
Google If Google becomes aware of a Data Incident, Google will promptly notify Customer of the Data Incident, and take reasonable steps to minimize harm and secure Customer Data. Notification(s) of any Data Incident(s) will be delivered to the Notification Email Address provided by Customer in connection with the Agreement or, at Google’s discretion, by direct communication (e.g., by phone call or an in-person meeting). Customer acknowledges that it is solely responsible for ensuring the contact information given for purposes of the Notification Email Address is current and valid, and for fulfilling any third party notification obligations. Customer agrees that “Data Incidents” do not include: (i) unsuccessful access attempts or similar events that do not compromise the security or privacy of Customer Data, including pings, port scans, denial of service attacks and other network attacks on firewalls or networked systems; or (ii) accidental loss or disclosure of Customer Data caused by Customer’s use of the Services or Customer’s loss of account authentication credentials. Google’s obligation to report or respond to a Data Incident under this Section will not be construed as an acknowledgement by Google of any fault or liability with respect to the Data Incident.
AODocs The AODocs-specific data stored in the Google App Engine Datastore relies on a built-in multitenancy feature named “namespace”, which define virtual “silos” within the AODocs database.
Each customer is assigned a specific namespace (which is in fact the customer’s primary Google Apps domain name), and all the customer’s data is stored within this namespace.
Virtru Key material is encrypted prior to storage, and those keys are backed by HSM. Decryption occurs only for authenticated users
Salesforce The multitenant architecture and secure logical controls address separation of customer data.
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77 of supporting several thousand customers in a secure and efficient manner. Services are grouped within each Instance; with app, search, and database elements contained. There are appropriate controls in place to ensure that any given customer’s org (application) is not compromised. The service has been designed to accomplish this and is robustly tested on an ongoing basis by both Salesforce and its customers.
ServiceNow ServiceNow includes built in Role Based Access Control (RBAC) that is based on users, groups and roles. The entitlements granted to users are built from fine grained Access Control Lists (ACLs).
ACLs can be built from individual entitlements that include read, write, create, execute and delete as well as a number of other individual attributes. The attributes that are available also vary, depending on the type of object being secured.
Customers have full control of the entitlements granted to each of their users and integration with customer side directory service is possible through the use of users, groups and group memberships.
SAP Ariba Within our solution, specific logging takes place that is viewable by the customer administrator or their designee. Audit logs produced through use of the solution are considered customer data and are maintained within the customer's instance of the database. These logs are retained so long as the customer has an active contract with us.
As a user control consideration, customers are responsible for monitoring the proper entry of data to the solution and reviewing reports generated by the system.
Fieldglass The Fieldglass Audit Trail tracks a date/time stamp for each user as they log in and out of the application. Likewise, Fieldglass tracks a date/time stamp and owner of every transaction that is created, submitted and approved through the application. Similarly, actions that occur within the reporting tool are also tracked, including when reports are created and run and by whom.
The audit trail log is visible by the State of Utah program office. Audit trail reports can be created with Fieldglass' ad hoc reporting.
Hanna SAP has Security Information and Event Management systems (SIEM) for analysis, reporting and alerting. All critical systems and infrastructure components within the SAP Cloud need to log relevant data, which is stored for a minimum of six (6) months. This is ensured via the security configuration compliance checks and event monitoring. General security monitoring is performed 24x7 for all activities. Resulting warnings and alerts are processed via ticketing system and critical events are handled according to the Incident Management Process.
Hybris Log management procedures are in-place for log review for firewall, applications, network devices, including file-integrity management. hybris utilizes technologies from leading security firms for Log Management and File Integrity Management.
SuccessFactors The application logs the following for every transaction: Event/transaction Time, Transaction ID, Event/transaction Type, Event/transaction Status (Result of the event; if failure, includes reason), Object Attributes (Describes the object affected by the event), Originator User ID (ID of the user who initiated the event or action), Subject ID, Process User ID, Account Number, Transaction Specific Elements.
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78 change, the date of the change and the ability to see the data as it existed at that point in time. The data in the audit log can be viewed with appropriate permissions.
We also provide an optional Audit Framework for additional audit logging capabilities. All audit logs within the application are accessible only by customers. Therefore, the review of application audit logs as well as retention periods for the application audit logs are the customer’s responsibility, and can be determined as per requirements.
To detect unauthorized information processing activities, systems are monitored and all information security events are recorded. Operator logs and fault logging are used to information system problems are identified. We comply with all relevant legal requirements applicable to its monitoring and logging activities. All system logs are created with “write-once” technology so that they cannot be altered or overwritten. All system logs are maintained for a minimum of 90 days on-line and a minimum of 13 months near-line.
Inter host communications are secured by multiple layers of defense including segmented separate VLANS, restricted protocol sharing, multiple levels of stateful firewalls, HOST and NETWORK IDS/IPS and constant vigilant monitoring and testing.
In addition, our Operations Team maintains detailed system logs. Our internal system logs successful and unsuccessful requests for access, and our team monitors all system logs for any errors or unusual activity. Activities are logged and reviewed by various mechanisms such as: RSA, SysLog, NIDS, HIDS, OSSIM and database logging.
The system logs are not made available to customers but are used to monitor the health of the application and facilitate a high level of performance. Alerts are responded to immediately and logs are analyzed daily for any issues or anomalies. The system level logs are written to servers in the data center then copied to our operations team on an as needed basis.
Various logging mechanisms are used to monitor database administration activities. Logging mechanisms include: syslog, alert log and database auditing for the privileged role SYSDBA.
All activities are logged under the SYSDBA role which including: start-up and shutdown of the data base, configuration changes to init.ora and also any queries/data extraction. We would be able to identify dba activities by manual review of the logs and database auditing to detect if client data querying has occurred.
All audit logs are created with “write-once” technology so that they cannot be altered or overwritten.
Controls aim to protect against unauthorized changes and operational problems with the logging facility including:
Alterations to the message types that are recorded.
Log files being edited or deleted.
Storage capacity of the log file media being exceeded, resulting in either the failure to record events or over-writing of past recorded events.
VMware The vCloud Air Terms of Service and Data Privacy Addendum's establish the line of demarcation between the responsibility of VMware and the customer as it pertains to data protection. In addition, security whitepapers are made available to customers to further illustrate these points or to establish transparency regarding the separation of responsibility between VMware and the customer for compliance programs such as HIPAA or PCI.
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79 center. A site-to-site IPsec-VPN can also be established to securely tunnel the entire virtual data center back to the private data center. For data ""at rest"", subscribers are provided a role-based access control, whereby specified users are not exposed to the entire infrastructure and can be limited to a single or multiple virtual data centers.
Further details of the controls in place to limit exposure of these groups to customer data is documented within the ATA 101 and SOC reports, available under NDA. vCloud Air has logically separated networks that restrict Tenant access to only their own private networks. The vCloud Hybrid Service has two offerings: The Dedicated Cloud option provides physically isolated and reserved compute resources from all other vCloud Hybrid Service tenants, as well as a private cloud instance. The Virtual Private Cloud option has a multitenant compute resource mode. Both services have logically isolated networking and storage that ensures secure resource separation. Customers have complete control over the file systems and databases they deploy within the service.
Access is technologically enforced and employees are only authorized the level of access to information assets that is required to meet an approved business need or perform prescribed job responsibilities.
• Administrative access is limited to only those users that explicitly require privileged access.
Customers do not have direct access to the SaaS environment; rather, customers administer the solution via the Web console.
FireEye Each of the FireEye offerings include strong access controls including role-based access. Only properly authorized individuals on a need to know basis are granted access to data.
VirtueStream Virtustream does not have access to customer hosted data. Customers control access to their application or system which sits upon the IaaS. Customer would need to create the user in their own Active Directory to allow access by named users of Virtustream for specific system.
8.6.8 Offeror must describe its notification process in the event of a security incident, including relating to timing, incident levels. Offeror should take into consideration that Purchasing Entities may have different notification requirements based on applicable laws and the categorization type of the data being processed or stored.
CA APM CA Technologies documents a plan and associated procedures in case of an information security incident. The incident response plan clearly articulates the responsibilities of personnel and identifies relevant parties for notification. All security incidents will be investigated and triaged to understand where the vulnerability exists.
Software vulnerabilities will be investigated by CA engineering teams; other vulnerabilities will be addressed by the SaaS Ops team in conjunction with AWS.
Affected customers will be notified and given a remediation plan MAA Clients are notified via email of any security incident that resulted in a data breach for that client promptly and no later than 5 days. A root cause analysis is then sent within 30 days. Meeting can be setup upon request.
CA Agile We have a defined Incident Handling Guide which outlines the process and responsibilities during breach investigation. Clients are notified via email of any security incident that resulted in a data breach for that client promoptly and no later than 5 days. A root cause analysis is then sent within 30 days. Meeting can be seutp upon request.
ASM Clients are notified via email of any security incident that resulted in a data breach for that client promptly and no later than 5 days. A root cause analysis is then sent within 30 days. Meeting can be setup upon request.
Google Google’s focus on security and protection of data is among our primary design criteria. Google data center physical security features a layered security model, including safeguards like custom- SOLICITATION # CH16012
80 designed electronic access cards, alarms, vehicle access barriers, perimeter fencing, metal detectors, and biometrics, and the data center floor features laser beam intrusion detection. Our data centers are monitored 24/7 by high-resolution interior and exterior cameras that can detect and track intruders. Access logs, activity records, and camera footage are available in case an incident occurs. Data centers are also routinely patrolled by experienced security guards who have undergone rigorous background checks and training. As you get closer to the data center floor, security measures also increase. Access to the data center floor is only possible via a security corridor which implements multifactor access control using security badges and biometrics. Only approved employees with specific roles may enter. Less than one percent of Googlers will ever step foot in one of our data centers.
Google operates a global, multi-tenant environment running the world’s second largest IP data network providing customers with a low latency, high performing platform that runs 24x7.
Hard Disks are assets that are tracked throughout its lifecycle at Google from arrival to final destruction. These disks are component parts that Google uses to build its own servers from other component parts including motherboards and a harden, highly customized version of Linux.
Google uses a proprietary storage and processing mechanism that isolates processing of data in chrooted jails within a physical server. Access permissions restrict the ability for processes to interact between jails. In addition, tenant data is striped in chunks across many different drives with each chunk having its own access control list. This helps ensure that data is logically isolated between customers in storage and during processing.
In addition to the inherent processing and storage mechanisms described above, Google’s security controls including least privilege rights, logging and auditing have been implemented consistent with FedRAMP requirements
AODocs Altirnao can use multiple notification channels to communicate incident updates to its customers:
the AODocs status page (https://status.aodocs.com) provide status updates on all the AODocs services the AODocs customer mailing list, which can be used to send emails to the technical contacts of all AODocs customers the AODocs support platform, i.e. ZenDesk, which can be used to communicate with specific customers who have opened tickets.
Salesforce Incident Response
If negotiated into a final contract, Salesforce can promptly notify the Customer in the event Salesforce becomes aware of an actual or reasonably suspected unauthorized disclosure of Customer Data. Notification may include phone contact by Salesforce support, email to customer's administrator and Security Contact (if submitted by customer), and public posting on trust.salesforce.com.
Salesforce maintains an Incident Response Plan and has an established Security Incident Response Process. During a security incident, the process guides Salesforce personnel in management, communication, and resolution activities. Government customers can report security incidents related to their Salesforce products and offerings via [email protected].
Salesforce will respond in accordance with the incident response process described above.
Our incident response plan/process was created in accordance with FedRAMP moderate control requirements which include incident response requirements derived from NIST SP 800-53, NIST SP 800-61, and the FedRAMP Incident Communications Procedure.
ServiceNow Unless notification is delayed by the actions or demands of a law enforcement agency, ServiceNow shall report to Customer the unauthorized acquisition, access, use, disclosure or destruction of Customer Data (a “Breach”) promptly following determination by ServiceNow that a Breach occurred. The initial report shall be made to Customer security contact(s) designated in SOLICITATION # CH16012
81 ServiceNow’s customer support portal. ServiceNow shall take reasonable measures to promptly mitigate the cause of the Breach and shall take reasonable corrective measures to prevent future Breaches. As information is collected or otherwise becomes available to ServiceNow and unless prohibited by law, ServiceNow shall provide information regarding the nature and consequences of the Breach that are reasonably requested to allow Customer to notify affected individuals, government agencies and/or credit bureaus. Customer is solely responsible for determining whether to notify impacted Data Subjects and for providing such notice, and for determining if regulatory bodies or enforcement commissions applicable to Customer or Customer Data need to be notified of a Breach.
See the “Data Security Guide” contained within the “Subscription Service Guide” included with this response for additional information.
QTS Security Incident handling capability and process is outlined in the following Incident Response related procedures and plans:
•FED_PLN_01_Incident_Response_Plan (v1.2 – 4/09/14)
•IT_PRO_29_QTS-FC_Incident_Response_Procedure (v1.0 – 1/17/14) •IT_PRO_18_ISSO_IRT_Incident_Response_Guidelines_Procedure (v1.2 – 12/11/13) •OPS_PRO_77_OSC_New_Incident_Creation_Procedure (v1.0 -1/23/14) •OPS_PRO_62_Best_Practices_for_Incident_Handling_Procedure (v1.0 – 12/10/13) •OPS_PRO_72_BPG_OSC_Working_and_Resolving_Incidents_Procedure (v1.0 – 1/22/14) •OPS_PRO_84_BPG_OSC_Major_Incident_Management_Procedure (v1.0 – 1/27/14) As outlined in QTS’s IT_PRO_29_QTS-FC_Incident_Response_Procedure (v1.0 -1/17/14) and FED_PLN_01_Incident_Response_Plan (v1.2 – 4/09/14):
•Preparation activities, to include:
-Ensuring the security of systems, networks, and applications through periodic risk assessments of systems and applications to prevent incidents.
-Increasing user awareness of policies and procedures regarding appropriate use of networks, systems, and applications.
-Sharing applicable lessons learned from previous incidents (particularly those involving malicious code and violations of acceptable use policies) with users so they can see how their actions could affect the organization.
-Training Federal Cloud System Administrators to maintain their networks, systems, and applications in accordance with the organization’s security standards. •Detecting activities, to include:
-As referenced in QTS’s IT_PRO_29_QTS-FC_Incident_Response_Procedure (v1.0 -1/17/14), review and analysis of continuous monitoring tools and related log file(s). -3rd Party monitoring services (Alert Logic): help detect and alert on changes in certain resources (e.g., Web pages) or publicly accessible services, such as Web, Domain Name System (DNS) and FTP servers.
-File Integrity Checking Software: help detect any changes to important files caused by incident -IDS are set up for scanning and detection. Detection is achieved either by log analysis, packet capture review or image acquisition and analysis.
•Analysis Activities, to include:
-QTS IR Team is activated and incident identification is performed -Continued and targeted review and analysis of continuous monitoring tools, related log file, and corresponding applications would be performed.
-If an Incident Response Team is required then at least one member of IT Security along with one or more members of QTS’s IT Operations organization responsible for the affected system, as well as any necessary representatives from Network
SAP Ariba We can provide a general overview but our full documentation is confidential.
All of our security processes and procedures are audited by a third party every six months for ISAE 3402 assurance. We also hold PCI DSS certification. The SOLICITATION # CH16012
82 intent of the following is to describe in a broad manner the actions we take in regard to security incidents, their management, tracking and communications in regard to internal policies and procedures. We have an established security incident plan based on internally-developed policies and procedures where documented results of all security incidents occurring during the six month audit period are reviewed and evaluated against the Trust Services Principles of ISAE 3402 and the PCI DSS standards as appropriate. Upon notification of a security incident, a documentation trail is begun by the InfoSec department and an internal ticket is created as the record of reference. The lead security manger calls a meeting including all personnel required to contain and reduce risk and impact appropriate to the nature of the incident. Tasks are assigned with milestones to be met to validate and determine extent of the incident.
Communication is made to the Privacy & Security Board to alert principal membership and foster internal cooperation and awareness. An appropriate communication channel to affected customer(s) is determined based on how we were notified of the incident, i.e. from a customer, from an internal report or from a third party report. Communication is made to affected customer(s) to include the nature of the incident, actions taken to contain the incident and potential effects of actions if any, in regard to sustained business process and availability of the system. Any workarounds or hot fixes necessary in the solutions are communicated and scheduled reporting to the customer(s) is established with an identified single point of contact within our company.
Based on the nature of the incident, if required, legal counsel present at initial risk & impact meeting, will assist in communicating with law enforcement contacts. The customer is kept informed of the milestones met and at scheduled intervals until the incident is fully contained and no further risk and impact perceived. All incidents are required to be internally managed by InfoSec to include tracking and review on a weekly basis and evaluation of the actions taken in regard to our security concept. All incident reports are presented to and reviewed by the Privacy & Security Board and are formally closed with discussion and evaluation to determine what actions can be taken to prevent similar incidents. Depending on the nature of the incident and impact to customer(s), security incidents are not formally closed by the board until all affected customers are made aware of the incident and appropriate measures to remediate the initial threat are formally communicated.
Fieldglass Fieldglass’ security team is responsible for managing security incidents and all communication is conducted via the respective account managers to ensure timeliness. The process is defined within the Incident Response Management Standard.
Customers are notified of an incident within 48 hours.
Hanna SAP will notify via defined communication channels within 36 hours of a confirmed data security breaches to the affected customers. The report will detail the following information:
• Details relating to the security incident that has occurred, known at the time of notification.
• IT infrastructure and/or application affected by the security incident. • Overview of the performed mitigation actions to restore the security, documented within the incident report form.
• All further applicable requirements by country regulations “on obligation to notify” will be met.
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83 Hybris Upon a breach that directly affects a customer's environment, hybris would notify the customer as quickly as reasonably possible. Furthermore, hybris follows its information security incident management policy as well as Visa's standard process for responding to a breach. The policy includes procedures such as disclosure of sensitive information, disclosure of system vulnerability, public release of vulnerability information, system vulnerability exploitation as well as incident reporting, contacting of law enforcement and forensic investigation.
SuccessFactors We have a comprehensive and approved Incident Management Policy and process. Upon the occurrence of a security incident, initial communication is distributed to the appropriate individuals and an escalation process is followed. Upon becoming aware of the incident, measures are promptly taken by the team to resolve the situation.
All affected customers should be informed within at most 36 hours of confirming a potential breach in the privacy of their data. Following incident resolution, follow-up is required to ensure that the incident has been resolved effectively and that the threat is no longer present.
We are aligned with ISO 27k standards for event and incident management and have formal incident management policies and processes in place. These policies and procedures are tested in the ISO 27k and SOC 2 audits.
VMware VMware IaaS Services
If VMware determines that there has been unauthorized access to, or use or disclosure of, Your Content, or other incident VMware will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify You, taking into account any applicable law, regulation, or governmental request.
VMware will provide security incident response (e.g., detection, severity/threat classification, forensics, and resolution) pertaining to management infrastructure over which VMware has direct, administrative, and/or physical access and control, such as the vCloud Hybrid Service servers, storage, applications, and network devices.
Documented escalation procedures and a ticketing system are in place to guide employees in identifying, reporting, and responding to system availability issues and related security incidents.
This includes an incident response policy to determine severity of an incident and a breach notification process.
All alerting and monitoring at the guest OS\VM level is the responsibility of the customer.
In the event of a data breach customers will be notified by VMware vCloud Air Global Support Services via their preferred contact means. VMware will provide security incident response (e.g., detection, severity/threat classification, forensics, and resolution) pertaining to management infrastructure over which VMware has direct, administrative, and/or physical access and control, such as the vCloud Air service servers, storage, applications, and network devices.
Notification timeframes are agreed upon between VMware and the customer in standard agreements and contracts. Incidents are handled on a case-by-case basis, but typically occur between 24-48 hours after a breach has been confirmed.
VMware will provide security incident response (e.g., detection, severity/threat classification, forensics, and resolution) pertaining to management infrastructure over which VMware has direct, administrative, and/or physical access and control, such as the vCloud Air service servers, storage, applications, and network devices.
FireEye FireEye has a developed documented process for reporting client notification for regulatory, legal and contractual issues once a breach has been confirmed.
VirtueStream Virtustream shall contact customers in accordance with Service Level Agreements (SLA) and contractual obligations.
There are two primary Incident types; Security Incidents, where there is a possible breach in systems or data integrity, and Services, where there is in impacted or affected service. Although there is some overlap, generally any security-related incident should be classified as a Security SOLICITATION # CH16012
84 Incident and the response must be managed using the ‘Virtustream Information Security Procedure – Security Incident Response Plan’.
The purpose of this security incident response plan is to provide general guidance to Virtustream staff- both technical and managerial – to enable quick and efficient recovery from security incidents; respond in a systematic manner to incidents and carry out all necessary steps to correctly handle an incident; prevent or minimize disruption of critical computing services; and minimize loss or theft of sensitive or mission critical information including sensitive credit card data. The plan is also a guide to sharing information with other stakeholder organizations who might be impacted by such security incidents such as the credit card associations and law enforcement.
The Security Incident Response Plan (SIRP) provides guidance to prepare for, respond to, and recover from potential incidents. Policy statements surrounding the IR-Plan are provided to ensure continued upkeep and standardized use. The SIRP guidance at the procedural level defines the roles, responsibilities, communication methods and flows, contact information, types of potential incidents, and immediate actions that are to be taken upon an incident’s identification, and elaborates with subsequent recovery steps. Virtustream’s Incident Response Policy requires the implementation and testing of a generalized plan that adheres to the International Standards Organization 27002 guidance for incident management and response, but meets specific requirements for compliance such as PCI-DSS.
The Plan covers the corporate environment associated with Virtustream’s IT assets, the local IT resources and the IT resources at Virtustream’s Data Center. It consists of a series of guidelines (Incident Response Guidelines or “IRG”) that should generally be followed as appropriate for the circumstances as when a security incident occurs or as part of the ongoing maintenance of this plan.
As the incident progresses and has more impact (i.e. severity level increases), the escalation process will be used to engage appropriate resources. Incidents should be handled at the lowest escalation level that is capable of responding to the incident with as few resources as possible in order to reduce the total impact, and to keep tight control. The Table below defines the escalation levels with the associated team involvement.
8.6.9 Offeror must describe and identify whether or not it has any security controls, both physical and virtual Zones of Control Architectures (ZOCA), used to isolate hosted servers.
CA APM AWS EC2 datacenters annually undergo SOC 3 audits.
MAA Physical access mechanisms (e.g., access cards, biometric devices, mantraps and portals) have been implemented and are administered by local operations staff to help ensure that only authorized individuals have the ability to access the data centers.
Portals and mantraps have been installed as anti-tailgating measures in most of data center lobbies. Entry to and exit from the data centers is through either a portal or mantrap where present. In data centers without portals or mantraps, the security officer monitors the entrance to prevent tailgating. Where present, the portal/mantrap bypass doors are only used in the event an individual is unable to use the portal or mantrap in case of emergency. Examples include handicap, phobia, or other restrictions on a case-by-case basis. Tours and emergency data center security operations crews will be permitted to use the portal bypass door, when necessary.
CA Agile Physical access mechanisms (e.g., access cards, biometric devices, mantraps and portals) have been implemented and are administered by local operations staff to help ensure that only authorized individuals have the ability to access the data centers.
Portals and mantraps have been installed as anti-tailgating measures in most of data center lobbies. Entry to and exit from the data centers is through either a portal or mantrap where present. In data centers without portals or mantraps, the security SOLICITATION # CH16012
85 officer monitors the entrance to prevent tailgating. Where present, the portal/mantrap bypass doors are only used in the event an individual is unable to use the portal or mantrap in case of emergency. Examples include handicap, phobia, or other restrictions on a case-by-case basis. Tours and emergency data center security operations crews will be permitted to use the portal bypass door, when necessary.
ASM Physical access mechanisms (e.g., access cards, biometric devices, mantraps and portals) have been implemented and are administered by local operations staff to help ensure that only authorized individuals have the ability to access the data centers.
Portals and mantraps have been installed as anti-tailgating measures in most of data center lobbies. Entry to and exit from the data centers is through either a portal or mantrap where present. In data centers without portals or mantraps, the security officer monitors the entrance to prevent tailgating. Where present, the portal/mantrap bypass doors are only used in the event an individual is unable to use the portal or mantrap in case of emergency. Examples include handicap, phobia, or other restrictions on a case-by-case basis. Tours and emergency data center security operations crews will be permitted to use the portal bypass door, when necessary.
AODocs N/A because all our data is hosted on the Google Cloud Platform infrastructure.
Virtru We require 2 Factor and Private Keys to authenticate and Virtrual Private Clouds for purposes of Inter-machine communication
Salesforce A customer's instance (org) of Salesforce is an aggregate of the raw data. The data model is very complicated, normalized, and the rows are identified by base62 encoded keys (primary and foreign). Re-establishing data ownership and a business context for the data would be very difficult to do at the database level. In order to reassemble any given customer's application (org), someone would need access to our source code in order to reassemble the raw data in a manner that could be interpreted and understood, and would need the entire set of tapes or disks/arrays supporting a given Instance, as the data for any one customer is spread across several tapes/disks. Data center engineers with physical access to the servers do not have logical access to the production environment and administrators with logical access to the systems do not have physical access to the data centers.
ServiceNow ServiceNow’s architecture is built on a ServiceNow fully owned operated private cloud. This private cloud hosts the ServiceNow platform and applications that are offered to its customers under a subscription service model. The ServiceNow private cloud operates out of colocation data centers that provide robust physical and environmental controls, with ServiceNow staff exclusively providing the logical management. Access to the private cloud where customer data is hosted is only granted to ServiceNow staff based on their roles and job requirements. ServiceNow does not outsource any function that would give a third party access to customer data.
ServiceNow’s private cloud is a highly standardized environment from the identically configured cages in the data centers through to the consistent logical infrastructure. This private cloud is home to just ServiceNow, limiting the private cloud’s footprint to only those technologies required to support this service. This allows for highly restricted networking rule sets regarding ingress and egress requirements and facilitates the ability for hardened systems, only allowing for the small number of necessary services, protocols and ports to be enabled.
A ServiceNow instance represents an isolated logical environment consisting of application nodes in the web application tier and a dedicated database. Each customer will receive at least two instances, a production High Availability (HA) instance and a sub-production instance without HA.
Each instance is accessed via a unique Domain name in the form of ‘customername.servicenow.com’ (for a production instance) and ‘customername-dev.service-now.com’ as a subproduction example.
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86 There is no comingling of any customer data between instances and there is no single shared multi-tenant databases, with data from multiple customers stored therein.
QTS QTS cloud employs security controls as needed to protect the confidentiality and integrity of the information being transmitted by utilizing Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client with SSL (TLS and DTLS) and IPSec (Internet Key Exchange Version 2 [IKEv2]). DTLS provides an optimized connection for latency-sensitive traffic, such as VoIP traffic or TCPbased application access, TLS (HTTP over TLS/SSL) ensures availability of network connectivity through locked down environments, including those using web proxy servers. IPSec/IKEv2 provides an optimized connection for latency-sensitive traffic when security policies require use of IPSec and complies with applicable federal laws, executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance.
The QTS Federal Cloud Infrastructure (QTS cloud) is divided into two separate, isolated firewalled environments, each having its own security boundaries, which are physically and logically separated. These are the QTS cloud Hypervisor Management Layer and the QTS cloud Service Delivery Layer.
QTS cloud’s Hypervisor Management Layer management is made available through dynamic FIPS 140-2 validated L2TP/IPSEC or SSL 3. 0/TLS 1. 0 encrypted VPN tunnels, which are authenticated against the RSA SecurID multi-factor authentication security appliances. Once fully authenticated, only a limited RDP session to the physical bastion host (which is also protected by the RSA SecurID multi-factor authentication security appliances) via jump domains is allowed, which prevents the presentation of information systems management related functionality at an interface for general
users.
QTS cloud’s Service Delivery Layer management is also made available through FIPS 140-2 validated L2TP/IPSEC or SSL 3.0/TLS 1. 0 encrypted VPN tunnels, which are authenticated against the RSA SecurID multi-factor authentication security appliances. Connection to the QTS cloud Service Delivery Layer is only available through dedicated site-to-site 140-2 validated L2TP/IPSEC or SSL 3. 0/TLS 1. 0 encrypted VPN tunnels or Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) monitored dedicated datelines to federal customer datacenters, which prevents the presentation of information systems
management related functionality at an interface for general users.
QTS cloud’s Hypervisor Management Layer management is made available through dynamic FIPS 140-2 validated L2TP/IPSEC or SSL 3. 0/TLS 1. 0 encrypted VPN tunnels, which are authenticated against the RSA SecurID multi-factor authentication security appliances.
SAP Ariba The Cisco Secure ASA5555 Firewall is a dedicated firewall appliance that delivers strong security and performance and creates almost no network performance impact. The product enforces secure access between an internal network and Internet, extranet, or intranet links.
Ariba uses Cisco Secure ASA5555 Firewall hardware and Cisco Router access lists to control the traffic to and from the Internet, between Ariba Corporate and the Ariba system, and between servers in Ariba. The firewall servers are configured for Fail-Over/Hot Standby Setup. Additionally, Ariba uses internally developed Ariba SafeGuard software to protect customer data from unauthorized Ariba Corporate users, allowing only Ariba Operations personnel access for limited periods of time.
Specifically, firewall servers are used in each level of data communication within Ariba:
Between the Internet and web servers
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The Equinix Data Center utilizes an array of security equipment, techniques, and procedures to control, monitor, and record access to the facility, including customer cage areas. All areas of the center are monitored and recorded using CCTV, and all access points are controlled. The Data Center is staffed with 24-hour security officers. Visitors are screened upon entry to verify identity, and escorted to appropriate locations. Access history is recorded for audit purposes.
Fieldglass Please see the Fieldglass Security and Hosting Overview provided in the Supplemental Information section of this response.
Hanna The fundamental security architecture of the SAP Cloud infrastructure is the principal of a private cloud.
Customers receive an isolated, logical grouping of several virtual machines and physical systems in dedicated customer private networks. Customer private networks are segregated from each other using virtual local area networks (VLAN) technology. Customer systems are deployed in the respective customer private network. Though customers are only able to view or access systems within their assigned customer private network.
Design of customer private networks has to be defined in a workshop between SAP and the customer. Multiple customer private networks might be required to separate different tier levels or to implement customer data flow restrictions.
SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud administrative tasks will be done using management networks. Administrative access to the management networks from the SAP internal networks is only possible using dedicated jump hosts with strong authentication.
Security of the SAP internal network including SAP end user equipment is ensured using solutions like network admission control, Intrusion Prevention Systems, network filtering, strong authentication for remote access, internet content filtering, anti-virus scanner.
SuccessFactors We serve our customers and end users from secure data centers around the world. Physical security features at these facilities include a 24x7x365 manned security station and biometric and man-trap access controls. The systems at these facilities are protected by firewalls and encryption technology. Operational redundancy features include redundant power, onsite backup generators, and environmental controls and monitoring.
We employ a wide range of security features, including two factor authentication, data encryption, encoded session identifications and passwords. Our hosting providers conduct regular security audits of our infrastructure. We also employ outside vendors for 24x7x365 managed network security and monitoring. Every page we serve is delivered encrypted to the end user via a Transport Layer Security or TLS. We also use encryption technology in our storage systems.
We continuously monitor the performance of our cloud offerings using a variety of automated tools. The architecture is designed with built-in redundancy for key components. We load balance at each tier in the network infrastructure. We also designed our application server clusters so that SOLICITATION # CH16012
88 servers can fail without interrupting the user experience, and our database servers are clustered for failover. We regularly back up customer data.
We have implemented a multi-tiered architecture leveraging a strategy of “defense in depth” with 6 tiers of virtual networks (VLAN) for separation at each delivery layer. Network traffic is logged and monitored with live monitoring through an Intrusion Detection System (NIDS), and controlled through a series of switches and routers whereas data must pass through each tier in order to get to the next tier.
In addition to Physical (site) security, the logical network stratification includes the following:
Tier 1 (External VLAN/firewall) - The first tier consists of the external network and perimeter firewalls. These provide an initial layer of defense and protect the following layers from unauthorized access. Note that port 443 (HTTPS for web traffic) is the only port open.
Tier 2 (Internal VLAN/firewall) - A de-militarized zone (DMZ) exists with load balancers. The DMZ provides a second line of defense while the load balancers are the first layer of scalability for the service delivery. The DMZ functions as a ""neutral zone"" between the network and the outside public network.
Tier 3 (Web VLAN) - The Web tier presents the User Interface to the application, and separates the application, reporting and utility servers from the other tiers.
Tier 4 (Application VLAN) - The Application tier contains the business logic and transaction servers, and is managed through clustered, high availability (HA) servers. Pre-configured as “Pods”, additional servers can be added as needed to provide scalability and performance.
Tier 5 (Database VLAN) - The database tier is protected by an additional set of perimeter firewalls. The database processing is executed on database servers leveraging a multi-tenant, fully qualified database schema.
Tier 6 (Storage VLAN) - Data is persisted to disks with include a Storage Area Network (SAN). Prior to store, data is encrypted by way of data appliance with AES-256 bit encryption.
VMware VMware IaaS Services
At the tenant level firewall services are provided via the vCloud Networking & Security Edge Gateways for customers to configure and maintain. Firewall policies can be used to restrict and manage public/Internet-based traffic and create DMZ zones for multi-tier applications. Firewall policies can also be used to configure access policies between internal IP networks and VxLAN segments. Stateful inspection firewalling can be applied on the external interface of the vCNS Edge Gateway.
VMware architects, provisions, monitors and manages the vCloud Hybrid Service infrastructure and surrounding components. As described in the AT 101 (ISO 27001) report, access points such as delivery and loading areas and other points where unauthorized persons may enter the premises are controlled and, if possible, isolated from information processing facilities to avoid unauthorized access. The details of this control are not disclosed publicly.
VMware AirWatch
We implement multiple security measures to protect hosted servers, including physical and logical controls. Due to FOIA requirements and the competitive EMM marketplace, we cannot provide specific architecture details at this time.
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89 FireEye High-level architecture diagrams following industry best practices utilizing both virtual and physical controls are available and contained in the SOC 2 report.
VirtueStream Virtustream utilized a virtual local area network (VLAN) and virtual route forwarding (VRF) to logically segregate all customers in the IaaS environment. Every customer chooses their own IP Address range, as there is no ability to overlap IP Addresses between customers. In addition, every customer is logically separated with Firewall Context with their own rule, where by default everything is denied except specific rule.
8.6.10 Provide Security Technical Reference Architectures that support Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) & Platform as a Service (PaaS).
CA APM Only SaaS is provided, network diagram can be provided upon signing NDA MAA Only SaaS is provided, network diagram can be provided upon signing NDA CA Agile These can be provided when a NDA is in place.
ASM Only SaaS is provided, network diagram can be provided upon signing NDA Salesforce Salesforce offers market leading PaaS and market leading SaaS solutions. Salesforce does not provide IaaS as a direct service offering to our customers, it is an underlying part of our PaaS and SaaS offerings.
The Salesforce Platform is built for cloud computing, with multitenancy inherent in its design. To meet the high demands of its large user population, Force.com’s foundation is a metadata-driven software architecture that enables multi-tenant applications.
Force.com combines several different persistence technologies, including a custom-designed relational database schema, which are innately designed for clouds and multitenancy—no virtualization required.
Force.com’s core technology uses a runtime engine that materializes all application data from metadata—data about the data itself. In Force.com’s well-defined metadata-driven architecture, there is a clear separation of the compiled runtime database engine (kernel), tenant data, and the metadata that describes each application. These distinct boundaries make it possible to independently update the system kernel and tenant-specific applications and schemas, with virtually no risk of one affecting the others.
Every logical database object that Force.com exposes is internally managed using metadata.
Objects, (tables in traditional relational database parlance), fields, stored procedures, and database triggers are all abstract constructs that exist merely as metadata in Force.com’s Universal Data Dictionary (UDD). For example, when you define a new application object or write some procedural code, Force.com does not create an actual table in a database or compile any code. Instead, Force.com simply stores metadata that the system’s engine can use to generate the virtual application components at runtime. When you need to modify or customize something about the application schema, like modify an existing field in an object, all that’s required is a simple nonblocking update to the corresponding metadata.
Because metadata is a key ingredient of Force.com applications, the system’s runtime engine must optimize access to metadata; otherwise, frequent metadata access would prevent the service from scaling. With this potential bottleneck in mind, Force.com uses massive and sophisticated metadata caches to maintain the most recently used metadata in memory, avoid performance-sapping disk I/O and code recompilations, and improve application response times.
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90 The multitenant architecture and secure logical controls address separation of Customer Data. The Salesforce infrastructure is divided into a modular architecture based on “instances”. Each instance is capable of supporting several thousand customers in a secure and efficient manner. Salesforce uses the instance architecture to continue to scale and meet the demands of our customers. There are appropriate controls in place designed to prevent any given customer’s Salesforce instance from being compromised. This functionality has been designed and undergoes robust testing through an on-going process by both Salesforce and its customers.
QTS The QTS cloud makes use of unique managed service provider architecture layer(s). Information systems, particularly those based on cloud architecture models, are made up of different service layers. The layers of the QTS cloud that are defined in its System Security Plan, and are not leveraged by any other Provisional Authorizations, are: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Note:
Please refer to NIST SP 800-145 for information on cloud computing architecture models.
SAP Ariba Ariba recognizes that security is a critical component of effective electronic commerce architecture and takes necessary security measures to protect any information passed between buyers and suppliers. Ariba implements security using a variety of hardware, software, and procedural best practices. Full details about our security mechanisms and procedures are available in Chapter 3 of the Ariba Cloud Technical Infrastructure Whitepaper.
Hanna N/A, HANA Enterprise Cloud is a private managed cloud SuccessFactors We understand the critical importance of information protection and recognize the contribution that information security makes to an organization’s strategic initiatives and overall risk management.
We have implemented security controls and practices designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of customer information. We continually work to strengthen and improve those security controls and practices as well.
The current best practices associated with information security involve a layered approach, what the industry calls “defense in depth.” Regardless of the software delivery model, security cannot be implemented at a single “make or break” point. For a SaaS provider to facilitate data security for sensitive information, it must have a comprehensive, multifaceted security program in place. We take a holistic approach to information security, implementing a multilayered defense at all the touch points in the information flow—both the physical and logical, applied across the database, middleware, application, and network and communication layers—to offer complete data privacy, transparency, and audit controls.
VMware Compliance Reference Architecture Framework (RAF) that provides a consistent method for VMware, its partners, and customers to assess and evaluate the impact of regulations on virtual and cloud environments. The intent of the RAF is to provide a single framework for VMware, its partners, and organizations to address a variety of compliance requirements across an IT infrastructure. This includes: Product Applicability Guide (PAG), Architecture Design Guide (ADG), and a Validated Reference Architecture (VRA).
FireEye High-level architecture diagrams following industry best practices utilizing both virtual and physical controls are available and contained in the SOC 2 Type 2 report.
VirtueStream Virtustream Cloud Platform Security (for the Infrastructure-as-a-Service environment) is designed, built, and operated to provide highest level of infrastructure security available.
Proposed State of Utah Security Architecture
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State of Utah end users would access the hosted SAP environments via a MPLS connection (Provided by State of Utah). Additionally a VPN connection has been sized at 100Mbps however this can be decreased or increased depending on the exact requirements.
State of Utah end users accessing our enterprise platform would first hit the landing zone in a dedicated virtual local area network (VLAN) and dedicated virtual route forwarding (VRF). The next hop into the enterprise platform is a dedicated firewall (FW) context on a Cisco Firewall services module. After traversing the core, traffic hits another dedicated VRF and drops into the platform network and compute (CPU and Memory essentially a blade server) layer. All traffic is VLAN separated. At each compute host, a hypervisor based firewall and intrusion protection system (IPS) provides a dedicated client rule set to further ensure network security. All traffic transitioning from one zone to another are monitored by Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention systems.
Traffic coming in via the internet hits the front-end perimeter with load balancing modules and multicontext Cisco firewalls. All traffic then passes through intrusion detection system and intrusion protection systems. As in the enterprise compute layer, every host in our demilitarized zone (DMZ) has a hypervisor-based firewall and IPS with dedicated client rule sets. Again, all traffic is VLAN separated as well.
Traffic that needs to traverse from DMZ to the enterprise runs through another dedicated FW context and IDS/IPS.
All of the State of Utah environments and data will be hosted in Virtustream’s data centers within the continental United States.
Standard Services used in Virtustream’s management environment and in all client environments including the following:
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92 All Virtustream employees use Mandatory Strong 2 factor authentication (2FA OTP) Administrative Access to all systems.
Dedicated VLAN network segmentation and dedicated Virtual Route Forwarding (VRF) are used extensively to segregate environments and zones.
Perimeter Firewalls are used to segment internal and external environments as well as segregate security zones. Configuration, monitoring, auditing and logging are included. Virtual Machine-based Firewall and Intrusion Prevention System (IDS) is installed on every virtual machine in the environment and is protected with Juniper’s Security Gateway virtual firewall application and monitored service.
Security Services that are standard components for Virtustream’s management environment and are Optional Services for client environments including the following:
Managed Two-Factor Authentication (“2FA”) is in use for all application systems. Intel TxT Enabled Servers and Trusted Boot/Bios monitoring with Attestation Server and OS and VM support, including Geolocation and Geofencing according to NIST 7904 guidelines. Secure operating system (OS) builds based on DoD Secure Technology Implementation Guide (STIG) guidelines are used to build Virtustream’s Management and Administration Servers. Server/File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) is installed in the PCI and VFC clouds. Patching Regimen: Virtustream patches host servers, network devices, security devices, servers and related services in the Management Network on a specified routine (monthly or quarterly, depending on release schedules), or when there is a CERT or other authorized source of patch that requires immediate attention. Based on urgency and risk of the issue we will schedule the patch as appropriate and use change control. Scanning regimen: vulnerability scanning is done on a monthly basis with additional 3rd party vulnerability scans done monthly. Additional scans are done when made aware of new vulnerabilities. Issues are classified and addressed according to Risk Classifications and are addressed with ITIL v3 change control processes.
Managed IDS signatures are routinely updated and the logs are monitored. Anti-Virus is managed on all Management servers in Enterprise, PCI and, VFC clouds. Logging Service of all servers, network devices, and security devices to a centralized log server system.
Governance Risk Compliance: We use a complete Enterprise Risk Management toolset to manage compliance reporting and continuous monitoring to all of our supported compliance frameworks.
Virtustream’s facility monitoring systems are complete as per specifications in NIST 800-53r3/4. We use site assessment methodologies and checklists as detailed in NIST 800-42. Our systems and facilities are monitored 24/7 for any exceptions or trends. Our tools, processes and CONUS (Continental USA) personnel monitor network, power, cooling, humidity, water leakage, fire suppression, power systems (utility power, UPS systems and generators) and site access.
Virtustream’s Physical Access Control Security is designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability (“CIA”) of the cloud platform system and its data with the following security components:
Limited and controlled room access.
Logged and monitored access of all access control events. Video surveillance and review of all access control events. Biometric access control required to gain access to the Data Center. US Data Center staff is limited only to US Citizens.
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93 Locked racks and rooms with key log out/in process. Data destruction policies and procedures.
Asset in/out policy and procedures.
Physical access by authorized staff is controlled by badge systems and biometric access systems.
All access of any kind is recorded and logged. Access lists are reviewed every 90 days. Employees that do not have a reason to have physical access are removed from our access management systems. Multiple high resolution and IR enhanced CCTV Cameras monitor our datacenters at all egress and ingress points as well as other sensitive areas. Security video footage is stored in a secure area for 90 days.
Approved Visitor Access requires VISITOR Badges and bright lanyards that are specifically different from employee badges. Visitors are required to produce and surrender a state or government issued photo ID during the visit, have a pre-approved reason for the visit, and have the escort witness the sign in and out procedure. Visitors are escorted continuously through approved areas of the facility.
Visitors are not allowed access to following areas of the data center under any circumstances:
Cloud hosting areas.
Networking and telecommunication areas.
Guard areas.
Power vaults.
8.6.11 Describe security procedures (background checks, foot printing logging, etc.) which are in place regarding Offeror’s employees who have access to sensitive data.
FireEye Background verification for employment candidates is a mandatory component of FireEye’s hiring process. All personnel are required to sign a confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement agreeing not to disclose proprietary or confidential information including client information to unauthorized parties.
Security awareness training program is in place to maintain the skill level of personnel regarding security and privacy expectations and best practices. All FireEye personnel at all levels are trained and notified of information security and privacy requirements and personnel responsibilities.
VirtueStream Virtustream employees who are assigned to IaaS must pass a Virtustream background investigation. In addition, Virtustream employees assigned to the IaaS must adhere to any requirement by customers to pass federal, state, or local background investigations if they are to provide managed services to the customer zone which includes access to sensitive data.
8.6.12 Describe the security measures and standards (i.e. NIST) which the Offeror has in place to secure the confidentiality of data at rest and in transit.
CA At CA Technologies, we comply with a multifaceted security standard that includes requirements for security management, policies, procedures, network architecture, software design and other critical protective measures. We ensure the maintenance of vulnerability management programs, implement strong access control measures, regularly monitor and test networks and adhere to the highest industry compliance and security policies. CA offers a variety of SaaS solutions, details for each offering has been provided in Exhibit 1 and 2 of this proposal.
Google All connections from customer end point devices to Google's Front End Servers are encrypted with enforced HTTPS sessions using Forward Secrecy. Google websites and properties use robust public key technologies: 2048-bit RSA or P-256 ECDSA SSL certificates issued by a trusted authority (currently the Google Internet Authority G2).
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Google hard drives leverage technologies like FDE (full disk encryption) and drive locking, to protect data at rest.
These methods of encryption are fully managed by Google and Google's Key Management Servers based on 128-bit or stronger Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
Encryption Keys and Ciphers Supported by Google
Protocols
TLS 1.2
TLS 1.1
TLS 1.0
SSL 3.04
QUIC
Cipher suites
ECDHE_RSA with AES
ECDHE_RSA with 3DES
ECDHE_ECDSA
RSA with AES
RSA with 3DES
Signing keys
RSA 2048
ECDSA P-256
Hash functions
SHA384
SHA256
SHA1
MD5
Salesforce Government Cloud Encryption Capabilities:
As part of the Salesforce Government Cloud, Salesforce is capable of responding to FIPS 140-2 cryptographic implementations for data being transferred between the State’s web browser and Salesforce. Data that resides within Salesforce’s protected boundary does not use FIPS 140-2 validated encryption as compensating/mitigating controls are in place to protect data. Additional information is provided below.
Data In Motion:
Salesforce employs cryptographic mechanisms to protect information during transmission. All transmissions between the user and Salesforce are encrypted by default with a 2048- bit Public Key. Our service uses International/Global Step Up certificates. We support one- way TLS, in which customers create secure connections before sharing private data.
Secure routing and traffic flow policies ensure that customer traffic is encrypted entering Salesforce until the load balancer decrypts the traffic. The load balancers decrypting the traffic are FIPS 140-2 compliant and are located inside of the Salesforce Government Cloud isolation boundary.
Data At Rest:
NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4 states in SC-28, “Information at rest refers to the state of information when it is located on a secondary storage device (e.g., disk drive, tape drive) within an organizational information system.” SC-28 also states, “Organizations may choose to employ different SOLICITATION # CH16012
95 mechanisms to achieve confidentiality and integrity protections, as appropriate.” All secondary storage media (hard drives, disk drives, and tapes) containing customer data are maintained within Salesforce’s secure production data centers until the media has been sanitized and destroyed. Salesforce relies on physical access controls as a compensating control to protect the data.
For primary data storage, Salesforce provides customers with a built-in capability to apply fieldlevel encryption, using 128-bit keys with AES encryption, for a selection of custom fields included in the Force.com Platform and Salesforce Services. Field-level encryption ensures the data associated with designated fields is encrypted in storage.
SAP Ariba Sensitive data elements, including PCI Primary Account Numbers and system account parameters for internal application communications, are stored in Ariba databases encrypted by the AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) and Triple DES (Data Encryption Standard) encryption algorithms with a minimum key length of 128 bits. Encryption technology is also applied for the client connection to the Web site and to the hosted application passwords in storage. Customer user passwords are one way hashed using SHA256 and salted with random data. Limited Ariba Operations personnel have data query access and monitoring rights for the Ariba Hosting program.
Fieldglass
Hanna SAP provides for enterprise-grade and industry-standard security. SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud datacenters are enterprise-class security with enterpriseclass protection including data encryption, network encryption, firewalling, network isolation, and intrusion detection. HANA data is protected in multiple different ways. SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is a managed cloud service that employs either a VPN or MPLS connection for transit. By default VPN is encrypted and MPLS can be encrypted. The customer procures the method of connection. At installation, HANA data can be encrypted using a feature called Data Volume Encryption. This encryption protects data in the persistence layer. Storage volume access is restricted to the customer account that created the volume, thus denying all other customer accounts the permission to view or access the volume that includes data isolation, masking, zoning and Logical Unit (LUN) binding. Strict user and access management, authorization management according to the need-to-know principle for administrative accounts, and security logging and security monitoring for critical activities or access, also protect data stored in HANA.
Hybris The Hybris platform uses SSL (https) for both the web application tier (browsers and WebService APIs) as well as communicating with back office systems.
Data at rest is something that has to be taken into consideration in the application requirements by the partner/customer or PS teams. If encryption is required the application teams need to work on implementing the methods to encrypt and secure the data, for example encrypting data fields in the database.
SuccessFactors Each customer’s data is maintained in a separate database schema eliminating data segmentation breaches. Each schema has separate authentication credentials and assigned resource profile to restrict access rights and resource consumption. Encryption for data at rest uses the AES256 cipher. All application access is encrypted-in-transit over HTTPS with 128-bit TLS encryption.
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96 FireEye At rest: Data are collected using automated batch and real-time processes and by manual personnel-driven actions via an Analyst facing Portal. Any information that is collected may be stored temporarily within appliances attached to our customers’ networks and may subsequently be transmitted back to one or more FireEye datacenters. Data transmitted from a customer’s network to a datacenter travels over a strong encryption Virtual Private Network (“VPN”) established by the appliances.
At transit: FireEye’s network sensors are configured to collect full packet capture of customer network streams, including those originating from or destined to potentially malicious IP addresses, matching signature-based network indicators of compromise, results of domain name lookups, and full e-mail messages including headers, content and attachments. This information is primarily stored on-site on the appliances and only meta data matching FireEye / Mandiant indicators of compromise are sent to FaaS.
VirtueStream Virtustream’s use of Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT), a hardware-root of trust security feature, and Intel® AES-NI encryption acceleration helps secure and protect virtualized environments against malware and provides more of the critical infrastructure and data protection assurances needed to enable trusted multi-tenancy in the cloud. Virtustream offers solution for data-at-rest and data-in-transit encryption solution for our customers as optional service, as most of our customer environment is only accessible via private network and only to the internal users of the customer. Solutions available to our customer as follows.
1. IPSEC VPN Tunnel for data-in-transit and
2. VM level encryption for files and databases
3. Encrypted Backup (all backups are encrypted by default) The technologies of encryption available throughout the entire data lifecycle and all are FIPS 140- 2 compliant.
a) DB and File System Encryption
b) Encrypts file system and volume data transparently to:
i) Applications
ii) Databases
iii) Storage Infrastructure
c) Integrated Key Management
d) High Efficiency Encryption
i) Centralized Key Management
ii) Policy Management
iii) Detailed Auditing
iv) Highly Available
v) FIPS 140-2 Certified Hardware Appliance
vi) Very Low Encryption Penalty due to Intel AES-NI enabled chip sets used e) Encryption of Virtual Machine, OS and App
i) Integration of SafeNET Protect-V
ii) Logging of all image access
f) Encryption in Archive
g) Implements Encryption, Access Control, Auditing on Host (LUW) h) Kernel Level Driver – Win
i) File System – Unix/Linux
j) Support for file systems and raw partitions
k) Highly efficient block encryption
8.6.13 Describe policies and procedures regarding notification to both the State and the Cardholders of a data breach, as defined in this RFP, and the mitigation of such a breach.
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97 CA CA Technologies abides to contractual requirements for notification, in addition to working with legal to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. There may be cases where incident analysis completion is a requirement for confirming the breach, and / or its impact and data leakage boundary. Prior to completion of this activity, CA may not have the needed conclusions for customer communication. Once subscriber data has been identified as part of the investigation, said subscribers will be notified as soon as possible and not longer than 5 days. A report of the incident will be available and distributed to clients within 30 days.
Please note that none of the offerings proposed as considered payment products and are not intended for use of storage of cardholder data.
Google Google will take and implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect Customer Data against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss or alteration or unauthorized disclosure or access or other unauthorized processing. If Google becomes aware of a Data Incident, Google will promptly notify Customer as permitted by law of the Data Incident, and take reasonable steps to minimize harm and secure Customer Data. Notification(s) of any Data Incident(s) will be delivered to the Notification Email Address provided by the Purchasing Entity in connection with the Agreement or, at Google’s discretion, by direct communication (e.g., by phone call or an in-person meeting).
Salesforce Salesforce will promptly notify the State (within 48 hours, reflected in a negotiated agreement between the parties) in the event Salesforce becomes aware of an actual or reasonably suspected unauthorized disclosure of Customer Data. Notification may include phone contact by Salesforce support, email to the State's administrator and Security Contact (if contact is submitted by State and contact information is kept up to date), and public posting on trust.salesforce.com.
SAP Ariba Ariba has developed a computer security incident response team. Following policies and procedures, this team responds to suspected security incidents to mitigate risks and damage. The team conducts response and forensic analysis of systems and network traffic. This information can be used to assist with prosecution if a security breach is detected and the offender caught.
Fieldglass SAP Fieldglass’ security team is responsible for managing security incidents and all communication is conducted via the respective account managers to ensure timeliness. The process is defined within the Incident Response Management Standard.
Customers are notified of an incident within 48 hours.
Hanna SAP will notify via defined communication channels within 36 hours of a confirmed data security breaches to the affected customers. The report will detail the following information:
• Details relating to the security incident that has occurred, known at the time of notification.
• IT infrastructure and/or application affected by the security incident. • Overview of the performed mitigation actions to restore the security, documented within the incident report form.
• All further applicable requirements by country regulations “on obligation to notify” will be met.
Hybris Since we do not allow for CC data to be transmitted, stored or processed in our environment, we regularly scan the customer environment in case this is done without our consent.
However, we do have a CSIRP in place, in which we would notify the customer and our internal Forensics team in the event that a customer environment should be breached.
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98 becoming aware of the incident, measures are promptly taken by the team to resolve the situation. All affected customers should be informed within at most 36 hours of confirming a potential breach in the privacy of their data. Following incident resolution, follow-up is required to ensure that the incident has been resolved effectively and that the threat is no longer present. We are aligned with ISO 27k standards for event and incident management and have formal incident management policies and processes in place. These policies and procedures are tested in the ISO 27k and SOC 2 audits.
FireEye FireEye has a documented policy for incident management that has been approved by management and communicated to appropriate constituents and owners. It is continuously maintain and reviewed annually. The plan has a reporting structure and escalation path. An incident response team with defined roles and response related qualifications are available 24x7x365. The team maintains chain of custody for evidence during the incident investigation.
There is a process for reporting client notification for regulatory, legal and contractual issues after a breach if a breach were to be confirmed. If a confirmed breach were to occur a management team would review all the factors and develop a remediation plan to mitigate.
VirtueStream There are two primary Incident types; Security Incidents, where there is a possible breach in systems or data integrity, and Services, where there is in impacted or affected service. Although there is some overlap, generally any security-related incident should be classified as a Security Incident and the response must be managed using the ‘Virtustream Information Security Procedure – Security Incident Response Plan’.
The purpose of this security incident response plan is to provide general guidance to Virtustream staff- both technical and managerial – to enable quick and efficient recovery from security incidents; respond in a systematic manner to incidents and carry out all necessary steps to correctly handle an incident; prevent or minimize disruption of critical computing services; and minimize loss or theft of sensitive or mission critical information including sensitive credit card data. The plan is also a guide to sharing information with other stakeholder organizations who might be impacted by such security incidents such as the credit card associations and law enforcement.
The Security Incident Response Plan (SIRP) provides guidance to prepare for, respond to, and recover from potential incidents. Policy statements surrounding the IR-Plan are provided to ensure continued upkeep and standardized use. The SIRP guidance at the procedural level defines the roles, responsibilities, communication methods and flows, contact information, types of potential incidents, and immediate actions that are to be taken upon an incident’s identification, and elaborates with subsequent recovery steps. Virtustream’s Incident Response Policy requires the implementation and testing of a generalized plan that adheres to the International Standards Organization 27002 guidance for incident management and response, but meets specific requirements for compliance such as PCI-DSS.
The Plan covers the corporate environment associated with Virtustream’s IT assets, the local IT resources and the IT resources at Virtustream’s Data Center. It consists of a series of guidelines (Incident Response Guidelines or “IRG”) that should generally be followed as appropriate for the circumstances as when a security incident occurs or as part of the ongoing maintenance of this plan.
As the incident progresses and has more impact (i.e. severity level increases), the escalation process will be used to engage appropriate resources. Incidents should be handled at the lowest escalation level that is capable of responding to the incident with as few resources as possible in order to reduce the total impact, and to keep tight control. The Table below defines the escalation levels with the associated team involvement.
8.7 Migration and Redeployment Plan
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The end of life activities for each Purchasing Entity will vary based on the type of service they are currently using and the service that they will be moving too. All Purchasing Entities will be notified in advance of any end of life service so that the Purchasing Entity can work with Carahsoft and the service providers to develop a plan exporting and transitioning data.
8.7.2 Offeror must describe how it intends to provide an orderly return of data back to the Purchasing Entity, include any description in your SLA that describes the return of data to a customer.
At all times during the course of the Service, the Purchasing Entities will have access and ownership of their data. The Purchasing Entity is free to download or access the data through a variety of means based on the service at any time during their service period.
8.8 Service or Data Recovery
8.8.1 Describe how you would respond to the following situations; include any contingency plan or policy. a. Extended downtime.
CA APM If unable to resolve in a timely manner, all customers will be notified via email to the registered admin
MAA Customers are kept abreast with progress during incidents, including outages. CA utilizes best-of-breed notification system which enables customer contacts to selfsubscribe to different types of notifications that they would be interested in. A DR plan has been created should the extended down time result in DR declaration.
CA Agile We would failover to our warm data center in order to restore access to the application as quickly as possible. This is done according to our Disaster Recovery Plan ASM If unable to resolve in a timely manner, all customers will be notified via email to the registered admin. Failover from the primary to DR site may be utilized if the extended amount of time warrants declaration of DR.
Google Due the redundant nature of the Google infrastruture there is no expectation of any extended downtime. If a data center in use by any of your end users suffers a catatrophic failure, Google's dynamic health monitoring would just reroute the session to a different data center.
AODocs All the AODocs data is hosted on the Google Cloud Platform infrastructure. AODocs does not manage any physical infrastructure. Due the redundant nature of the Google infrastruture there is no expectation of any extended downtime. If a data center in use by any of your end users suffers a catatrophic failure, Google's dynamic health monitoring would just reroute the session to a different data center.
Virtru Notify users that Virtru service is unavailable, and recommend that they use their offline encryption tools and backups to perform emergency functions.
Salesforce Salesforce has maintained high levels of availability across all Salesforce instances since inception. As the only on-demand vendor to provide daily service-quality data on a public Web site (http://trust.salesforce.com), Salesforce proves that we are the leader in availability. And by making its track record completely transparent, Salesforce proves we are worthy of our customers’ trust. To ensure maximum uptime and continuous availability, Salesforce provides the best SOLICITATION # CH16012
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redundant data protection and most advanced facilities protection available, along with a complete data recovery plan—all without affecting performance.
Salesforce uses commercially reasonable efforts to make its on-demand services available to its customers 24/7, except for planned downtime, for which Salesforce gives customers prior notice, and force majeure events. Excellent availability statistics are critical to Salesforce's customers’ success and to the success of Salesforce as a company. Live and historical statistics on the Salesforce system performance are publicly published at http://trust.salesforce.com/trust/status.
The persistence layer underlying Salesforce Platform is proven database technology that powers all of Salesforce’s products today, serving more than 150,000 organizations and over 4 billion transactions per day with an average request response time of less than .25 seconds, all with an average up time of 99.9+ percent.
ServiceNow ServiceNow’s data centers and cloud-based infrastructure have been designed to be highly available. All servers and network devices have redundant components and multiple network paths to avoid single points of failure.
At the heart of this architecture, each customer application instance is supported by a multi-homed network configuration with multiple connections to the Internet. Production application servers are load balanced within each data center. Production database servers are replicated in near-real time to a peer data center within the same geographic region.
ServiceNow leverages this Advanced High Availability (AHA) architecture for customer production instances in several ways:
•In the event of the failure of one or more infrastructure components, service is restored by transferring the operation of customer instances associated with the failed components to the peer data center.
•Before executing required maintenance, ServiceNow can proactively transfer operation of customer instances impacted by the maintenance to the peer data center. The maintenance can then proceed without impacting service availability.
This approach means that the transfer between active and standby data centers is being regularly executed as part of standard operating procedures – ensuring that when it is needed to address a failure, the transfer will be successful and service disruption minimized.
RTO is 2 hours. RPO is 1 hour.
See the “ServiceNow Security, Operations, and Compliance White Paper” included with this response for more information.
QTS In the rare instance of failure of the commercially-delivered electrical power, back-up systems at each QTS data center start instantaneously. Batteries provide power for the first 12-15 seconds while on-site diesel generators spin up to synchronize their output with the battery-supplied feed.
Once on-line, the generators can supply power indefinitely, and the IT equipment on the data floor as well as critical infrastructure components are all unaffected.
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operation without resupply are stored on-site, and re-supply contracts are in place with multiple providers to have fuel delivered as soon as the generators come on line.
SAP Ariba Ariba has implemented two sites within each region. In North America the sites are currently located in San Jose, California and Sterling, VA. In Europe the sites are located in St. Leon-Rot, Germany and Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The act of failing over from one site to another has a design goal for its Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of no more than four hours. The design goal for the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is five minutes.
Disaster recovery options are included for all Ariba Cloud Services. In the event of a fail-over to the disaster recovery site, no customer changes are required as all URLs that customers use to reach the applications will continue to work. Ariba will notify customers via their email addresses in the event of unplanned downtime.
Internally, Ariba uses a documented system recovery plan that outlines the approach and steps for recovering the applications. This document defines roles and responsibilities in the event of disaster:
Local Ariba staff maintains the hardware remotely.
Ariba maintains the application software.
Processes are in place to keep database and fileservers in sync between primary and backup data centers.
The failover process of all parts of the infrastructure is automated.
In the event of a catastrophe, Ariba will declare the primary data center “down” and locally the script will be run to switchover and start the applications at the remote data center.
Ariba tests power outage backup scenarios and the Disaster Recovery Plan on a periodic basis to ensure it is up-to-date, successful, and effective.
Fieldglass Customers are notified of unscheduled downtime immediately via email.
Updates are frequently emailed out until the issue has been resolved.
Customers are notified of scheduled downtime 5 days prior via email.
Hanna In case of a disaster depending on the infra & technical architecture defined during HEC technical assessment workshop, systems could fail over to HA node. If DR (optional offering) is selected, the systems could move to secondary DC that where contracted with a DR option & HEC declaring DR.
Regular system downtime for patching etc. is planned in advance with the customer and typically follows customers maintenance schedules.
Hybris SAP Hybris offers continuous 24/7 systems monitoring in-place, which automatically notifies you, SAP Hybris support and optionally your designated implementation partner in the event of any monitored system problem. Tools used for monitoring include HP Sitescope and Nagios. This service ensures quick response times to emergency problems. Standard monitors are in place for basic site availability. Customer can utilize additional 3rd party monitoring services should it wish to add additional monitoring. Upon request, monthly or quarterly reviews are offered to review performance over the period. When a system problem occurs, in addition to monitor alerts sent to the customer, SAP Hybris support may send emails to a designated customer notification email address to provide status, updates or further detailed information. In addition, a support ticket would be created which would include such information.
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staffed and monitored to help prevent acts of sabotage or vandalism. All production data centers are ANSI/EIA/TIA-942Tier III/IV facilities, and are ISO 27001 certified.
Production data centers are also geographically dispersed to help prevent a single event from affecting more than one data center. In the event a production data center has an outage we failover to an alternate data center in the same geographic region to minimize impact to customers.
Our Cloud Operations teams are also geographically dispersed, working in offices in the US, Europe, South America, and India. Should an office be impacted by an environmental event or pandemic, other offices can continue operations.
Aspects of the plan are described in the SOC reports, Disaster Recovery Plan (“DRP”) and Business Continuity Plan (“BCP”) solutions are dependent on several factors. The customer may be responsible for parts of the recovery/continuity activities.
VMware VMware vCloud Air leverages proven VMware High Availability technology to minimize the risk of extended downtime. In the unlikely event that an extended outage does occur, VMware will support guide the customer's efforts to restore services to an alternative vCloud Air or vCGS datacenter. We will also provide remedies in the form of service credits as outlined in the following VMware vCloud Air, vCGS, Vmware AirWatch and VMware Identity Manager SLAs.
FireEye FireEye has a mature and documented Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan that follows industry best practices that is reviewed and tested annually. The BCP/DRP plan has RPO/RTO timing criteria and other critical business requirements that is available for review if requested in the future.
VirtueStream In the event of extended downtime affecting production systems, Virtustream and customer would jointly evaluate the situation and mutually decide on failover declaration, whereby Virtustream would then execute the failover plan to restore customer operations to the secondary data center. b. Suffers an unrecoverable loss of data.
CA APM Customer data is isolated within dedicated schemas with nightly backups. The maximum data loss would be the previous 24hrs.
MAA MAA data is backed up fully daily. The maximum data loss would be the previous 24hrs.
CA Agile We have implemented a physical standby database in both hot/Live site as well as warm/standby sites using Oracle Data Guard with real-time apply to achieve the stated recovery objectives.
ASM Customer data is isolated within dedicated schemas with nightly backups. The maximum data loss would be the previous 24hrs.
Google Google performs real time data replication to avoid unrecoverable data loss. Customers that configure the retention policies in Google Apps Vault can ensure that end users can not inadvertently or maliciously delete email in advance of any defined retention schedules.
AODocs AODocs data are stored in Google AppEngine and Google Drive:
- The data stored in Google AppEngine are backed up every day.
The application is hosted on Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and benefits from the network security described in this whitepaper: https://cloud.google.com/files/Google-CommonSecurityWhitePaper-v1.4.pdf - Data stored in Google Drive is managed by Google within its multiple servers location. Altirnao does not manage this infrastructure. Google Drive can be backed up by third party tool such as Backupify.
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Virtru Notify users that data within Virtru is unavailable, and recommend that they use their offline encryption tools and backups to perform emergency functions.
Salesforce To maximize availability, the service is delivered using multiple world-class data centers supporting primary and replicated disaster recovery instance, plus a separate production-class lab.
The infrastructure utilizes carrier-class components designed to support millions of users.
Extensive use of high-availability servers and network technologies, and a carrier-neutral network strategy, help to minimize the risk of single points of failure, and provide a highly resilient environment with maximum uptime and performance.
The Salesforce services are configured to be N+1 redundant at a minimum, where N is the number of components of a given type needed for the service to operate, and +1 is the redundancy. In many cases, Salesforce has more than one piece of redundant equipment for a given function.
ServiceNow Please see our response for 8.8.1a
QTS QTS cloud developed a OPS_POL_54_QTS-FC_Contingency_Planning_Policy (v1.2 – 2/6/14), detailing the policies, procedures, roles and responsibilities of key personnel in the event of an emergency and/or disaster.
SAP Ariba Our SLA provides tenant remuneration for losses they may incur due to outages within the infrastructure.
Fieldglass The maximum data loss timeframe is guaranteed to be less than three hours; however, offsite backups are performed every 15 minutes so the timeframe is actually much shorter.
Hanna Data loss is defined by RPO & RTO. HEC has a maximum RPO of 30 mins & RTO of 12 hours.
Hybris For a cloud solution, data backup and restore is handled by SAP. SAP shall follow its archiving procedures for Customer Data as set out in the SAP Hybris Commerce, cloud edition Services Description. In the event of any loss or damage to Customer Data, SAP shall use commercially reasonable efforts to restore the lost or damaged Customer Data from the latest back- up of such Customer Data maintained by SAP in accordance with the archiving procedure described in its SAP Hybris Commerce, cloud edition Services Description. SAP shall not be responsible for any loss, destruction, alteration or disclosure of Customer Data caused by any third party, (except those third parties sub- contracted by SAP to perform services related to Customer Data maintenance and back-up).
SuccessFactors Our SLA provides tenant remuneration for losses they may incur due to outages within the infrastructure.
VMware VMWare IaaS Services
As discussed in detail in section 8.8.2.1.a below, VMware IaaS services are architected to minimize the risk of unrecoverable data loss. In addition option services such as vCloud Air Data Protection can be leveraged to further mitigate any risk. VMware’s vCloud Air policy regarding data loss can be found in the vCloud Air Terms of use. VMware’s vCloud Government Service policy regarding data loss can be found in the vCloud Government Service Terms of Service AirWatch Hosted Services
AirWatch Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery strategies include data and hardware redundancy, network configuration redundancy and backups, and robust, regular testing exercises. AirWatch features active-passive configurations for high availability and redundancy with all components made to failover with minimal downtime. Load balancing capabilities are deployed across multiple data centers to ensure timely server recovery. AirWatch also incorporates replication technology featuring SQL log shipping or network SAN byte replication to prevent data loss.
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• Due to FOIA restrictions and the competitive nature of the EMM marketplace, we cannot provide specific details regarding recovery strategies or timelines.
FireEye FireEye has a mature and documented Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan that follows industry best practices that is reviewed and tested annually. The BCP/DRP plan has RPO/RTO timing criteria and other critical business requirements that is available for review if requested in the future.
VirtueStream Multiple copies of customer data exist in multiple datacenters – in the primary datacenter, there is the production copy and a local backup. The local backup is replicated to a secondary datacenter and the production datastores associated with coreVM’s are also replicated at regular intervals to the secondary datacenter. If NASPO feels that additional steps/redundancy are required to maintain recoverability, Virtustream is open to discussion. c. Offeror experiences a system failure.
CA APM Disaster to the CA Technologies corporate network in New York will not affect customers' service. Secondary services, such as domain name services will be routed through the secondary CA Technologies network in Illinois. CA has a BCP plan in place to direct its services. The SaaS environment is separate from the CA corporate network and a service specific disaster recovery plan is in place.
MAA Customers would be notified in advance, and given ample time to retrieve their data.
CA Agile We enable all of our employees with the ability to be able to work remotely and provide remote network access to ensure business functions can continue. All corporate infrastructure has redundate systems that can be utilized in the event of failure.
ASM Customers would be notified in advance, and given ample time to retrieve their data manually or via the ASM API.
Google Google's corporate network is separate from it's production infrastructure. Google is a global organization that has support personnel located at key office installations and tests our business continuity programs annually. These tests are to validate that if corporate headquarters is off the grid that criticial business functions can be picked up by other staff.
AODocs AODocs runs 100% over Google's Cloud Platform infrastructure that is naturally redundant, and all AODocs internal systems such as technical support, email, collaboration, source code hosting, etc are run on cloud based services. AODocs personnel can work from any physical location without any business disruption and they do work from remote locations on a regular basis. If one of the AODocs facilities were to be temporarily unavailable due to a natural disaster, AODocs personnel would be able to perform their work without significant interruption.
Virtru Notify users that Virtru is or will be permanently unavailable, and recommend that they use their offline encryption tools and backups to perform emergency functions.
Salesforce Please see response to items a. and b. above and d. and e. below.
Salesforce has documented Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans for critical business functions. The Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans are tested at least annually. A post mortem documenting the results of the disaster recovery tests can be provided to customers with a signed NDA in place.
Business continuity plans are updated each year, including the list of business processes, recovery time objectives, and key resources. Senior management is included in this process.
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closed. Salesforce has developed additional procedures, processes and plans, including a Pandemic plan.
Salesforce also recommends customers also devise their own backup strategy for their data, as there is a fee for customers to request for restoration from Salesforce backups. Salesforce provides multiple ways for our customers to obtain periodic backups of its data. We offer a weekly export service (WES) for those customers requiring a local backup copy of their data or a data set for import into other applications (such as an ERP system). Salesforce also supports data replication, which allows customers to store and maintain a local, separate copy of their organization's Salesforce data including the META data (logins, etc.) for specialized uses, such as data warehousing, data mining, custom reporting, analytics, and integration with other applications. Data replication provides customers with local control and the ability to run large or ad hoc analytical queries across the entire data set.
ServiceNow Please see our response for 8.8.1a
QTS QTS has established an alternate processing site including necessary agreements to permit the resumption of information system operations for essential missions and business functions within [Assignment: organization-defined time period consistent with recovery time objectives] when the primary processing capabilities are unavailable.
The QTS cloud hosting facilities in Richmond, VA (RIC1) and Atlanta, GA (ATL1) have agreements with each other to restore services in the event that one of the sites becomes unavailable. Both facilities are QTS managed facilities and are always available to meet the recovery time and recovery point objectives for the system. Agreements are in place to allow QTS to access resources at the alternate processing site physically and via the QTS client network.
Richmond and Atlanta Datacenters are independently operated datacenters that offers disaster recovery services to customers. The contingency approach ensures that hardware and software components needed for recovery efforts are already at the alternate facility.
QTS ensures that equipment and supplies required to resume operations are available at the alternate site or contracts are in place to support delivery to the site in time to support the organization-defined time period for resumption.
Network circuits, networking infrastructure, storage, virtual servers, and management components required to resume operations are available and configured at the alternate site.
SAP Ariba "Ariba modules automatically persist object state to the underlying relational database as users work. When a user performs a significant action, for example, adding an item to an order, performing an approval, etc., the Ariba application tier is aware of the change and automatically saves the relevant object state to the database. This provides transparent persistence of the user's work without the user having to “save” or “submit” changes to avoid losing work in the event of failure or session timeout. This in turn means that the loss of any connections between the tiers or failure of one of the tiers will not leave data in an inconsistent state.
While object data is cached in the middle tier for performance, the official record is stored in the database to avoid any potential data loss or corruption.
This means that recovery for Ariba modules is implicit and automatic. When the modules start, they retrieve the state of the various business objects from the underlying database as needed for user sessions. If an Ariba module fails, there is no special application recovery process other than restarting the module. The Ariba module will automatically connect to the database and as clients login and commence working, all required business object data will be retrieved from the database."
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Fieldglass Fieldglass’ business continuity program (BC Program) was established to ensure that, after a complete disruption of its Chicago and/or Naperville, Illinois offices, all employees and the functions for which they are responsible, are capable of continued operations in less than one business day. This includes office space as well as all equipment and supplies needed to continue its operations without an interruption in customer services.
Fieldglass’ BC Program is integrated into all facets of the company due to the criticality of the product that it sells and supports. As such, representatives from all areas of the company are responsible for ensuring that they are familiar with their duties and responsibilities during a disruption and how to recover their areas after the disruption occurs.
Hanna Service Level Credits
Where SAP fails to meet a Service Level, SAP will be liable to Customer for the corresponding Service Level Credit as set out in this section. The Service Level Credit is calculated as the sum of the Service Level Credits for both DEV/QAS and PRD for the TA Service Level defined in section 5.1 above.
SAP will deduct the amount of any Service Level Credits owed to Customer from the next invoice (or, if there is no such invoice, by bank transfer to such bank account as Customer may specify in writing).
Customer agrees that under no circumstances will the total maximum Service Level Credits: (i) for any one month, exceed 100% of the Service Fee for that month; and, (ii) for any given contract year, exceed in the aggregate an amount equal to one- third of the annual Service Fee charged for the contract year (or one third of the total Service Fee charged if the Term as defined in the applicable Order Form is less than one (1) year). Customer acknowledges that the Service Level Credits defined hereunder are the sole remedy for SAP’s failure to meet the specified Service Level.
5.6 Termination for Service Level Failure
Customer may terminate the applicable Order Form with thirty (30) day’s termination notice in writing to SAP, if SAP misses a Service Level as specified in this Supplement for three (3) months in sequence. Customer may exercise this termination right only within thirty (30) days after receipt of the respective Service Level report that documents the applicable Service Level failure that would cause such termination right to accrue in Customer.
Hybris SAP isn't likely to go out of business in the near future. However, our contract states the following: Upon expiration or termination of the Agreement, SAP may destroy or otherwise dispose of any of Customer Data in its possession unless SAP (i) is requested by Customer to extend the term of the Order Form as permitted in the Order Form to allow Customer to retrieve Customer Data, or (ii) receives, no later than thirty (30) days after the effective date of the termination of this Agreement, a written request for the delivery to Customer of the then most recent back-up of the Customer Data. SAP shall use reasonable commercial efforts to deliver the back-up to Customer within thirty (30) days of its receipt of such a written request, provided that Customer has, at that time, paid all fees and charges outstanding and owed at termination. Customer shall pay all reasonable fees and expenses incurred by SAP in returning or disposing of the Customer Data.
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VMware AirWatch Hosted Services
AirWatch Business Continuity (BC) strategies include clear policies and procedures as well as robust, regular testing exercises. Our BC recovery strategies for support and maintenance include provisions for workforce mobility, secondary support locations, and defined leadership roles and responsibilities for all recovery staff.
• Multiple Support Locations – AirWatch maintains a Global Support Team, which spans multiple offices around the world. This ensures that if a disaster occurs at one of our offices, our remaining Support Team members can provide assistance to our customers. • Mobile Workforce – Should an AirWatch office become inaccessible, all AirWatch employees are equipped with laptops and can access necessary internal resources. • Defined Leadership – During a disaster, roles and responsibilities are assigned to key personnel, and a recovery manager provides leadership and documents the continuity process. Additionally, emergency contact numbers for key personnel are provided for all vendors and support staff.
FireEye FireEye has a mature and documented Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan that follows industry best practices that is reviewed and tested annually. The BCP/DRP plan has RPO/RTO timing criteria and other critical business requirements that is available for review if requested in the future.
VirtueStream Virtustream has built redundancy into all layers of the physical infrastructure in order to deliver SLAs up to 99.999% and mitigate the risks of a system failure. Additional levels of protection include regular system backups (stored locally and replicated offsite) as well as automatic storage replication to a secondary data center to facilitate the ability to restore operations in the event of a system failure.
d. Ability to recover and restore data within 4 business hours in the event of a severe system outage.
CA APM CA provides an SLA of 99.8% uptime, which can result in unforeseen outages of ~1.5 hours per month. In the event of a failure to meet a SLA threshold , Customer is entitled to a number of days of credit.
MAA Using DB clustering technologies, multiple copies of data are maintained helping in recovery of the data.
CA Agile We can meet this requirement.
ASM Data is replicated from the primary (production) to secondary (DR) continuously. In the event of catastrophic loss of live data a failover to the DR site would be necessary.
Google Google's RTO is zero.
Virtru See 'Virtru Incident & Breach Policy'
Salesforce Customer data, up to the last committed transaction, is replicated to disk in near-real time at the designated disaster recovery data center, and backed up at the primary data center. Backups are performed daily at primary data center facility without stopping access to the application.
For business continuity purposes, Salesforce supports disaster recovery with a dedicated team and a 4 hour recovery point objective (RPO) and 12 hour recovery time objective (RTO).
Additional details can be provided with the execution of an NDA between Salesforce and your Agency.
ServiceNow Please see our response for 8.8.1a
QTS As defined in QTS OPS_POL_54_QTS-FC_Contingency_Planning_Policy (v1.2 – 2/6/14), QTS cloud has identified the following potential accessibility problems:
• Network Outage – Short Term
• Network Outage – Long Term
• Facility Power or Environmental Outage – Short Term
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• Facility Power or Environmental Outage – Long Term
• Serious Facility Damage – Short Term
• Serious Facility Damage – Long Term or Permanent
Both the RIC2 and ATL1 QTS cloud Infrastructure is an Active/Active system and can operate independently of each other indefinitely.
If QTS cloud determines that any single event (network, power, facility damage) presents a longterm threat, QTS immediately conducts an emergency meeting and plan to remedy or relocate infrastructure to a viable facility."
SAP Ariba Ariba has implemented two sites within each region. In North America the sites are currently located in San Jose, California and Sterling, VA. In Europe the sites are located in St. Leon-Rot, Germany and Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The act of failing over from one site to another has a design goal for its Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of no more than four hours. The design goal for the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is five minutes.
Fieldglass Fieldglass offers the following:
• RTO = No more than 48 hours
• RPO = No more than 6 hours.
Warm site replica with 100% processing power of original site. Disaster recovery site can run without need from resumption.
Hanna See our RTO and RPO info below
Hybris For a cloud solution, data backup and restore is handled by SAP.SAP shall follow its archiving procedures for Customer Data as set out in the SAP Hybris Commerce, cloud edition Services Description. In the event of any loss or damage to Customer Data, SAP shall use commercially reasonable efforts to restore the lost or damaged Customer Data from the latest back- up of such Customer Data maintained by SAP in accordance with the archiving procedure described in its SAP Hybris Commerce, cloud edition Services Description. SAP shall not be responsible for any loss, destruction, alteration or disclosure of Customer Data caused by any third party, (except those third parties sub- contracted by SAP to perform services related to Customer Data maintenance and back-up).
Both IDS and IPS are included the SAP Hybris Commerce, Cloud Edition The security infrastructure includes firewall security and hardened security policies on all servers. Log management procedures are in-place for log review for firewall, applications, network devices, including file-integrity management. SAP Hybris utilizes technologies from leading security firms for Log Management and File Integrity Management. SAP Hybris employs twofactor authentication across its network. SAP Hybris undergoes vulnerability and penetration testing. SAP Hybris validates against requirements for PCI DSS 2.0.
The infrastructure also includes Web Application Firewalls and DDoS Mitigation Services.
In addition, security policies and change management policies are in-place ensuring that all access and changes to customer systems and information is accessible only by SAP Hybris staff with access authorization.
Security of the software application which is controlled by the Customer (or its implementation partner) remains the responsibility of the Customer.
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the Order Form to allow Customer to retrieve Customer Data, or (ii) receives, no later than thirty (30) days after the effective date of the termination of this Agreement, a written request for the delivery to Customer of the then most recent back-up of the Customer Data. SAP shall use reasonable commercial efforts to deliver the back-up to Customer within thirty (30) days of its receipt of such a written request, provided that Customer has, at that time, paid all fees and charges outstanding and owed at termination. Customer shall pay all reasonable fees and expenses incurred by SAP in returning or disposing of the Customer Data.
SuccessFactors RPO and RTO are defined in the general terms and conditions VMware VMware Response:
VMware IaaS Services
VMware DR service.
We can discuss specific recovery information under NDA to participating entities during task order negotiations as required.
AirWatch Hosted Services
We can discuss specific recovery information under NDA to participating entities during task order negotiations as required.
FireEye FireEye has a mature and documented Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan that follows industry best practices that is reviewed and tested annually. The BCP/DRP plan has RPO/RTO timing criteria and other critical business requirements that is available for review if requested in the future.
VirtueStream Basic Plus microVM’s are designed for mission-critical workloads and for systems that require DR, addition of reserved compute capacity in a secondary datacenter (i.e. Reserve uVM) and automatic storage replication to facilitate the ability to restore operations in the event of an outage at the primary data center. RPO and RTO for core microVM's are 15 minutes and 2 hours respectively.
e. Describe your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO).
CA APM Recovery Point Objective (RPO): Maximum data loss: 24 hours Data that is uploaded, but not backed up within the 24 hours may have to be reentered Recovery Time Objective (RTO): 72 hours
MAA Recovery Point Objective (RPO): Maximum data loss: 24 hours Data that is uploaded, but not backed up within the 24 hours may have to be reentered Recovery Time Objective (RTO): 72 hours
CA Agile RTO: 2 hours
RPO: 12 hours
ASM Recovery Point Objective (RPO): Maximum data loss: 24 hours Data that is uploaded, but not backed up within the 24 hours may have to be reentered Recovery Time Objective (RTO): 24 hours
Google RPO/RTO objectives are zero hours.
AODocs AODocs is hosted on Google App Engine which is designed to be highly available. Our standard SLA is 99.5% . Specific financial penalties can be discussed as part of the AODocs license contract.
Google App Engine is running in multiple datacenters on multiple continents.
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AODocs data is backed up on a daily basis, and backups are stored on the highly redundant Google Cloud Storage. Backups are retained for at least 90 days Virtru See 'Virtru Incident & Breach Policy'
Salesforce For business continuity purposes, Salesforce supports disaster recovery with a dedicated team and a 4 hour recovery point objective (RPO) and 12 hour recovery time objective (RTO).
Additional details can be provided with the execution of an NDA between Salesforce and your Agency.
ServiceNow Please see our response for 8.8.1a
QTS QTS DRaaS will support all of your mission-critical application needs and enables you to achieve a RTO within minutes and RPO of just seconds.
SAP Ariba See above
Fieldglass Fieldglass offers the following:
• RTO = No more than 48 hours
• RPO = No more than 6 hours.
Warm site replica with 100% processing power of original site. Disaster recovery site can run without need from resumption.
Hanna For disaster Recovery, SAP HEC offers the following RTO & RPO
1. HANA Database
RTO - 12 hours, RPO - 30 minutes
2. Sybase ASE Database
RTO - 12 hours, RPO - 30 minutes
Hybris In the case of catastrophic failure to your primary production data center, we offer anywhere from best efforts to enhanced DR solutions. Enhanced DR options translates to either RTO of 8 hours and RPO of 1 hour for a warm standby solution, or RTO of 30 minutes to RPO of 30 minutes for a hot-site.
Customers have 3 choices in DR sites:
• as part of our base offering, best effort DR, we would bring your site back up in an alternate datacenter which is a minimum of 500 miles away from the primary datacenter. We would actually push your project server images to the alternate datacenter, but we would still need to set up your various interfaces, 3rd party services, etc, which could day a few days.
• 2nd would be to have your DR site managed by hybris Managed Services. • 3rd would be to use your own DC as a DR site, We would need to set up a technical call with our combined teams to synch up on the replication strategies.
• Our DR services utilizes VMware Site Recovery Manager with storage-based replication.
• For enhanced DR, we would include one annual DR test, but more can be added if required. It also includes a customer specific DR and Business Continuity plan.
SuccessFactors Within the contract/subscription agreement, there are provisions for data recovery in the event of disaster. SLA's for RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) are defined in the contract. We will prioritize data recovery based upon our contractual obligations for each customer, concerning RTO and RPO.
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VMware VMware IaaS Services
Provide the RPO and RTO for DR, point to SLAs for others.
RTO – 4 hours or less
RPO – 15 minutes to 24 hours – time is configurable by user but there is a bandwidth consideration for shorter replication times.
VMWare AirWatch
AirWatch Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies include data and hardware redundancy, network configuration redundancy and backups, and robust, regular testing exercises.
• Business Continuity – Our BC recovery strategies for support and maintenance include provisions for workforce mobility, secondary support locations, and defined leadership roles and responsibilities for all recovery staff.
o Multiple Support Locations – AirWatch maintains a Global Support Team, which spans multiple offices around the world. This ensures that if a disaster occurs at one of our offices, our remaining Support Team members can provide assistance to our customers. o Mobile Workforce – Should an AirWatch office become inaccessible, all AirWatch employees are equipped with laptops and can access necessary internal resources. o Defined Leadership – During a disaster, roles and responsibilities are assigned to key personnel, and a recovery manager provides leadership and documents the continuity process. Additionally, emergency contact numbers for key personnel are provided for all vendors and support staff. • High Availability and Disaster Recovery – AirWatch features active-passive configurations for high availability and redundancy with all components made to failover with minimal downtime.
Load balancing capabilities are deployed across multiple data centers to ensure immediate server pick up, ensuring zero end user downtime. AirWatch also incorporates replication technology featuring SQL log shipping or network SAN byte replication to prevent data loss.
Due to FOIA restrictions and the competitive nature of the EMM marketplace, we cannot provide specific details regarding recovery strategies or timelines.
FireEye FireEye has a mature and documented Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan that follows industry best practices that is reviewed and tested annually. The BCP/DRP plan has RPO/RTO timing criteria and other critical business requirements that is available for review if requested in the future.
VirtueStream Virtustream’s solution will have a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 2 Hours and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 30 Minutes for all disaster recovery enabled workloads.
The Virtustream Cloud has been designed to deliver continuous operations. The platform is architected to be highly available, with SLAs as up to 99.99%. All infrastructure systems are run in at least an N+1 model and have been designed with no single points of failure. All of the data center facilities and infrastructure has redundant power supplies connected to separate circuits from separate power feeds. Every device is connected via redundant pathways at a LAN/SAN/WAN layer.
State of Utah can choose any of our FedRAMP Data Centers to host their applications and the DR location. For illustrative purposes, we have assumed the primary data center will be USDC02 and DR data center would be USDC01.
The State of Utah solution has been designed with all workloads running in our San Francisco (USDC02) data center. In the unlikely event of a disaster at the USDC02 facility, State of Utah’s production services will be brought back online in the secondary data center located in Northern Virginia (USDC01). The target RPO is 30 minutes for virtual machines with a 2 hour RTO. All production workloads in the primary node will have reserved compute capacity in the secondary node when deployed using Reserve µVMs and replicated storage. All virtual machine disaster recovery services are based on storage replication. The primary and secondary data centers are interconnected by diverse private 10 Gbps Sonet rings from separate Tier 1 providers – AboveNet and Level 3. Data is replicated asynchronously and continuously between the two data centers.
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Virtustream also performs backups on a nightly basis and replicated offsite for further protection.
The retention policies are determined by State of Utah per landscape and will be documented during the on-boarding process.
Figure 2. Integrated Disaster Recovery
8.8.2 Describe your methodologies for the following backup and restore services:
a. Method of data backups
CA APM Backups are stored on disk only
MAA Backups are stored on disk only, sync'd between data centers for DR purposes.
CA Agile Full database backups are taken once per week, both to onsite and offsite (our warm data center, not a separate 3rd party) systems. Incremental backups are run nightly.
Backups are retained for 21 days after which time they are simply aged out and overwritten.
In addition, snapshots of database transactions are taken every hour to an disaster recovery site allowing for emergency disaster recovery with maximum of 1.5 hours of data loss due to catastrophic onsite failure (fire in cage, natural disaster, etc. at data center). Backups are tested monthly and a full disaster recovery process to the offsite application cluster is tested semi-annually.
ASM Backups are stored on disk only, sync'd between data centers for DR purposes.
Google Keeping in mind that Google stores customer data in encrypted chunks or shards on several servers at several data centers backups should not be considered customer specific. Daily backups of each server are performed to encrypted tapes at each data center.
Virtru We perform live database replication to a separate redundant database in Oregon and offline as well in a separate Amazon AWS Region
Salesforce Customer data, up to the last committed transaction, is replicated to disk in near-real time at the designated disaster recovery data center, backed up at the primary data center, and then cloned to the disaster recovery data center. Disaster recovery tests verify our projected recovery times and the integrity of the customer data.
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Backups are performed daily at each data center facility without stopping access to the application. Backup cloning is transmitted over an encrypted network (our MPLS network across all data centers). Tapes never leave our secure data center facilities, unless they are to be retired and destroyed through a secure destruction process.
The backup retention policy is 90 days (30 days for sandboxes). Deleted / modified data cannot be recovered after 90 days (30 days for sandboxes). If customers want a longer retention, they can use the weekly export feature available in the system.
ServiceNow While Advanced High Availability as described in 8.8.1 is the primary means to recover data and restore service in the case of a service disruption, in certain cases it is desirable to use ServiceNow’s more traditional data backup and recovery mechanism. This data backup and recovery system works in concert with AHA and acts as a secondary recovery mechanism.
ServiceNow stores production instances in two geographically separate regional data centers, with sub-production instances hosted in a single data center. Backups of the two production databases and the single sub-production database are taken everyday for all instances throughout the private cloud infrastructure.
The backup cycle consists of four weekly full backups and the past 6 days of daily differential backups that provide 28 days of backups. All backups are written to disk, no tapes are used and no backups are sent off site. All the controls that apply to live customer data also apply to backups. If data is encrypted in the live database then it will also be encrypted in the backups.
Regular, automated tests are run to ensure the quality of backups. Any failures are reported for remediation within ServiceNow.
QTS QTS operates and manages high-performance, multi-tenant platforms on which customer system and data file backups can be created and retained for rapid restore of files/volumes. Data can be stored on tape or disk, depending on QTS location, and can reside locally in a QTS data center or off-site. If there is a need for off-site data retention, the backup medium is tape. QTS can also replicate the backed up data from the primary site to a secondary (remote) site to address geographically remote storage and DR requirements.
Secure: QTS utilizes a separate, secure gigabit backup network with private VLAN security.
Physical security is monitored using a priority badge access system to limit access to the tape libraries, disk arrays, servers, and network infrastructure. From the application, the backup software controls access to the data stored on tape, and access security is limited to QTS staff only.
Scalable: QTS backup systems are highly scalable, and capacity can be quickly added as needed.
SAP Ariba Our primary data center is Equinix, in San Jose; CA. Ariba's backup data center is CenturyLink in Sterling, VA. We make many copies of our data to insure no data loss happens:
Data is stored in databases on high-availability storage disk-based system in primary datacenter
Data is copied as backup to high-availability disk storage in the primary datacenter
Data is copied to tape and kept in the primary data center Data is copied to tape and kept in an off-site tape storage facility (Iron Mountain) in Union City
Data is replicated to databases high-availability storage disk-based system in the backup datacenter
Data is copied as backup to high-availability disk storage in the backup datacenter
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Data replication to the remote datacenter happens in near-real time.
Data is backed up to the backup disks multiple times a day (in each location) Data is written to tape once a day (in each location)
These processes and procedures are audited against the ISAE 3402 standard. Our auditor verifies we can restore from these backup methods.
Fieldglass All data in the Fieldglass system is stored within our clustered databases. Full backups daily, 15 minute incremental backups, and replication from center to center of backup data continuously.
Hanna The backup of SAP systems in HEC is executed on EMC DataDomain deduplication storage. This is done using EMC Networker for backup and administration. The backups on Site A are also replicated to remote Site B.
SuccessFactors Data backup is undertaken as follows: storage system snapshots every 24 hours, nightly incremental database backups, and weekly full database backups. These are all standard and provided as part of our hosted service.
All backups are stored on disk in the primary and backup data center facilities for 30 days.
Database backups are encrypted and stored at a customer’s “primary” location, as well as the “alternate” warm-site location for redundancy and disaster recovery purposes. If the customer’s primary location is defined as the data center in Amsterdam, NL, then copies of their database would be encrypted and streamed in a secure manner to the data center based in St Leon-Rot, DE, and vice versa. The backup is stored on Storage Area Network systems encrypted with AES-256 bit by encryption appliance. Backups are retained for 30 days. Our Log File Retention Policy is designed to meet or exceed the most stringent industry standards. Archiving of data is the customer's responsibility.
VMware VMware will provide the following services to participating entities with respect to Data Recovery:
•Data protection, such as routine backups, for the vCloud Air infrastructure, including top-layer management and user-management interfaces owned and operated by VMware. •Data and infrastructure restoration for the vCloud Air infrastructure, including top-layer management and user-management interfaces owned and operated by VMware.
Participating entities will be responsible for the following services with respect to Data Recovery:
•Data protection, such as routine backups, for the data and content accessed or stored on vCloud Air virtual machine’s or storage devices, configuration settings, etc. •Data, content, virtual machine and configuration restorations for assets accessed or stored on your vCloud Air account.
Data Protection is an optional service that provides secure, image-based backup and recovery capabilities that enable you to protect important virtual machine data and content hosted in your vCloud Air IaaS environment. Through the Data Protection administration interface available in the vCloud Air Console, vApps and their virtual machine members can be selected for policy-based backup and recovery operations.
Data Protection feature subscription and activation may be requested via My VMware and is subject to additional service fees based on the amount of backup data capacity. Backup data capacity for the service is measured in front end terabytes (FETB). Once activated, vApps and their virtual machine members may be registered and unregistered with Data Protection features on a self-service basis through the vCloud Air Console.
As part of this service, VMware will:
•Implement and maintain central service components (backup software appliances, backup and archival storage media and associated network topologies) needed to support Data Protection features.
•Perform routine configuration, maintenance and optimization services on behalf of the Data Protection environment and in conformance with industry best practices.
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•Allocate requisite backup storage based on capacity selections made at the time of subscription enrollment.
•Guarantee storage locality per geographical region for all backup data. •Provide necessary Data Protection service reporting as it is requested.
Participating entities will be responsible for:
•Subscribing to Data Protection as an add-on feature via My VMware and selecting an amount of backup storage capacity commensurate with your requirements. •Creating custom backup protection policies that may include, but are not limited to: affinity settings per VDC, scheduling, and retention periods.
•Registering and unregistering individual vApps and their virtual machine members for scheduled backups using Data Protection.
•Performing any on-demand backups per vApp and its virtual machine members. •Performing in-place or out-of-place restores per vApp and/or individual virtual machine. •Managing any in-guest recovery tasks, including restore operations at the operating system, file systems and/or any application level.
•Managing backup storage capacity and consumption that may include, but is not limited to:
activity reporting, ordering additional storage capacity via My VMwareTM and deleting any backup data in inventory to free up space.
FireEye All backup and restore procedures are in compliance with SOC 2 specifications. Data and server images are backed up digitally and replicated to datacenters in geographically different locations.
VirtueStream Virtustream performs backups on a nightly basis and replicated offsite for further protection. The retention policies are determined by State of Utah per landscape and will be documented during the on-boarding process.
Virtustream provides OS level files are protected with a File System backup and then protect the application with an integrated solution. Some of the databases would dump to a flat file format and those files would be protected with the standard file system backup. b. Method of server image backups
CA APM N/A
MAA Automation tools are used to manage the configuration of MAA internal servers, and can be used for recovery.
CA Agile Systems are not backed up as we have determined rebuilding is faster than restoring.
We manage systems through Chef and the configuration cookbooks are backed up.
ASM Automation tools are used to manage the configuration of ASM internal servers, and can be used for recovery.
Virtru All images are backed up onto cloud storage on two separate provider systems Salesforce Each server has been allocated a different volume group so it can fail over to its backup server within the instance independently of the others.
ServiceNow Please see our response to 8.8.2a
QTS Your data storage requirements are growing exponentially and a scalable comprehensive solution for storage and data protection is absolutely necessary in today’s marketplace. Implementing and managing this necessary storage infrastructure to meet both your application and compliance requirements can be extremely time consuming and costly.
Outsource your storage needs to QTS. With our portfolio of high-performance and cost-effective managed storage services, your data will be secure and guaranteed to be available when you need it. By leveraging market leading hardware and software, coupled with certified processes and personnel, QTS delivers dependable, auditable solutions.
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Managed SAN (Shared and Dedicated)- a fast, reliable Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI SAN attached storage solution that easily scales to meet your business requirements.
SAN-to-SAN Replication - provides block level asynchronous replication of your Managed SAN FC service between two of our state-of-the-art data centers for your disaster recovery needs.
SAP Ariba See above
Fieldglass Fieldglass does not run server image backups. All systems are designed to be created through a series of templates and scripts.
Hanna The defined backup package includes a file system, operating system files, and the database backup. The frequency in which the backup is executed varies for each of the components mentioned above. This depends on the standard HEC service schedules and the service levels agreed on with the customer.
VMware VMware will provide the following services to participating entities with respect to Data Recovery:
•Data protection, such as routine backups, for the vCloud Air infrastructure, including top-layer management and user-management interfaces owned and operated by VMware. •Data and infrastructure restoration for the vCloud Air infrastructure, including top-layer management and user-management interfaces owned and operated by VMware.
Participating entities will be responsible for the following services with respect to Data Recovery:
•Data protection, such as routine backups, for the data and content accessed or stored on vCloud Air virtual machine’s or storage devices, configuration settings, etc. •Data, content, virtual machine and configuration restorations for assets accessed or stored on your vCloud Air account.
Data Protection is an optional service that provides secure, image-based backup and recovery capabilities that enable you to protect important virtual machine data and content hosted in your vCloud Air IaaS environment. Through the Data Protection administration interface available in the vCloud Air Console, vApps and their virtual machine members can be selected for policy-based backup and recovery operations.
Data Protection feature subscription and activation may be requested via My VMware and is subject to additional service fees based on the amount of backup data capacity. Backup data capacity for the service is measured in front end terabytes (FETB). Once activated, vApps and their virtual machine members may be registered and unregistered with Data Protection features on a self-service basis through the vCloud Air Console.
As part of this service, VMware will:
•Implement and maintain central service components (backup software appliances, backup and archival storage media and associated network topologies) needed to support Data Protection features.
•Perform routine configuration, maintenance and optimization services on behalf of the Data Protection environment and in conformance with industry best practices. •Allocate requisite backup storage based on capacity selections made at the time of subscription enrollment.
•Guarantee storage locality per geographical region for all backup data. •Provide necessary Data Protection service reporting as it is requested.
Participating entities will be responsible for:
•Subscribing to Data Protection as an add-on feature via My VMware and selecting an amount of backup storage capacity commensurate with your requirements. •Creating custom backup protection policies that may include, but are not limited to: affinity settings per VDC, scheduling, and retention periods.
•Registering and unregistering individual vApps and their virtual machine members for scheduled backups using Data Protection.
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•Performing any on-demand backups per vApp and its virtual machine members. •Performing in-place or out-of-place restores per vApp and/or individual virtual machine. •Managing any in-guest recovery tasks, including restore operations at the operating system, file systems and/or any application level.
•Managing backup storage capacity and consumption that may include, but is not limited to:
activity reporting, ordering additional storage capacity via My VMwareTM and deleting any backup data in inventory to free up space.
FireEye All backup and restore procedures are in compliance with SOC 2 specifications. Data and server images are backed up digitally and replicated to datacenters in geographically different locations.
VirtueStream OS level files are protected with a File System backup and then protect the application with an integrated solution where available. Otherwise databases would dump to a flat file format and those files would be protected with the standard file system backup. Additionally, core microVM’s are automatically replicated to a secondary datacenter for DR purposes. c. Digital location of backup storage (secondary storage, tape, etc.) CA APM Backups are securely replicated to an alternate location (within the same geographic location (e.g. N. America))
MAA Daily differential and full backups reside in the primacy site with weekly data backups residing offsite.
CA Agile Backups are stored in our warm data center.
ASM CA has an alternate site approximately 900 miles from our primary site.
Google Tape
Virtru All backup storage is hosten in two separate cloud storage regions Salesforce Backups are performed daily at each data center facility without stopping access to the application. Backup cloning is transmitted over an encrypted network (our MPLS network across all data centers). Tapes never leave our secure data center facilities, unless they are to be retired and destroyed through a secure destruction process.
ServiceNow Please see our response to 8.8.2a
QTS Managed Tape Rotation and Off-site Storage
This service provides off-site storage for data backup, and helps many customers who must store data separately from a primary IT site to comply with various laws and regulations. QTS has contracted Iron Mountain — a nationally recognized leader in off-site data storage services — to move the data storage media (tapes) to and from a secure, off-site location. The service enables data security, integrity, and restoration in the event of an outage. Off-site data storage via tape ensures that a customer’s information is securely stored in multiple locations. In the event of an emergency,
QTS and Iron Mountain deliver the customer’s media back to their IT environment or wherever they request delivery.
Secure: QTS staff adheres to storage-industry best practices and security procedures. QTS facilities have earned SSAE16-SOC1 accreditations. All media is maintained in a secure environment and locked in secure media containers during transition from the QTS environment to the off-site storage location.
Compliance and Tracking: QTS’s partnership with Iron Mountain provides the ability to offer logging and tracking information about the customer’s off-site media via the SecureSync Web portal.
SAP Ariba See above
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Fieldglass Fieldglass houses all backup data vaults within its production data centers.
Replicas of the vault are performed continuously across data centers more than 1,000 miles apart.
SuccessFactors All data is backed up to the secondary site and can be restored from there in the event of a disaster recovery event at the primary site.
VMware VMware vCloud Air Data Protection provides backup storage to disk FireEye All backup and restore procedures are in compliance with SOC 2 specifications. Data and server images are backed up digitally and replicated to datacenters in geographically different locations.
VirtueStream Virtustream performs backups on a nightly basis and replicated offsite for further protection. The retention policies are determined by State of Utah per landscape and will be documented during the on-boarding process.
Backup data is stored on local enterprise class disk storage systems and can be replicated to systems in a secondary Virtustream datacenter. All of Virtustream backup is disk based solution.
Encryption keys are generated at the time of backup application install on the Client VM(s).
Encryption keys are at least AES-128 but can be AES-256. Keys are stored on the backup system databases using the encryption key management tool, the data about the keys on the database is in a unreadable format and cannot be decrypted
d. Alternate data center strategies for primary data centers within the continental United States.
CA APM The location where data is stored is generally in the country where the contract is executed.
MAA The MAA service is currently available from one data center only.
CA Agile We have a hot/warm data configuration with both data centers located within the US but ~1300 miles apart.
ASM ASM has a warm standby with near time data replication between the data centers.
Google Google does not use the N+1 data center assignment due to the risk of cascading failures.
Google's infrastructure makes a dynamic decision for each unique login session which data center is the closest, most highly available data center and which data centers will be used as secondary and tertiary. This assignment would shift for that session throughout the day based on availability and is done completely seamless to the end user.
Virtru We utilize multiple availability zones in AWS, and backup all data stored in our database to separate datacenters
Salesforce Customer Data for customers in Salesforce’s Government Cloud is stored in two of our U.S. data center locations.
The Salesforce service performs near real-time replication at each data center and annual disaster recovery tests for the service verify the projected recovery times and data replication between the production data center and the disaster recovery center. The disaster recovery site is a 100% replica of the primary production site of capacity (host, network, storage, data). Data is transmitted between the primary and disaster recovery data centers across encrypted links. Additionally, backups of data are performed and data is retained on backups at the geographically separated disaster recovery data center location.
ServiceNow Please see our response to 8.8.2a
QTS The QTS cloud alternate storage sites are located at the following data centers: Richmond, VA, Atlanta, GA, and Suwanee, GA.
The entire QTS cloud is a unified standalone Active cloud architecture and is backed up in both Atlanta and Richmond to include:
Customer data in the Service Delivery Hypervisor Cluster, and; Cloud Hypervisor Management Infrastructure and Configuration backups.
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The QTS cloud Security documentation is backed up in alternate site located Suwanee, GA to include:
Software/operating Systems, Configuration Data and Security Documentation QTS cloud Management Infrastructure and Configuration Data:
Richmond, VA: The Richmond Cloud Management Layer (Cloud Hypervisor Management Cluster) and Customer data in the Service Delivery Hypervisor Cluster, and Configuration data is backed and staged locally in Richmond on the management layer then backed up across the Site-to-Site Management VPN to Atlanta, GA. This process is separate and independent of the Customers Service Delivery Layer. Atlanta, GA: The Atlanta Cloud Management Layer (Cloud Hypervisor Management Cluster) and Configuration data is backed and staged locally in Atlanta on the management layer then backed up across the Site-to-Site Management VPN to Richmond, VA.
This process is separate and independent of the Customers Service Delivery Layer.
This process maintains both local and remote management layer data and configuration backup for both locations.
Suwanee, GA: software/operating systems, configuration data and security documentation at Rocstor Rocsecure Amphibious X7s with Secure-Encrypted Two-Factor Authentication, Utilizing AES-256 CBC Real-Time Hardware Encryption, with NIST and FIPS 140-2 Certified Cryptographic Modules, in a firerated safe located at Suwanee, GA.
SAP Ariba We have a warm site for failover. Equinix (Our primary data center) is located in San Jose, California and our disaster recovery site is located at CenturyLink Data Center in Sterling, Virginia. The act of failing over from the main data center to the recovery site data center has a design goal recovery time objective (RTO) of four hours. The design goal Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is five minutes.
In the event of a fail-over to the disaster recovery site location, all URLs that customers use to reach the San Jose data center will continue to work. We will notify customers via their email addresses in the event of unplanned downtime.
Internally, we use a documented system recovery plan that outlines the approach and steps for recovering the applications.
The document defines roles and responsibilities in the event of disaster:
Local staff maintains the hardware remotely
We maintain the application software
Processes are in place to keep database and fileservers in sync between primary and backup data centers
In the event of a catastrophe, we will declare the primary data center ""down"" and our local staff will follow a script to start the applications at the remote data center
We test power outage backup scenarios and the Disaster Recovery Plan on a periodic basis.
Fieldglass Please see the answer to Question 8.8.2A. above. Fieldglass' backup data center is located in San Jose, CA.
Hanna The backup of SAP systems in HEC is executed on EMC DataDomain deduplication storage. This is done using EMC Networker for backup and administration. The backups on Site A are also replicated to remote Site B.
For example, site A &B may be Santa Clara, CA and Sterling, VA, respectively.
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options translates to either RTO of 8 hours and RPO of 1 hour for a warm standby solution, or RTO of 30 minutes to RPO of 30 minutes for a hot-site.
Customers have 3 choices in DR sites:
• as part of our base offering, best effort DR, we would bring your site back up in an alternate datacenter which is a minimum of 500 miles away from the primary datacenter. We would actually push your project server images to the alternate datacenter, but we would still need to set up your various interfaces, 3rd party services, etc, which could day a few days.
• 2nd would be to have your DR site managed by hybris Managed Services. • 3rd would be to use your own DC as a DR site, We would need to set up a technical call with our combined teams to synch up on the replication strategies.
• Our DR services utilizes VMware Site Recovery Manager with storage-based replication.
• For enhanced DR, we would include one annual DR test, but more can be added if required. It also includes a customer specific DR and Business Continuity plan.
SuccessFactors Each client has a designated primary and backup data center which is geographically separated as well as existing on different power and telecommunications grids.
VMware Customers can purchase Rackware to provide geographical HA and COOP, but this service is not provided as a core capability of vCA or vCGS. VMware AirWatch AirWatch backs up the production environment from the primary US data center to the secondary US data center. Due to FOIA restrictions and the competitive nature of the EMM landscape, we cannot provide additional backup scheduling or image security procedures.
FireEye All backup and restore procedures are in compliance with SOC 2 specifications. Data and server images are backed up digitally and replicated to datacenters in geographically different locations.
VirtueStream State of Utah can choose any of our FedRAMP Data Centers to host their applications and the DR location. For illustrative purposes, we have assumed the primary data center will be USDC02 and DR data center would be USDC01.
The State of Utah solution has been designed with all workloads running in our San Francisco (USDC02) data center. In the unlikely event of a disaster at the USDC02 facility, State of Utah’s production services will be brought back online in the secondary data center located in Northern Virginia (USDC01). The target Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is 30 minutes for virtual machines with a 2 hour Recovery Time Objective (RTO). All production workloads in the primary node will have reserved compute capacity in the secondary node when deployed using Enterprise Reserve µVMs and replicated storage. All virtual machine disaster recovery services are based on storage replication. The primary and secondary data centers are interconnected by diverse private 10 Gbps Sonet rings from separate Tier 1 providers – AboveNet and Level 3. Data is replicated asynchronously and continuously between the two data centers. Virtustream also performs backups on a nightly basis and replicated offsite for further protection. The retention policies are determined by State of Utah per landscape and will be documented during the on-boarding process.
8.9 Data Protection
8.9.1 Specify standard encryption technologies and options to protect sensitive data, depending on the particular service model that you intend to provide under this Master Agreement, while in transit or at rest.
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MAA HTTPS/TLS encrypts the data in-transit. Sensitive data rest is encrypted using native encryption of SQL and NoSQL vendors.
CA Agile All data in transit is encrypted - we support TLS 1+. For data at rest we have both database and disk level encryption. DB encryption utilizes Oracle TDE w/ AES-256.
ASM All data transmitted between data centers is encrypted in-transit. HTTPS/TLS is used by the ASM dashboard and API.
Google All connections from customer end point devices to Google's Front End Servers are encrypted with enforced HTTPS sessions using Forward Secrecy. Google websites and properties use robust public key technologies: 2048-bit RSA or P-256 ECDSA SSL certificates issued by a trusted authority (currently the Google Internet Authority G2).
All data in transit between Google's Data Centers traverses across Google's private fiber network using a customized, proprietary encryption technology.
Google hard drives leverage technologies like FDE (full disk encryption) and drive locking, to protect data at rest.
These methods of encryption are fully managed by Google and Google's Key Management Servers based on 128-bit or stronger Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
Encryption Keys and Ciphers Supported by Google
Protocols
TLS 1.2
TLS 1.1
TLS 1.0
SSL 3.04
QUIC
Cipher suites
ECDHE_RSA with AES
ECDHE_RSA with 3DES
ECDHE_ECDSA
RSA with AES
RSA with 3DES
Signing keys
RSA 2048
ECDSA P-256
Hash functions
SHA384
SHA256
SHA1
MD5
AODocs All data in transit is encrypted via SSL/TLS
Vendor interfaces are available only via HTTPS
Email is exchanged via SMTP/TLS
All AODocs data are stored in Google AppEngine.
Virtru AES-256 in CBC mode, TLS 1.2 ECDHE
Salesforce Encryption Capabilities
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respective uses of the Salesforce services. Salesforce believes that these provide its customers the flexibility to comply with laws with stringent privacy and security requirements.
Data In Motion
All transmissions between the user and the Salesforce Services are TLS encrypted with a 2048-bit Public Key. The Services use International/Global Step Up TLS certificates, with AES 256-bit encryption by default.
Data At Rest
Salesforce includes a feature to encrypt custom text fields (ECF):
The fields can be masked appropriately for specific data types (i.e., credit card number, Social Security Number, National Insurance Number, Social Insurance Number).
Access to read the masked parts of the fields is limited by the ""View Encrypted Data"" permission, which is not enabled by default.
Customers can manage their encryption key based on their organization’s security needs and regulatory requirements.
Encrypted fields are encrypted with 128-bit keys and use the AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) algorithm.
Additional Salesforce Encryption Capabilities
Apex Code extends the powerful and proven success of the Force.com platform by introducing the ability to write code that runs on Salesforce servers. This language makes possible the development of a new class of application and features deployed entirely on demand. Using Apex, your Agency can create user interface classes that utilize the Apex crypto class to encrypt field level data up to AES 256-bit encryption.
Third Party Encryption Solutions (Additional License Option) Should additional encryption be required, third party solutions such as CipherCloud, Skyhigh, and PerspecSys are available on the Salesforce AppExchange. These solutions offer data loss prevention, user activity and monitoring, malware protection, as well as data protection with encryption and tokenization. Data can be encrypted and masked at rest, keys managed and stored in Salesforce, and compliance controls to prevent unauthorized access to data and keys.
ServiceNow ServiceNow makes use of encryption for both data in transit and data at rest. ServiceNow provides optional capabilities with regard to the encryption of data at rest within the system, which customers can apply at their own discretion.
Encryption in Transit
ServiceNow customers access their instances over the Internet using forced Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption (AES128/256) for all user access. The level of encryption is based on the browser and must be configured by the customer as ServiceNow does not modify any browser settings. All attempts to access ServiceNow over HTTP are redirected to HTTPS.
Integration Encryption
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email system to send email to ServiceNow over TLS and ServiceNow will receive that email over TLS.
Encryption at Rest
ServiceNow can provide three types of encryption for data at rest that are implemented by the customer or by customer request in the case of edge encryption and dedicated hardware. •Column encryption of customer added fields and attachments: Provides data encryption using AES128/256 or 3DES symmetric key encryption. The customer provides the keys for this encryption.
Data stored in these fields cannot be searched or reported on and this does not support out of the box fields.
•Edge Encryption Proxy: With optional additional cost Edge Encryption, the customers create and control their encryption keys within their own network. Edge Encryption includes a proxy application that resides in a customer's network. This encrypts data before it is sent (also encrypted in transit) from the customer’s environment to the ServiceNow instance. The data always remains encrypted whilst stored in the instance and the data along with the keys and the encryption configuration is never accessible by ServiceNow. Requests for encrypted data must also be made through the proxy application and is therefore decrypted only within the customer’s network before being sent to their end users client browser. Please note that data encrypted with Edge encryption cannot be used by back-end scripts or processes and searching and reporting behavior is also modified through its use. •Full disk encryption: Provides via self-encrypting hard drives with AES256 bit encryption. This encryption capability is only available through the purchase of dedicated ServiceNow hardware at an additional cost. This delivers “at-rest” protection only and is focused solely on preventing data exposure through the loss or theft of hard disks holding customer data.
Wherever possible, ServiceNow leverages existing FIPS 140-2 certified technologies.
Docusign Secure, private SSL 256 bit viewing session
Anti-tampering controls
Signature verification of signing events
Unalterable, systematic capture of signing data
Digital certificate technology
Customer configurable data retention program
SAP Ariba We enforce minimum AES 128-bit encryption using Transport Layer Security (TLS) for all sessions. We encrypt only PCI-DSS data in the database where appropriate and in support of PCI-DSS compliance. All backup media is encrypted using AES 256-bit cipher prior to transporting to off-site storage Fieldglass Our application provides a high level of application-level security through a combination of encryption, page-level access checking, document envelopes, and activity logging. Application security is handled through a combination of programming checks, application server configuration, and database server configuration. Fieldglass uses 2048-bit SSL (HTTPS) encryption for all data transmissions over the public Internet, including data shared between the product and end users and data shared between the product and back-end systems. Data is decrypted on the internal VLAN to allow IDS monitoring.
Passwords are hashed using a one-way hash based on the SHA-256 encryption algorithm. The hash value is saved within the database; not the password.
The base Fieldglass application does not require data that would require breach notifications if compromised. While customers should not store sensitive personal data, custom fields may be defined by the customer that can be encrypted with AES-256 to capture any pertinent and permissible data points. These fields can also be optionally masked from view while entering and viewing the fields in the application.
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Hanna Initial encrypted data load - physical encrypted data transfer possible Encrypted connection to HEC DC - SAP solutions support various VPN-device vendors and specifications that can be used to setup a secure and encrypted tunnel between cloud solutions from SAP on the customer network segment and the customer site.
Optional Data at Rest encryption - HANA encryption at Rest activated during system build upon request.
Moreover data at rest is properly protected against unauthorized access, these controls include
•Physical security controls in SAP HEC Datacenters in place •Physical separation of “online” storage and backup (physically separated DC sections)
•Strict User and Access Management (segregation of duties) •Authorization Management according to the need to know principle also for administrative accounts, e.g. DBAs have limited authorizations to perform DB operation only
•Security Logging and Security Monitoring for critical activities / access Optional encryption in transit can be configured on customer request which requires a different subset of DC's from delivery perspective.
Hybris Encryption is provided through SSL connectivity at the web application layer as well as VPN secure encrypted tunnel for back-office integration connectivity. Further encryption capabilities are available through the hybris Advanced Security Module (optional).
SuccessFactors All data in the system is treated as highly sensitive information. The application and infrastructure offers Strong Encryption, Encryption in Transit and Encryption at Rest, including the following (some of these are options that are not included in the base services):
Transport Layer Security (TLS) technology, consisting of a public key and a private key, to protect sensitive information. The public key is used to encrypt information and the private key is used to decipher it. When a Web browser points to a secured domain, a handshake authenticates the server (website) and the client (browser). An encryption method is established with a unique session key. Customers may then begin a secure session that facilitates message privacy and integrity.
Hitachi SAN storage arrays provide a reliable safe, secure data storage environment. We use AES-256 bit encryption to secure data at the block level of our storage systems.
Backups are performed ""disk to disk"". Data is transported over 3DES VPN and stored on encrypted disk using Data Domain replication technology VMware VMWare IaaS Services
Data in transit will be encrypted based upon the customers selected method of transport (SSL or IPSEC VPN).
Data at rest encryption is the responsibility of the customer. By example HyTrust is an endpoint encryption choice for many vCloud Air customers.
VMWare AirWatch
AirWatch leverages strong, non-proprietary encryption algorithms to protect applicable data at rest and in transit. Due to FOIA restrictions and the competitive nature of the EMM landscape, we cannot provide specific encryption algorithms and protocols.
FireEye Each of the FireEye offered solutions have their own implementations and practices concerning encryption:
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1.Email Threat Prevention (ETP)
ETP offers TLS encryption support for data in transmission. ETP only stores email found to contain malware or malicious content and does not encrypt this data.
2.Mobile Threat Prevention (MTP)
All data in transit is protected using standard TLS encryption. The database itself is not encrypted.
However, all systems are under strict security and access control rules, in compliant with SOC 2 regulations.
3.Threat Analytics Platform (TAP)
All data in-transit between a customer environment and TAP instance in Amazon AWS is encrypted with a 256-bit Twofish key. No customer data is stored on disk, however data stores leverage Amazon AWS S3 encryption settings.
4.FireEye as a Service (FaaS CV)
FireEye appliance communications, and FireEye as a Service (FaaS) non-person entity (NPE) secured inter-process communications employs industry standard HTTPS encrypted web interfaces, and multifactor SSH management access for the end-to-end protection of sensitive customer data. In addition, FaaS communicates with FireEye appliances with additional layers of protected symmetric key exchanges protecting and establishing encrypted channels for inter-device information.
VirtueStream Encryption keys are generated at the time of backup application install on the Client VM(s).
Encryption keys are at least AES-128 but can be AES-256. Keys are stored on the backup system databases using the encryption key management tool. The data about the keys on the database is in an unreadable format and cannot be decrypted.
8.9.2 Describe whether or not it is willing to sign relevant and applicable Business Associate Agreement or any other agreement that may be necessary to protect data with a Purchasing Entity.
Carahsoft would be willing to sign Business Associate Agreements or similar agreements that are set forth with a purpose of protecting customer data.
8.9.3 Offeror must describe how it will only use data for purposes defined in the Master Agreement, participating addendum, or related service level agreement. Offeror shall not use the government data or government related data for any other purpose including but not limited to data mining. Offeror or its subcontractors shall not resell nor otherwise redistribute information gained from its access to the data received as a result of this RFP.
Agreed and understood. Carahsoft and its’ subcontractors will not use any government data for purposes other than those outlined within the frameworks of this contract.
8.10 Service Level Agreements
8.10.1 Offeror must describe whether your sample Service Level Agreement is negotiable. If not describe how it benefits purchasing entity’s not to negotiate your Service Level Agreement.
CA APM The target availability SLA of 99.8% is standard and not negotiable MAA The target availability SLA of 99.8% is standard and not negotiable CA Agile The target availability SLA of 99.8% is standard and not negotiable ASM The target availability SLA of 99.8% is standard and not negotiable Google Google maintains a single SLA for all customers.
AODocs AODocs maintains a single SLA for all customers.
Virtru Agreement can be negotiated for certain large customers.
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Salesforce Salesforce does not typically offer Service Level Agreements as part of the base service offering.
Our approach is to offer a service with high availability and fast resolution of problems. If a customer requires an SLA it will be negotiated separately.
The persistence layer underlying Salesforce Platform is proven database technology that powers all of Salesforce’s products today, serving more than 150,000 organizations and over 4 billion transactions per day with an average request response time of less than .25 seconds all with an average up time of 99.9+ percent.
Salesforce uses commercially reasonable efforts to make its on-demand services available to its customers 24/7, except for planned downtime, for which Salesforce gives customers prior notice, and force majeure events. Excellent availability statistics are critical to Salesforce's customers’ success and to the success of Salesforce as a company. Live and historical statistics on the Salesforce system performance are publicly published at http://trust.salesforce.com/trust/status.
Salesforce has maintained high levels of availability across all Salesforce instances since inception. As the only on-demand vendor to provide daily service-quality data on a public Web site (http://trust.salesforce.com), Salesforce proves that we are the leader in availability. And by making its track record completely transparent, Salesforce proves we are worthy of our customers’ trust. To ensure maximum uptime and continuous availability, Salesforce provides the best redundant data protection and most advanced facilities protection available, along with a complete data recovery plan—all without affecting performance.
ServiceNow ServiceNow’s SLA is not negotiable. ServiceNow delivers the same level of world-class support to all customers as described in the “Subscription Service Guide” included with this response.
ServiceNow’s homogeneous private cloud environment where all applications are on a single platform offers ServiceNow a competitive advantage in being able to concentrate its efforts to make the customer’s user experience the best possible.
The ServiceNow environment is a private cloud, fully owned and operated by ServiceNow.
ServiceNow’s experience & understanding of its private cloud and the benefits provided by a consistent infrastructure and standardized processes allow it to provide a high level of security, availability, and performance in a cost effective and reliable manner.
Docusign Yes SLA's can be modified per contractual agreement.
SAP Ariba Our SLAs are not negotiable. As mentioned above, the SAP Ariba Cloud Service Level Agreement includes a 99.5% uptime.
Fieldglass Our SLA is designed to (i) meet the expectations of our customers and (ii) fit with our operational protocols and capabilities. Because of this our ability to make significant changes to the SLA is limited. However, we are always willing to work with a customer to try and determine how our SLA can address a particular business.
Hanna Our SLAs are not negotiable for Support. Under our SLA, System Availability is 99.5% during each month for productive systems. Customers may claim a credit of 2% of Monthly Subscription Fees for each 1% below SLA (not to exceed 100% of Monthly Subscription Fees). This credit may be applied to a future invoice relating to Cloud Service that did not meet the System Availability SLA.
Hybris Our SLAs are not negotiable for Support. Under our SLA, System Availability is 99.5% during each month for productive systems. Customers may claim a credit of 2% of Monthly Subscription Fees for each 1% below SLA (not to exceed 100% of Monthly Subscription Fees). This credit may be applied to a SOLICITATION # CH16012
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future invoice relating to Cloud Service that did not meet the System Availability SLA.
SuccessFactors Our SLAs are not negotiable for Support. Under our SLA, System Availability is 99.5% during each month for productive systems. Customers may claim a credit of 2% of Monthly Subscription Fees for each 1% below SLA (not to exceed 100% of Monthly Subscription Fees). This credit may be applied to a future invoice relating to Cloud Service that did not meet the System Availability SLA.
VMware VMware’s SLAs are specific to the product or service, and are subject to the product’s Terms of Service (which are also provided). The SLA is specific to the product rather than to the customer, to define the expected availability and recourse should the product not meet the stated availability levels. VMware’s existing customers include Federal, State and Local government customers as well as commercial customers, who successfully utilize our products in accordance with the current SLA and Terms of Service and their applicable, mandatory laws and regulations.
Accordingly, VMware is confident that the existing SLA meets the state and local government requirements, as it is being utilized currently.
VMware IaaS Services
To best work with our customers and improve our terms in alignment with market requirements, VMware is willing to review the terms of its SLA during negotiations of the Participating Addendum to identify how the existing SLA meets the state’s applicable and mandatory laws and regulations.
If it becomes apparent to the parties that it is necessary to revise VMware’s SLA to comply with the state’s applicable and mandatory laws, VMware will enter into discussions about how to best address these requirements
Vmware SaaS Services
VMware AirWatch
AirWatch Service Level Agreements are non-negotiable. AirWatch has a guaranteed uptime SLA of 99.9%. Please refer to the AirWatch Hosted Services Policy for additional information. VMware AirWatch acknowledges that if it is awarded a contract under the RFP that it will annually certify to the Lead State that it still meets or exceeds the mandatory minimum requirements and technical specifications of the RFP.
FireEye SLAs are negotiable.
VirtueStream Virtustream’s Service Level Agreement is generally not negotiable. Our SLAs are one of the strictest in the market place. To change the SLA would mean either changing the design or create operational disruption and higher cost by engaging in non-standard processes and practices. For example, Virtustream’s SLA for Tier 1 storage is 10 ms latency. For Virtustream to change this latency means changing the design for Tier 1 storage.
8.10.2 Offeror, as part of its proposal, must provide a sample of its Service Level Agreement, which should define the performance and other operating parameters within which the infrastructure must operate to meet IT System and Purchasing Entity’s requirements.
Below is a sample of Virtustream’s Service Level Agreement:
SERVICE LEVEL FRAMEWORK
The service levels (“Service Levels”) applicable to the Services specified in Sections 1 and 2 are set forth in Schedule B to this SD (“Service Levels for Cloud Platform Services”). The framework that governs all Service Levels is set forth in this Section.
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does not meet the applicable Service Level, then Virtustream will use commercially reasonable efforts to restore its performance to meet such Service Level.
Service Level Reports
Service Levels will be calculated and measured monthly by Virtustream on a calendar month basis and reported each month for the previous month. The reports will be provided to Customer by the tenth (10th) working day of the month following that to which such report relates, commencing on the second (2nd) month following the Service Start Date and each month thereafter. The monthly service level report will contain at least the following items: (i) Uptime statistics for the month concerned; (ii) an analysis of reported incidents over the previous month, broken down by type for discussion; (iii) action plans for items giving rise to concern; (iv) comments and observations on any issues arising from Virtustream’s performance monitoring activities; (v) recommendations on service delivery strategies to maintain or enhance the service level; and (vi) review of general business requirements (“Service Level Report”).
Cloud Platform Services (CPS) has its own specific service levels as described in this document. Cloud Cover Services (CCS) has service levels that pertain to the CCS offerings and are reported separately. Not all Virtustream customers have CCS but all Virtustream customers use CPS.
Service Level Review Meetings
Monthly Service Level review meetings will be conducted by Virtustream with Customer where the monthly Service Level report specified above will be discussed. If any of the Service Levels measured over the previous calendar month period is not achieved in that month, then Virtustream will include the steps taken to rectify the problem in the next monthly Service Level Report. In addition, the issue shall be an agenda topic for discussion at the next monthly service review meeting. Additionally, after restoring service or otherwise resolving any immediate problem as specified in this SD, if Virtustream fails to provide Services in accordance with the Service Levels, Virtustream shall:
a.Promptly investigate and report on the causes of such problem; b.Provide a Root Cause Analysis of such failure as soon as practical after such failure or at Customer’s request; c.Correct such problem that is Virtustream’s fault or responsibility, as soon as reasonably practicable and coordinate the correction of such problem if Virtustream does not have responsibility for the cause of such problem. d.Advise Customer of the status of remedial efforts being undertaken with respect to such problem; e.Demonstrate to Customer’s reasonable satisfaction that the causes of such problem (that is Virtustream’s fault or responsibility) have been or shall be corrected on a permanent basis; and f.Take corrective actions to prevent any recurrence of such problem (that is Virtustream’s fault or responsibility).
Root Cause Analysis
Promptly following Virtustream’s failure to meet a Service Level, Virtustream will perform a root cause analysis to determine the reason for that failure. Upon Virtustream’s determination of the cause of such failure, it will provide to Customer a preliminary report citing the cause of such failure. If Virtustream determines that the failure was due to Virtustream, an additional report will be provided that details the root causes of the failure, and which details any measures that should be taken to minimize the possibility that such failures will re-occur. Virtustream will correct the problem and use reasonable commercial efforts to minimize the re-occurrence of such failures.
Service Level Exceptions
Virtustream shall not be liable for any failure to meet the Service Levels, to the extent such failure was caused by one or more of the following:
a.A failure of Customer or any of its employees, agents or contractors (including any of Customer’s third party service providers) to perform any of its responsibilities under this SD; b.Any act or omission of Customer or any of its employees, agents or contractors (including Customer’s third party service providers or other third parties acting on behalf of Customer); c.Any hardware, software or other product of a third-party or Customer equipment; d.Any failure of Customer to secure the proper access rights or maintenance and support services with respect to any component of the Services (e.g., hardware, software, network, maintenance) for which Virtustream does not bear operational responsibility;
e.Downtimes resulting from a Virtustream’s scheduled maintenance windows; f.Customer’s reprioritization of the tasks to be performed by Virtustream where such reprioritization causes Virtustream to miss a Service Level;
g.Viruses; provided that the infected Virtustream-provided system had virus protection for which the virus protection software updates were up to date;
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h.An election by Customer to purchase a base commitment that is not sufficient to run Customer’s system (e.g., If a customer elects to size a µVM pool that is insufficient to run the designated workload); i.Issues occurring outside of standard working hours (as defined for business level customers) — for which the Service Level Objectives (SLOs) do not apply;
j.Cloud Cover Services (CCS) offerings — for which the Service Level Objectives (SLOs) do not apply; k.Resolution delays due to lack of client response and/or Customer provided credential based information; l.Priority levels not agreed upon by both customer and supplier; m.Claims of performance degradation not substantiated through Customer provided diagnostic testing results.
8.11 Data Disposal
Specify your data disposal procedures and policies and destruction confirmation process.
The disposal of data will vary based on the type of service that is being provided to the Purchasing Entity by Salesforce. As an example, please see Salesforce response for disposal of government data: Data Disposal and Destruction
In the event of termination of the Salesforce service, requests by your Agency made within 30 days after the effective date of termination or expiration of the Subscription Agreement, Salesforce will make your data available to you for export or download. Once the export has been completed, an email will be sent to you containing a link where you can download a .zip file that contains multiple .csv (spreadsheets) files, each representing your Salesforce objects. Your data on disk is flagged within the database and set to inactive status or what can be referred to as a ""soft delete."" This data is no longer available or accessible to the application but is backed up in the full database backup process. The data remains in this state for 180 days; this is done in the event that the customer decides to resume services or needs the data for a legal reason. At 180 days, the data is marked for deletion (""hard delete"") and will be deleted after 30 more days. Once this ""hard delete"" is executed the customer data is physically deleted and non-recoverable from the database. Following the purge, the data will remain on backup for an additional 90 days prior to being overwritten and unrecoverable.
Media Sanitization
Salesforce has an established process for sanitizing media consistent with industry guidelines and consistent with NIST SP 800-88 Guidelines for Media Sanitization [MP-6].
8.12 Performance Measures and Reporting
8.12.1 Describe your ability to guarantee reliability and uptime greater than 99.5%. Additional points will be awarded for 99.9% or greater availability.
CA APM CA SaaS production environments have an SLA at 99.8% uptime calculated arrear monthly. 1hr response for P1 issues.
MAA CA MAA SaaS production environments have an SLA at 99.8% uptime calculated arrear monthly. 1hr response for P1 issues.
CA Agile For Rally SaaS Unlimited Edition customers, our goal is to provide 99.9% up-time during each calendar quarter. If in any calendar quarter an up-time of 99.5% is not met and our customers were negatively impacted (for example, were unable to login to Rally), we will provide a service credit equal to one month of fees for use of the Rally Service.
ASM CA SaaS production environments have an SLA at 99.8% uptime calculated arrear monthly. 1hr response for P1 issues.
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Google Google Apps services will be operational and available to the customer at least 99.9% of the time in any calendar month. If Google does not meet the Google Apps SLA, the customer will be eligible to receive service credits.
AODocs Altirnao agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts to meet or exceed the Availability Service Level. The Availability Service Level means the Service is available for use by Users for not less than 99.5% of the time excluding the Exclusion Events (as defined below).
Virtru Virtru provides the same SLA as Gmail
Salesforce Salesforce has maintained high levels of availability across all Salesforce instances since inception. As the only on-demand vendor to provide daily service-quality data on a public Web site (http://trust.salesforce.com), Salesforce proves that we are the leader in availability. And by making its track record completely transparent, Salesforce proves we are worthy of our customers’ trust. To ensure maximum uptime and continuous availability, Salesforce provides the best redundant data protection and most advanced facilities protection available, along with a complete data recovery plan—all without affecting performance.
Salesforce uses commercially reasonable efforts to make its on-demand services available to its customers 24/7, except for planned downtime, for which Salesforce gives customers prior notice, and force majeure events. Excellent availability statistics are critical to Salesforce's customers’ success and to the success of Salesforce as a company.
The persistence layer underlying Salesforce Platform is proven database technology that powers all of Salesforce’s products today, serving more than 150,000 organizations and over 4 billion transactions per day with an average request response time of less than .25 seconds all with an average up time of 99.9+ percent.
Salesforce does not typically offer Service Level Agreements as part of the base service offering.
Our approach is to offer a service with high availability and fast resolution of problems. If a customer requires an SLA it will be negotiated separately.
ServiceNow ServiceNow’s Availablity SLA Is 99.8%, excluding Excused Downtime of up to two hours per month. This is achievable through the use of the Advanced High Availability (AHA) architecture described in 8.8.1 that provides failover capabilities for maintenance and service disruptions to minimize downtime.
Docusign DocuSign offers carrier class bank grade, “always on” availability. This means DocuSign has eliminated monthly maintenance (taking 0 minutes of planned downtime per year). We are a multiyear 99.99% operation. Please view the DocuSign Trust site (trust.docusign.com) for additional information.
QTS TIA 942 requirements for the design, construction, and management of Tier III facilities is the design basis for all QTS data centers. Using best-of-breed technologies, QTS’s highly trained, certified data center professionals tailor efficient and reliable solutions to meet individual customer requirements. Primary commercial power is delivered to facilities through diverse, redundant paths to eliminate single points of failure between the nearest electrical substation (usually on-site) and each piece of customer IT equipment. QTS allows users to inspect the engineering drawings to validate that truly redundant N+1 architectures are in place and that the 99.999% uptime guarantee is supported by sound engineering and operational policies. Meaningful Service Level Agreements are backed by financial penalties spelled out in tailored Master Service Agreements with each customer.
SAP Ariba Our data centers have 99.99% uptime. Our application maintains a 99.% official SLA with the last 12 months seeing 99.98% uptime.
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customer may be entitled to receive a credit equal to two percent (2%) of its transaction fees for the service for that month for each one percent (1%) (or portion thereof) by which we fail to achieve such level, up to one hundred percent (100%) of the fees for such month.
Hanna The SAP HEC offers a 99.5% uptime availability SLA for production (PRD) instances and a 95% uptime availability for quality assurance (QAS) and development (DEV) instances. This means that after taking in to account the monthly maintenance window, the TOTAL solution will be available 99.5% of the time - not that we expect it, but this equates to about 3 hours of unscheduled downtime per month. The concept of "total solution" is important because the HEC provides Holistic Solution Availability - our single SLA covers the FULL SOLUTION STACK which means it covers the Infrastructure, Operating System, local DB, the HANA in-Memory DB, and the Application layers. We do not offer individual SLAs on individual layers because if one layer fails, the entire solution is down Hybris The environment is completely redundant and based on a high availability architecture. The hybris private cloud is based on VMWare virtualization and is fully load-balanced.
Customer systems reside on a redundant server infrastructure ensuring that if one server (or part of the server infrastructure) fails, a backup is in place to ensure that systems remain operational.
The infrastructure is load-balanced ensuring high availability of the system during peak usage periods. The load-balancing allows the systems to support large volumes of simultaneous users balancing the load of activity across multiple servers ensuring peak performance of all systems.
Redundancy of Infrastructure Components:
• Multihome connectivity to the Internet backbone. Multiple connections to the internet, allows optimizing the best route as well as redundancy. • At an individual component level, all devices have dual physical power connections to protect against any individual power supply failure • Redundant Firewalls
• Redundant Routers,
• Redundant Load balancers
• Virtualized Application and Web servers
• Clustered Database - active active cluster mode for enhanced redundancy • High performance SAN storage- from Netapp, with built in redundancy at the disk level (NetApp proprietary RAID technology, similar to a RAID 5) • The data centers provide diverse power (Uninterruptible Power Supply), backup generators and air conditioning systems required to ensure equipment remain online with optimal performance 24/7/365.
• SLA: contractually we provide a guarantee on the performance of your application at 99.9% availability.
SuccessFactors We contractually guarantee a minimum of 99.5% system uptime, with the exception of regularly scheduled and emergency maintenance.
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VMware VMware’s SLAs for vCloud Air. Our Availability Commitment ranges from 99.99% - 99.95 based on the Class of Service. The SLAs are subject to the terms of the applicable Terms of Service for the VMware vCloud Air Service Offerings. Dedicated Cloud 99.99%, Virtual Private Cloud 99.95%, Data Protection 99.95%, Disaster Recovery 99.95%, Virtual Private Cloud On-Demand 99.95% Availability Commitment.
IaaS Object Storage: Object Storage powered by Google CLoud Platform (standard) 99.9%, Object Storage powered by Google (durable reduced availability) 99.0% and Object Storage (nearline storage) 99%.
vCloud Government Service Dedicated Cloud 99.95% and Virtual Private Cloud 99.9% Availability Commitment.
FireEye FireEye undertakes all reasonable efforts to ensure the availability for 99.9% of the time during each calendar month. In the event the solution does not meet the monthly service availability, FireEye will provide a credit as outlined in the SLA.
VirtueStream Virtustream solution for VM workload includes the uptime of 99.99%.
8.12.2 Provide your standard uptime service and related Service Level Agreement (SLA) criteria.
CA APM Uptime SLA target is 99.8%
CA runs test scripts using application monitoring tools on the Production system to verify that the CA SaaS service is available. Test scripts are run approximately once every ten (10) minutes, twenty‐four (24) hours per day, seven days per week, throughout the contracted term of the service.
MAA Uptime SLA target is 99.8%
CA runs test scripts using application monitoring tools on the Production system to verify that the CA SaaS service is available. Test scripts are run approximately once every ten (10) minutes, twenty‐four (24) hours per day, seven days per week, throughout the contracted term of the service.
CA Agile See above.
ASM Uptime SLA target is 99.8%
CA runs test scripts using application monitoring tools on the Production system to verify that the CA SaaS service is available. Test scripts are run approximately once every ten (10) minutes, twenty‐four (24) hours per day, seven days per week, throughout the contracted term of the service.
Google Google Cloud Platform SLA: Google's Cloud platform has SLAs ranging from 99.9 - 99.95% uptime.
Salesforce Please see response to 8.12.1 above.
Salesforce does not typically offer Service Level Agreements as part of the base service offering.
Our approach is to offer a service with high availability and fast resolution of problems. If a customer requires an SLA it will be negotiated separately.
Salesforce uses commercially reasonable efforts to make its on-demand services available to its customers 24/7, except for planned downtime, for which Salesforce gives customers prior notice, and force majeure events. Excellent availability statistics are critical to Salesforce's customers’ success and to the success of Salesforce as a company. Live and historical statistics on the Salesforce system performance are publicly published.
ServiceNow DEFINITIONS
(a) “Available” means that the Subscription Service can be accessed by authorized users.
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(b) “Excused Downtime” means: (i) Maintenance Time of up to two (2) hours per month; and (ii) any time the Subscription Service is not Available due to circumstances beyond ServiceNow’s control, including without limitation modifications of the Subscription Service by any person other than ServiceNow or a person acting at ServiceNow’s direction, a Force Majeure Event, general Internet outages, failure of Customer’s infrastructure or connectivity (including without limitation, direct connectivity and virtual private network (VPN) connectivity to the Subscription Service), computer and telecommunications failures and delays, and network intrusions or denial-of-service or other criminal attacks.
(c) “Maintenance Time” means the time the Subscription Service is not Available due to service maintenance.
(d) “Availability SLA” means the percentage of total time during which Customer’s production instances of the Subscription Service are Available during a calendar month, excluding Excused Downtime.
AVAILABILITY
If Customer’s production instances of the Subscription Service fall below the Availability SLA of ninety-nine and eight-tenths percent (99.8%) during a calendar month, Customer’s exclusive remedy for failure of the Subscription Service to meet the Availability SLAs is either: (1) to request that the affected Subscription Term be extended for the number of minutes the Subscription Service was not Available in the month in accordance with the Availability SLA; or (2) to request that ServiceNow issue a service credit to Customer for the dollar value of the number of minutes the Subscription Service was not Available in the month in accordance with the Availability SLA (determined at the deemed per minute rate ServiceNow charges to Customer for Customer’s use of the affected Subscription Service), which Customer may request ServiceNow apply to the next invoice for subscription fees.
REQUESTS
Customer must request all service credits or extensions in writing to ServiceNow within thirty (30) days of the end of the month in which the Availability SLA was not met, identifying the support requests relating to the period Customer’s production instances of the Subscription Service was not Available. The total amount of service credits for any month may not exceed the subscription fee for the affected Subscription Service for the month, and has no cash value. ServiceNow may delay issuing service credits until such amounts reach one thousand U.S. dollars ($1,000) or equivalent currency specified in the applicable Order Form.
Docusign Our industry-leading, global support model is there to back you up, no matter where you do your business. We provide you access to the expertise you want, whether through our communities, our knowledge base and on-demand training, or our team of experienced technical support professionals, who know you and your solutions.
QTS 99.999% uptime guarantee. Meaningful Service Level Agreements are backed by financial penalties spelled out in tailored Master Service Agreements with each customer.
SAP Ariba We guarantee a 99.5% system availability percentage during each month for production versions, with the exception of regularly scheduled and emergency maintenance.
Hanna Technical Availability for PRD systems - 99.5%
Technical Availability for non PRD systems - 95%
SAP shall track and report to Customer the “Technical Availability” in a monthly summary report. SAP HEC can offer a contractual SLA of 99.7 on a case by case basis.
Hybris SLA: contractually we provide a guarantee on the performance of your application at 99.9% availability.
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SuccessFactors We guarantee a 99.5% system availability percentage during each month for production versions, with the exception of regularly scheduled and emergency maintenance.
VMware AirWatch Service Level Agreements are non-negotiable. AirWatch has a guaranteed uptime SLA of 99.9%. Please refer to the AirWatch Hosted Services Policy for additional information. VMware AirWatch acknowledges that if it is awarded a contract under the RFP that it will annually certify to the Lead State that it still meets or exceeds the mandatory minimum requirements and technical specifications of the RFP.
FireEye FireEye cloud solutions are available 99.9% of the time in any calendar month, other than mutually agreed upon and scheduled downtime.
VirtueStream Virtustream IaaS Compute is comprised of computing resources hosted in secure data centers that replace the physical computing hardware traditionally housed on Customer site. These resources include physical servers which are logically divided into VMs (virtual machines), each with an allocation of CPU and memory, and linked to storage.
Terms used in the detailed descriptions below:
•µVM. Pronounced “micro VM,” this is Virtustream’s fine-grained unit of measurement designed to accurately measure the actual consumption of cloud resources. A µVM is a unit of computing resources, comprised of CPU, memory, storage IOPS, and associated local network bandwidth.
The usage of each µVM resource component (CPU, memory, storage input/output, and network bandwidth) is measured at five minute intervals — one unit each for 200MHz of CPU, 768MiB of memory, 40 storage fabric input/output operations per second (IOPS), and 2Mbps of local network bandwidth. The highest of the four is averaged per hour, and the hour values averaged across the month to determine the overall µVM usage for the month.
Note: The measurement is performed at the aggregate level — across Customer’s entire µVM resource pool. Bandwidth usage is only within the data center. •Basic Plus uVM. These terms differentiate the two ways Virtustream offers µVMs services. “Basic Plus” µVM services are limited to a single Virtustream data center and have 99.99% availability for the Customer’s committed level.
“Reserve” µVM service is an equivalent quantity of Basic Plus µVMs reserved at Customerdesignated secondary Virtustream data center for on-going operation during disaster events and during scheduled disaster recovery (DR) exercises.
In both cases, overage resources required (“surges”) up to 20% above the committed level from the contract /order form are provided at the same availability level. If Customer experiences consistent overage above this level, then Customer should reset the committed level. •High Memory. Virtustream offers competitive pricing on compute services for applications that require large amounts of memory (64GiB or more).
•Enterprise These terms identify the “zones” within which µVMs are made available for consumption. The “Enterprise” zone is for use by non-Internet facing workloads. Systems deployed into the Enterprise zone are not directly accessible from the Internet.
Enterprise Basic Plus µVM (IC-uVM-BASP-ENT)
Enterprise Basic Plus µVMs reside in a single Virtustream data center, in the Enterprise zone.
Resource availability is 99.99%, and only at the designated data center.
Overage resources required (“surges”) up to 20% above the committed level from the contract /order form is provided at the same availability level. If Customer experiences consistent overage above this level, then Customer should reset the committed level.
Service Level. 99.99% availability for the Customer’s committed level.
Billing. Monthly, based on resource usage.
Tier 0 Block Storage - Local Only (IC-STO-TOA-LOC)
Block storage with a Latency Service Level of 3ms that is maintained in a single data center with no replication capability.
Billing. Monthly fee, based per GB of storage allocated. Allocated storage is measured every 30 minutes, averaged across the month.
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Tier I Block Storage - Local Only (IC-STO-T1A-LOC)
Block storage with a Latency Service Level of 10ms that is maintained in a single data center with no replication capability.
Billing. Monthly fee, based per GB of storage allocated. Allocated storage is measured every 30 minutes, averaged across the month.
Tier II Block Storage - Local Only (IC-STO-T2A-LOC)
Block storage with a Latency Service Level of 20ms that is maintained in a single data center with no replication capability.
Billing. Monthly fee, based per GB of storage allocated. Allocated storage is measured every 30 minutes, averaged across the month.
Tier III Block Storage - Local Only (IC-STO-T3A-LOC)
Block storage with a Latency Service Level Objective of 40ms that is maintained in a single data center with no replication capability.
Billing. Monthly fee, based per GB of storage allocated. Allocated storage is measured every 30 minutes, averaged across the month.
Tier 0 Block Storage - Replicated (IC-STO-TOA-REP)
Data storage with a Latency Service Level of 3ms that is persisted in Customer’s primary Virtustream data center, and replicated to a second data center with an interval to provide a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes.
Service Level. Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of one (1) hour, and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of fifteen (15) minutes.
Billing. Monthly fee, based per GB of storage allocated.
Tier I Block Storage - Replicated (IC-STO-T1A-REP)
Data storage with a Latency Service Level of 10ms that is persisted in Customer’s primary Virtustream data center, and replicated to a second data center with an interval to provide a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes.
Service Level. Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of one (1) hour, and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of fifteen (15) minutes.
Billing. Monthly fee, based per GB of storage allocated.
Tier II Block Storage - Replicated (IC-STO-T2A-REP)
Data storage with a Latency Service Level of 20ms that is persisted in Customer’s primary Virtustream data center, and replicated to a second data center with an interval to provide a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes.
Service Level. Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of one (1) hour, and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of fifteen (15) minutes.
Billing. Monthly fee, based per GB of storage allocated.
Tier III Block Storage - Replicated (IC-STO-T3A-REP)
Data storage with a Latency Service Level Objective of 40ms that is persisted in Customer’s primary Virtustream data center, and replicated to a second data center with an interval to provide a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes.
Service Level. Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of one (1) hour, and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of fifteen (15) minutes.
Billing. Monthly fee, based per GB of storage allocated.
8.12.3 Specify and provide the process to be used for the participating entity to call/contact you for support, who will be providing the support, and describe the basis of availability.
CA APM CA Support can be engaged by telephone or online via CA Support Online at http://www.support.ca.com. CA Support is available 24x7x365. Technical support will be delivered in accordance with customer preference, and will likely include both telephone and email communications. CA Support Online is available 24 hours per SOLICITATION # CH16012
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day and allows customers to manage their cases (i.e. log, view, set severity level, update and close cases). CA Support Online also provides various other useful features, for example: a knowledge base search; product and documentation downloads; fixes, service pack and patch downloads; support utilities; automated notifications; access to communities, beta programs; subscriptions for hyper notifications, etc.
While working with CA Support engineers on cases, email communications and a remote access capability can also be used to deliver support services. Secure File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and a secure FTP web client allow for the protected transfer of case file attachments to CA Support, with the web client additionally providing case file transfer protection from CA Support. Files are encrypted and stored securely while on CA systems. Optionally unsecure FTP transfers also are supported." MAA CA Support can be engaged by telephone or online via CA Support Online at http://www.support.ca.com. CA Support is available 24x7x365. Technical support will be delivered in accordance with customer preference, and will likely include both telephone and email communications. CA Support Online is available 24 hours per day and allows customers to manage their cases (i.e. log, view, set severity level, update and close cases). CA Support Online also provides various other useful features, for example: a knowledge base search; product and documentation downloads; fixes, service pack and patch downloads; support utilities; automated notifications; access to communities, beta programs; subscriptions for hyper notifications, etc.
While working with CA Support engineers on cases, email communications and a remote access capability can also be used to deliver support services. Secure File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and a secure FTP web client allow for the protected transfer of case file attachments to CA Support, with the web client additionally providing case file transfer protection from CA Support. Files are encrypted and stored securely while on CA systems. Optionally unsecure FTP transfers also are supported." CA Agile Support is available 24/7 and a contact number will be provided upon completion of the contract.
ASM CA Support can be engaged by telephone or online via CA Support Online at http://www.support.ca.com. CA Support is available 24x7x365. Technical support will be delivered in accordance with customer preference, and will likely include both telephone and email communications. CA Support Online is available 24 hours per day and allows customers to manage their cases (i.e. log, view, set severity level, update and close cases). CA Support Online also provides various other useful features, for example: a knowledge base search; product and documentation downloads; fixes, service pack and patch downloads; support utilities; automated notifications; access to communities, beta programs; subscriptions for hyper notifications, etc.
While working with CA Support engineers on cases, email communications and a remote access capability can also be used to deliver support services. Secure File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and a secure FTP web client allow for the protected transfer of case file attachments to CA Support, with the web client additionally providing case file transfer protection from CA Support. Files are encrypted and stored securely while on CA systems. Optionally unsecure FTP transfers also are supported." Google Customers are entitled to direct Google support in additional to whatever Support Services the reseller has to offer. Google has a published Technical Services Support Guide for both Google Apps and Google Cloud Platform that describe the hours of operation, how to get after hours SOLICITATION # CH16012
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support, how to set the priority on a case, how to contact Google, and what the target response times are.
AODocs Customers are entitled to direct AODocs support in additional to whatever Support Services the reseller has to offer.
Salesforce Salesforce is proposing the Premier+Success Plan. Your Agency can cover all of its bases with this plan: support, training, and administration. It’s what the + is all about. The Premier+ Success Plan gives you all the benefits of our Premier success plan, including a support rep assigned to your organization, priority case routing, 1-hour response time, 24x7 phone support, unlimited usage of our entire online course library, plus one very helpful addition: access to your own team of expert Salesforce administrators. This lets you focus on design and management while we support your configuration.
The Premier+ Success Plan includes:
● Unlimited access to our entire online course catalog of 100+ courses ● 24x7 toll-free phone support
● Priority case queuing and routing
● Quick 1-hour response time
● An assigned support account rep
● Force.com code troubleshooting
● Customizable end-user course templates
● Premier Success Review to measure usage and trends
● Access to our pool of Salesforce Certified Administrators who can configure and maintain your Salesforce edition
● Premier Success Review to measure usage and trends
● Includes administration services: Get configuration help. Request 100+ routine configuration updates like creating users, reports, workflow, and dashboards. You take online administration training to learn the basics, then you tell us your business requirements. Our team of certified administrators updates your Salesforce system.
Subject to the Government Cloud Premier+ Success Plan outlined above, access to systems and permissions which could permit access to Customer Data inside of the Salesforce Government Cloud storing U.S. government, U.S. government contractors, and FFRDC Customer Data will be restricted to Qualified U.S. Citizens. Qualified US Citizens are individuals who are United States citizens, and are physically located within the United States when accessing the Salesforce Government Cloud systems; and have completed a background check as a condition of their employment with Salesforce.Severity Levels & Response TimesIssues will be categorized and handled according to an assigned severity level, as follows:
Level 1 - Critical
Response time: 1 Hour*
Critical production issue affecting all users, including system unavailability and data integrity issues with no workaround available.
Level 2 - Urgent
Response time: 2 Hours*
Major functionality is impacted or significant performance degradation is experienced. Issue is persistent and affects many users and/or major functionality. No reasonable workaround available.
Also includes time-sensitive requests such as requests for feature activation or a data export.
Level 3 - High
Response time: 4 Hours**
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System performance issue or bug affecting some but not all users. Short-term workaround is available, but not scalable.
Level 4 - Medium
Response time: 8 Hours**
Inquiry regarding a routine technical issue; information requested on application capabilities, navigation, installation or configuration; bug affecting a small number of users. Reasonable workaround available. Resolution required as soon as reasonably practicable. *24/7 Severity 1 and 2 coverage includes weekends and holidays **Severity 3 and 4 target response times include local business hours only and exclude weekends and holidaysOverview of Support Escalation PathAn issue is received by Tier 1 Support Rep who will document details and attempt to resolve. In the event that the problem cannot be resolved at this level, case will be escalated to a Tier 2 Support Rep for further analysis. Occasionally, a Case may be received for which technical understanding or indicated fix exceeds the responsibility of Support. These issues are quickly brought to the attention of R&D through the Tier 3/QA channel.
Throughout the lifecycle of the case, customer will receive regular updates from the case owner at regular intervals based on case severity. Customers can work with their Support Account Specialist (SAS) if assigned through the purchase of Premier Support as a point of escalation should the need arise.
Step-by-step escalation path:
•Case is logged via Help Portal, Phone or through Live Chat •Depending on the functional area of the case a Tier 1 Support Rep from the appropriate skill group responds to the user confirming that the issue has been received and is in process. •Tier 1 analyzes the issue from the perspective of customer provided information in the case. •Tier 1 makes contact (phone or email) with the customer and gathers more information including any access needed to reproduce the problem.
•With all necessary information gathered, Tier 1 will attempt to resolve the issue with the customer. •When resolution cannot be immediately achieved, Tier 1 Support Rep will escalate to a Tier 2 Support Rep in the same skill group. Tier 2 Support Rep will take all steps necessary to reproduce, understand and resolve the issue.
•Technical Issues that cannot be resolved by the Tier 2 Support Rep are escalated to Tier 3. This escalation will provide a deeper layer of analysis with the possibility of escalation to QA/Development for Application issues and Escalation to Operation Services for Infrastructure issues as needed.
•Functional Issues that cannot be resolved by Tier 3 are escalated to Product Management. •If it is an application Issue, necessary Development work will be performed, tested and a patch created.
•Issue Fix Submitted to Operations for Infrastructure issues. •Issue Fix deployed.
•Tier 2 Support Rep confirms success of Bug Fix in addressing the problem. •Tier 2 Support Rep contacts customer and confirms that the issue is Resolved. •Case is closed"
ServiceNow Customer Support is provided by ServiceNow 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including all holidays. Customer may contact ServiceNow using one of the following means:
•Support Portal at https://hi.service-now.com/. Customer may get login access to this self-service portal by contacting its ServiceNow administrator.
•Phone using one of the numbers at http://www.servicenow.com/support/contact-support.html.
Customer shall contact ServiceNow’s authorized reseller in accordance with its agreement with the reseller.
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See the “Customer Support Policy” contained within the “Subscription Service Guide” included with this response for more information.
Docusign Enterprise Premier support provides 24x7 Live Phone Support.
QTS Dedicated support staff is available 24x7x365 to generate and track incidents to resolution QTS Customer Portal provides round-the clock visibility into your environment VMware Global Support Services
FireEye FireEye offers 24/7 technical support and its technical support centers around the globe in a follow-the-sun model.
•Milpitas, CA, USA (UTC -7 hours)
•Reston, VA, USA (UTC -4 hours)
•Dublin, Ireland (UTC)
•Singapore (UTC +8 hours)
•Sydney, Australia (UTC +10 hours)
FireEye Support is available via telephone, email, live chat, and web.
Phone: U.S: +1 877-347-3393 (877 FIREEYE)
Email: [email protected]
Web Support: https://www.fireeye.com/support/get-support.html Support Programs: https://www.fireeye.com/support/support-programs.html VirtueStream Virtustream will work collaboratively with State of Utah to develop / maintain a relationship structure that leads to quick resolution, regularly scheduled status meetings, and quarterly business reviews.
Virtustream will assign multiple key personnel to State of Utah including an Executive level sponsor. The primary point of contact will be Virtustream’s Technical Account Manager (TAM).
The TAM is responsible for daily activities/interaction and understanding/ensuring State of Utah’s objectives are met at a minimum. Optimizations and other improvements to processes/standard operating procedures are delivered by the TAM in coordination with other Virtustream staff working behind the scenes. The TAM will coordinate day-to-day operation, service level management and SL reporting.
The following outlines Virtustream’s approach to service desk escalation and issue resolution.
Escalations within Virtustream
Virtustream will provide Level 0 and Level I support and first call resolution where possible, as determined by Virtustream. Where first call resolution is not possible, the Virtustream Service Desk provides incident management for Incidents and Urgent Service Requests escalated to Level II and Level III resources as defined below.
In the event that Virtustream’s Response to an Incident is not acceptable to the Customer, Customer can contact the Virtustream Service Desk and request escalation to the head of the Service Desk. Virtustream shall, upon receipt of any such request, immediately escalate the issue to the head of the Service Desk or technical team as appropriate.
Service Request Prioritization
Service Requests are assigned a priority of either ‘Urgent’ or ‘Standard’ and are queued for fulfillment with the corresponding priority. All Service Requests will be reviewed by the Virtustream Service Desk, who will determine the appropriate priority to assign with collaboration of Customer.
Incident Prioritization
All Incidents that are reported to the Virtustream Service Desk, or that Virtustream otherwise becomes aware of, will be initially assigned a priority by the Virtustream Service Desk as set forth below. Internal escalation for Incidents to Level II and Level III resources are based on the priority level assigned to the Incident.
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Philippines and Debrecen, Hungary locations. We are prepared to assist with technical, functional or administrative questions about the Fieldglass application.
Hanna Customer key users have several options to communicate incidents into SAP Managed Cloud Delivery.
Primary entry point:
The best and easiest way to get an incident resolved is by creating and sending incidents directly to SAP Managed Cloud Delivery Service Teams via the SAP Support Portal. This communication channel ensures that all support teams are notified and therefore is the most preferred way to contact SAP on support/service related issues.
Alternative option to the primary entry point:
Customer key user can also communicate incidents by telephone via the SAP Customer Interaction Center (CIC) (e.g. in case of facing challenges in submitting an incident via the SAP Support Portal).
Exceptional option:
During business hours, customer key user may also communicate urgent incidents by contacting designated SAP Managed Cloud Delivery service contacts like Customer Engagement Service Manager (CESM) to create an incident on behalf of the customer. However – as already mentioned - this is not the preferred way of communication, but only should be applied in exceptional cases.
Support times are contractually agreed upon with each individual customer organization.
The SAP Managed Cloud Delivery (MCD) Service Desk and the Service Teams are spread across Europe, Americas and Asia.As a result of the global set-up across several time zones, SAP MCD Service Desk is able to provide worldwide 24/7 support to customers, throughout the entire year and according to the “Follow-The-Sun-Principle”.
Hybris Key service levels are delivered through service level objectives, which provide for uptime of 99.9 for the hosted environment. Furthermore, monitoring is in place to report and alert upon uptime and response times of the environment to ensure best possible performance.
The following support is specifically for the SAP Hybris Commerce, Cloud Edition.
Customers can contact SAP Hybris Commerce, Cloud Edition technical support by toll-free telephone number or e-mail 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Based on the priority level, SAP Hybris’s support personnel will attempt to provide Customer with remote assistance for reported issues.
Contact information for technical support is as follows:
Toll-Free Telephone Number: 888-944-2664 ext 6
In the event that Customer contacts SAP Hybris support, SAP Hybris shall respond to such reports as follows:
Priority Level :
Characteristics
Response Time
Resolution Time Objective
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Priority Level 1
Fatal Issue: Problem causing the Customer Website to cease from operating.
This situation is generally described as a total failure. 25 Minutes
(7x24)
2 hours
Priority Level 2
Major Issue: Problem causing the Customer Website to experience major problems with it ability to operate. This situation exists when the Customer Website is partially failing however it is still able to function. 25 minutes
(7x24)
12 hours
Priority Level 3
Degradation of Performance: Problem affecting only certain non-critical functions of the Customer Website. This situation is occurring when the Customer Website is usable but has certain limited functions. 2 hours
1 business day
Priority Level 4
Minor Issue: This situation includes all other non-critical problems. It is present when the Customer Website is usable however the problem results in a minor issue affecting it.
2 hours
3 business days
Upon receipt of a service call classifying the priority level, SAP Hybris will deploy commercially reasonable efforts to respond and assist in the resolution of the problem.
Application support for code developed by Customer or its implementation partner will be provided by Customer or Customer’s implementation partner.
If SAP hybris provides SAP Hybris Commerce, Cloud Edition support to a Customer as requested by Customer, and it is subsequently revealed that SAP Hybris was not responsible for the problem or the problem was not classified correctly by the customer, Customer will pay SAP Hybris on a time and materials basis for such support and assistance.
SuccessFactors
VMware Our Availability Commitment for VMware AirWatch is 99.9%. The SLAs are subject to the terms of the applicable Terms of Service for VMware AirWatch.
If the Availability of a class of service that you purchase is less than the associated Availability Commitment, then you may request Service Credits for that affected class of service. Availability in a given month is calculated according to the following formula:
“Availability” = ((total minutes in a calendar month – total minutes Unavailable) / total minutes in a calendar month) x 100
A class of service will be considered “Unavailable,” subject to the Service Level Agreement Limitations set forth below, if VMware’s monitoring tools determine one of the following events has occurred (“SLA Event”). The total minutes that a class of service is Unavailable for a particular SLA Event is measured from the time that VMware validates the SLA Event has occurred, as defined below, until the time that VMware resolves the SLA Event such that the Service Offering is Available to you. If two or more SLA Event occurs simultaneously, the SLA Event with the longest duration will be used to determine the total minutes Unavailable.
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1. Each of the following will be considered an SLA Event for the Dedicated Cloud, Virtual Private Cloud, or Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand Services:
a) Any of the network interfaces of the Service Offering Network are unavailable for more than three (3) consecutive minutes. The “Service Offering Network” means the network that extends from the network interfaces of physical host servers for a class of service to the outside network interfaces providing the Service Offering's public internet connectivity. b) The data store(s) associated with your block level storage for a class of service are unavailable for more than three (3) consecutive minutes.
c) The self-service console, available at https://vchs.vmware.com, cannot successfully authenticate a simulated user for more than five (5) consecutive minutes. d) Your running virtual machines for a class of service become inaccessible for more than five (5) consecutive minutes due to physical host server failures.
2. Each of the following will be considered an SLA Event for the Data Protection Service:
a) The backup storage repository associated with your Data Protection service is unavailable for more than three (3) consecutive minutes.
b) The start time associated with your backup scheduling window is missed for longer than thirty (30) consecutive minutes.
c) The standard 24-hour recovery point objective (RPO) is missed for any virtual machines actively enrolled in the service.
d) Any restore operation for a virtual machine fails to complete due to backup infrastructure failures.
3. Each of the following will be considered an SLA Event for the Disaster Recovery Service:
a) Any of the network interfaces of the Service Offering Network are unavailable for more than three (3) consecutive minutes.
b) The data store(s) associated with your block level storage for replication is unavailable for more than three (3) consecutive minutes.
c) The self-service console, available at https://vchs.vmware.com, cannot successfully authenticate a simulated user for more than five (5) consecutive minutes. d) Your failed-over virtual machines for a class of service become inaccessible for more than five (5) consecutive minutes due to physical host server failures. e) Any built-in service functions for failover testing, planned migration, or live failover and recovery result in virtual machine replicas not powering on in less than 4 consecutive hours from the time a request is acknowledged and approved by VMware.
4. The following will be considered an SLA Event for the Object Storage service:
a) A more than five (5) percent Error Rate for more than ten (10) consecutive minutes – where “Error Rate” means the number of valid requests that result in a response with HTTP Status 500 and Code “Internal Error” divided by the total number of valid requests during each five-minute period.
FireEye FireEye shall use commercially reasonable efforts to correct any reproducible programming error in the Software attributable to FireEye, employing a level of effort commensurate with the severity of the error, provided, however, that FireEye shall have no obligation to correct all errors in the Software.
8.12.5 Describe the firm’s procedures and schedules for any planned downtime.
CA APM Planned downtime is scheduled, and customers are notified MAA Customers are notified at least two weeks in advance for planned downtime.
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advance notice was not provided to customers, will be counted against the up-time SLA.
ASM Customers are notified at least two weeks in advance for planned downtime.
Google Google's maintenance routines are done in a manner that ensures there is no need to schedule any downtime.
AODocs AODocs's maintenance routines are done in a manner that ensures there is no need to schedule any downtime.
Salesforce There are two types of maintenance at Salesforce: System Maintenance and Release Maintenance. System Maintenance is for sustaining the performance, reliability, security, and stability of the infrastructure supporting our services. When maintenance is scheduled, the specific timing and availability to be expected during that time will be communicated to all customers approximately one week in advance of the maintenance window upon login to Salesforce and via a posting to http://trust.salesforce.com/trust/maintenance. In the event of planned maintenance where the services will be unavailable for more than four hours, or that requires customer action in advance, Salesforce endeavors to communicate via email several months in advance. Please Note: If emergency system maintenance is required, customers may be notified less than one (1) week in advance.
Major Release Maintenance is for upgrading the services to the latest product version to deliver enhanced features and functionality. Major release dates and times are posted on http://trust.salesforce.com/trust/maintenance approximately one month before release to Sandbox instances. An email notification and blog post regarding Sandbox preview instructions is also sent approximately one month prior to upgrading Sandbox instances. Email notification of major release dates is sent one month prior to upgrading non-Sandbox instances. The Release Notes document describing the new features and functionality is posted in Help & Training one month prior to upgrading non-Sandbox instances. Final release reminders are communicated to all customers approximately one week prior via email and upon logging into Salesforce.
Major release maintenance occurs three times per year. The instance will be unavailable for up to five minutes during the release window.
Patch Releases and Emergency Releases are used to deliver scheduled and ad hoc application fixes. Patch releases are scheduled weekly and are usually deployed to instances on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, with release to Asia-Pacific instances the following day. Emergency releases are conducted on an as-needed basis and can occur any day of the week. Whenever possible, patches and emergency releases are deployed during off-peak hours and without downtime.
ServiceNow ServiceNow notifies customers at least 10 days prior to scheduled maintenance for infrastructure network, hardware or software that might impact service. ServiceNow targets no more than two hours of downtime due to scheduled maintenance per month.
Docusign Continuous availability is a necessity for mission-critical business applications in a global world.
It’s also a key component of the xDTM standard. Zero maintenance downtime means that DocuSign is always available, regardless of the time-of-year, day-of-week, time zone or country.
DocuSign’s Carrier Grade System Architecture, a first in SaaS, eliminates maintenance downtime, and ensures the highest level of performance resiliency and data integrity. This is accomplished through a combination of advanced high availability architecture, native DocuSign engineering, and both specialized and commodity hardware and software components.
SAP Ariba Scheduled downtime windows for maintenance, upgrades or new releases are provided in the Service Level Agreement. Our uptime percentage takes scheduled maintenance into account.
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Fieldglass Fieldglass' maintenance windows are as follows:
• Friday maintenance window of 11:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m. Central (Daylight Savings Observed)
• Extended maintenance windows are taken with five days advance notice and are typically as follows:
- Second Friday of each of the following months: March, July, and November - Critical service packs, security issues, and other emergencies will still be taken if needed with communication as reasonable
Hanna SAP performs periodic scheduled maintenance activities to maintain security patching levels, application transports, fixes, network maintenance, and other scheduled proactive activities during scheduled maintenance window (agreed to by the customer). The predefined maintenance window is 4 hours per month (for example first friday of every month)
SAP may perform additional maintenance services on the Customer’s Computing Environment in agreement with Customer, with at least ten (10) Business Days prior notice (which notice may be by email to Customer’s nominated contact or posting) of the date and anticipated length of the maintenance window, and provided that SAP adheres to Customer’s reasonable requirements as to the timing and duration of any such maintenance.
SAP reserves the right to apply critical application and operating system security patches in compliance with the SAP Global Security Team’s reasonable recommendations. SAP will use reasonable endeavours to provide Customer with forty-eight (48) hours advance notice regarding the critical patch deployment unless a shorter notice period is required in order to address a critical security issue. Non critical security issues shall be dealt with by Scheduled Maintenance
Hybris Typically they are two-hour maintenance windows, with no downtime or on occasion maintenance periods require between 2 to 10 minutes of downtime.
Other rare periods which may require further maintenance could have downtime between 30 min to 4 hours.
SuccessFactors To address issues such as security patches, hot fixes, updates, equipment upgrades, etc., we has established maintenance windows to perform scheduled maintenance. Scheduled maintenance events typically occur during only one of these windows, roughly every 6-8 weeks. A 14-hour/week window will be used for all critical / most emergency patches and all bug fixes (will include tech stack and application patch sets).
We define scheduled downtime maintenance windows as:
Midnight to 7 a.m. Fri-Sat local time + midnight to 7 a.m. Sat-Sun local time (dependent upon the data center where the customer data is hosted) We will provide customers with at least a 2 days’ notice if a larger maintenance window is needed. Typically, for HCM / LMS products, customers receive a 3-5 day notification (via popup on login). When the system is not available during the maintenance there is a notification page displayed for the outage timing.
We plan maintenance events conservatively, and use them sparingly.
VMware VMware IaaS Services
Customers are notified in advance of any expected downtime with vCloud Air services. In the event of an unexpected outages or disruption to the service, customers will be notified via their preferred contact means as soon as possible as per the terms outlined in the Service Level Agreement.
VMWare AirWatch
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We maintain standard SLAs with our customers to provide for downtime • SLAs are defined within the AirWatch Hosted Services Policy Per our Hosted Services Policy, we provide outage credits in the event of a service interruption:
• ""AirWatch warrants it will provide Availability of the Hosted Services 99.9% of the calendar month (the “Service Level”). To the extent that the Hosted Services fail to conform to the Service Level, Customer may request service credits (“Outage Credits”) as provided herein. A failure or lack of Availability for any period of time of at least one minute during which Customer is unable to utilize the Hosted Services due to AirWatch’s failure to provide Customer with the specified services constitutes an “Outage”. All Outage measurements will be rounded up or down to the nearest one minute increment, with increments equal to or greater than 30 seconds being rounded up to the next minute. Outage Credits are based on cumulative periods of Outage over a calendar month. Final determinations of the length of the cumulative periods of Outage over a calendar month shall be based on AirWatch’s internal monitoring equipment and records. Outage Credits will be taken against only the Hosted Service fees for the month in which the Outage occurred."" FireEye FireEye undertakes reasonable efforts to ensure that the service availability maintains a minimum of 99.9% availability. However there are circumstances where the system will be down due to the following:
a) “Scheduled Maintenance Period" is the period during which weekly scheduled maintenance may be performed, or a maintenance window otherwise mutually agreed upon by FireEye and Customer. Customers receive notification and announcements for any scheduled maintenance period.
b)"Emergency Maintenance" means any time outside of Scheduled Maintenance that FireEye is required to apply critical patches or fixes or undertake other urgent maintenance. If Emergency Maintenance is required, FireEye will contact Customer and provide the expected time frame of the Emergency Maintenance.
VirtueStream Virtustream planned downtimes start with the weekly change board meeting by the Platform Operations group. All requested changes whether requested by customers or by the operations staff are reviewed, if approved then scheduled. Depending on the nature of the change, routine and planned, the affected customers are notified as early as possible and adjusted based on customer needs. For example, if the scheduled downtime falls on a weekend that a customer plans to do their quarterly close, Virtustream will reschedule. An emergency/urgent change may have less notice for the customers. But in all cases, customers will be notified of the upcoming downtime multiple times, start of the downtime will be specified and the expected duration. Once the downtime is complete, another notification will go out to the affected
8.12.6 Describe the consequences/SLA remedies if disaster recovery metrics are not met.
CA APM In the event that the Service Level Availability committed decreases below the Threshold for Service Availability Default, Minor or Major, Customer may be entitled to take action as outlined in contract. Defined, monetary penalties are provided in the SaaS Listing document.
MAA Defined monetary penalties are provided in the SaaS Listing document CA Agile See 8.12.4
ASM Defined, monetary penalties are provided in the SaaS Listing document Google Customers will be eligible to receive a service credit.
AODocs Customers will be eligible to receive a service credit.
Salesforce Customer data, up to the last committed transaction, is replicated to disk in near-real time at the designated disaster recovery data center, and backed up at the primary data center. Backups are performed daily at primary data center facility without stopping access to the application.
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For business continuity purposes, Salesforce supports disaster recovery with a dedicated team and a 4 hour recovery point objective (RPO) and 12 hour recovery time objective (RTO).
Additional details can be provided with the execution of an NDA between Salesforce and your Agency.
In terms of remedies, the Salesforce Service Terms incorporated as part of the End User Licensing Agreement indicate the following regarding Termination allowing customers to terminate the contract at time of renewal:
""User subscriptions will automatically renew for additional periods of one (1) year at the list price in effect at the time of renewal unless You give Your Reseller notice of termination at least 30 days prior to the end of the relevant subscription term.""
ServiceNow See 8.12.2 for the Availability SLA.
Docusign See 8.12.4.
SAP Ariba Please see the details provided in 8.12.4 response.
Fieldglass Please see the answer to Question 8.12.4, above.
Hanna Penalties and remediation for SLA violations are detailed in the Statement of Work.
Hybris Our SLA provides tenant remuneration for losses they may incur due to outages within the infrastructure.
VMware For VMware there is a service credit reimbursement structure outlined above. We have detailed recovery procedures that include defined steps, roles and responsibilities and accountable personnel to help ensure streamlined disaster recovery.
As conversations progress, AirWatch can provide specific details regarding our disaster recovery timelines and strategies.
FireEye FireEye has established formal Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plan, as well as Incident Response and Recovery Plans to help maximize availability of critical customer-impacting services.
8.12.7 Provide a sample of performance reports and specify if they are available over the Web and if they are real-time statistics or batch statistics.
CA APM A report of the Service’s measured monthly SLA is available to Customer upon request
MAA Reports are generated periodically and ad hoc. Customers can use their support.ca.com credentials to access private trust site which contains SLA details for the subscribed service.
CA Agile Realtime and historical system status can be viewed at https://status.rallydev.com ASM Reports are generated periodically and ad hoc.
Google Google does not produce customer specific performance reports. The web based Apps Status Dashboard displays real time System Availability Details. Customers can works with their Google reseller to design a reporting system using Google Sheets based on which incident actually impacts their end users. Service availability issues are isolated to specific applications and specific geographically locations and thus would not impact all of your users or your account at all.
AODocs AODocs does not produce customer specific performance reports. Customers can visit the AODocs status page: status.aodocs.com. AODocs provides a set a usage reports and AODocs team can also work with the customer to build specific reports Virtru We have realtime monitoring of both server side operations and client side interactions.
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providing daily service-quality data on a public website (http://trust.salesforce.com), Salesforce proves that it is a leader in availability. And by making its track record completely transparent, salesforce.com proves it is worthy of customers’ trust.
A few metrics that we maintain (and publish publicly via our trust.salesforce.com website) are:
-Daily Transaction Counts
-Daily Transaction Speeds
Salesforce is hitting almost 4 billion transactions a day. These transactions are a mix of user interacting with the system and API calls where other systems are bi-directionally interacting with Salesforce.
Our Average Transaction Time hovers between 150 and low 200 milliseconds.
Some additional published metrics are uptime & availability, planned maintenance windows, and any performance degradation.
The Purchasing Entity can view all of this information and more by going to trust.salesforce.com.
Customers can also log a case to request system uptime reports for the last 6 months and last 12 months, however, system reports are not automatically distributed.
ServiceNow Administrators can view a wide range of performance metrics for their instance and for the machine on which the instance is running, displayed in a graphical format.
Add these graphs and their controls to a home page to monitor the performance of instances.
Some of these graphs are intended for use by ServiceNow Technical Support to troubleshoot performance issues or help tune your system for maximum efficiency. Each graph enables admins to filter the data by using different measurements, such as maximum and minimum values, means, and medians. The available graphs reflect performance in eight functional areas of ServiceNow. •Database
•Discovery
•Disk Partitions
•Linux Stats
•Logging
•MySQL Overview
•Node Metrics
•Replication
•ServiceNow Servlet
Docusign For real-time data, please visit the DocuSign Trust site (trust.docusign.com) for additional information.
SAP Ariba We provide a monthly report to customers describing the system availability percentage. Depending on the cloud service, these reports are made available either by email, through the cloud service or through an online portal.
Fieldglass Fieldglass executes comprehensive performance testing prior to each release to production. Performance testing is executed in accordance with the Fieldglass Performance Testing Standards document. Types of testing performed include regression, load, stress, and endurance. Results are reviewed and approved by senior members of development, QA, IT, and the Chief Architect. Our standards document can be shared upon request while under NDA.
During peak periods, Fieldglass will see 12,000 concurrent users with page response times averaging 400-700ms. Across all of 2015, we have a 99.4% success rate in meeting or exceeding all monthly customer SLAs for page response times.
Hanna Performance reports on HEC are available to the customer via the SAP One Portal page. It provides the customer among other things: operational info about systems being managed, incident management, security management, user specific settings, planned downtime, etc.
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SuccessFactors Customers can view hosting performance and availability information real-time at the following link: https://support.successfactors.com/Service_Status.
VMware VMware IaaS Services
VMware vCloud Air provides Web-based capacity reporting via the MyVMware portal. For detailed performance reporting, participating entities may wish to acquire VMware vRealize Operations suite, which is a non-Web based software product which provides real-time and historic performance statistics for vCloud Air.
VMWare AirWatch
We can provide sample performance testing documents that validate our ability to handle anticipated workload under real-world conditions as conversations progress.
We have a dedicated team for scalability and performance testing. They work with both internal teams and customers to conduct testing.
FireEye This is not applicable as each of the FireEye offerings are classified as SaaS. The performance of the FireEye cloud environments are continuously monitored and managed by the cloud service operations (CSO) team to ensure secure operation and availability.
VirtueStream Service Levels will be calculated and measured monthly by Virtustream on a calendar month basis and reported each month for the previous month. The reports will be provided to Customer by the tenth (10th) working day of the month following that to which such report relates, commencing on the second (2nd) month following the Service Start Date and each month thereafter. The monthly service level report will contain at least the following items: (i) Uptime statistics for the month concerned; (ii) an analysis of reported incidents over the previous month, broken down by type for discussion; (iii) action plans for items giving rise to concern; (iv) comments and observations on any issues arising from Virtustream’s performance monitoring activities; (v) recommendations on service delivery strategies to maintain or enhance the service level; and (vi) review of general business requirements (“Service Level Report”). Cloud Platform Services (CPS) has its own specific service levels as described in this document. Cloud Cover Services (CCS) has service levels that pertain to the CCS offerings and are reported separately. Not all Virtustream customers have CCS but all Virtustream customers use CPS.
8.12.8 Ability to print historical, statistical, and usage reports locally.
CA APM A report of the Service’s measured monthly SLA is available to Customer upon request
MAA Same as above.
CA Agile This is available upon request.
ASM Customers are sent monthly SLA reports.
Google See 8.12.7
AODocs See 8.12.7
Virtru We may be able to publish reports locally for customers.
Salesforce Trust.salesforce.com is the Salesforce community’s home for real-time information on system performance and security. On this site you'll find:
● Live and historical data on system performance
● Up-to-the minute information on planned maintenance
● Phishing, malicious software, and social engineering threats ● Best security practices for your organization
● Information on how we safeguard your data
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In addition to the Salesforce Trust site (http://trust.salesforce.com/trust/status) to monitor uptime and performance, your Agency will also have access to a System Overview, which will help you monitor performance and usage of your own Salesforce org. This overview includes:
Schema - # and % of custom objects and data storage
Business Logic - # and % of Rules, Apex triggers and classes, as well as % of code used License Usage
API Usage - # and % of requests in the last 24 hours
User Interface - # and % of custom apps, sites, flows, custom tabs and pages Portal Usage
The above list is of all the possible metrics that you may have in your system overview.
ServiceNow Yes. Instance performance can be viewed locally.
Customers can use the Customer Support Portal to obtain information about the real availability of all their instances. Real availability is the percentage of production time that an instance is up and available for use.
Docusign Yes. DocuSign offers a number of pre-defined reports to provide detail and summary information on DocuSign usage in the account, such as by Envelope, Recipients, Velocity of signing, and User Access among many other reports. Users can modify report criteria such as data ranges and reports can be scheduled to execute. All reports can be downloaded or Printed locally.
QTS Yes
SAP Ariba User access is browser-based, so printing is enabled via the printers that are setup on the user's workstation. There are several “Print” buttons throughout the applications that will open an additional browser window with a printerfriendly format of the screen.
Fieldglass Any user with the correct permissions in the system, as specified by the State of Utah, may locally print historical, statistical, and usage reports.
Hanna Yes, available
VMware VMware IaaS Services
At the present time, VMware does not provide end user customers with specific reports for SLA performance. VMware tracks the overall health of the environment and will report to customers in the event of an outage. However, specific SLA performance is not delivered as a report, but as an alert. It is currently the customer’s responsibility to track downtime within their environments and report to VMware when they believe SLA has been violated.
VMWare AirWatch
Customers can export and print solution data using interactive dashboards (CSV), reports (PDF, XLS, and CSV), the AirWatch Hub (PDF), and event log (CSV) FireEye Each of the offerings in this response have reporting capabilities local to the system and users with the appropriate access rights.
8.12.9 Offeror must describe whether or not its on-demand deployment is supported 24x365.
CA N/A. CA only offers SaaS solutions and manages all aspects of the service. Clients do not have direct access to the environment.
Google Purchasing entities will subscribe to an initial set of user licenses and can provision new user accounts at their convenience within that range of licenses.
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or other infrastructure hardware and software necessary. The service is always available and the customer can deploy 24x365 at their own pace.
ServiceNow ServiceNow is supported 24x365.
FireEye The FireEye offerings in this response are SaaS service models. Once the application or service is set up there are no further deployment steps necessary. On-demand Self-service options referenced in section 8.1.2.1 are available 24x365.
VirtueStream Virtustream’s self-service portal allows authorized users to deploy resources on-demand 24x365.
8.12.10 Offeror must describe its scale-up and scale-down, and whether it is available 24x365.
CA N/A. CA only offers SaaS solutions and manages all aspects of the service; monitoring and capacity planning is included as part of the service.
Google Purchasing entities will subscribe to an initial set of user licenses and can provision new user accounts at their convenience within that range of licenses. If the purchasing entity has exceeded or is about to exceed their user count they can place an order for additional licenses at any time.
Scale-down procedures will be handled on the renewal anniversary.
Salesforce The Salesforce cloud based architecture will allow the State to deploy Salesforce solutions rapidly and scale at will for future needs. Customer’s may scale up and add licenses at any point during their annual contract cycle. User counts are examined on an annual basis at time of renewal to ensure the customer had adequate license coverage.
ServiceNow ServiceNow can automatically scale its application servers horizontally by adding or subtracting them to the load balancer pools for a particular instance. Scaling is managed by the ServiceNow Cloud Operations team.
FireEye The FireEye offerings in this response are SaaS service models. FireEye cloud environments are continuously monitored by cloud service operations (CSO) personnel to help ensure optimal resources are allocated to the system 24x365.
VirtueStream Virtustream’s self-service portal allows authorized users to deploy or de-commission resources ondemand 24x365.
8.13 Cloud Security Alliance
Describe your level of disclosure with CSA Star Registry for each Solution offered. a. Completion of a CSA STAR Self-Assessment, as described in Section 5.5.3. b. Completion of Exhibits 1 and 2 to Attachment B.
c. Completion of a CSA STAR Attestation, Certification, or Assessment. d. Completion CSA STAR Continuous Monitoring.
Carahsoft is proposing a number of Service Providers that are members of the Cloud Security Alliance. For example Salesforce is a corporate member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and contributes to their research and initiatives in a variety of ways. Salesforce has completed the CSA Consensus Assessments Initiative questionnaire (CAIQ), which maps to the CSA Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) for the Salesforce Services, including Force.com, Analytics Cloud, Communities, Chatter, Sales Cloud and Service Cloud. A copy of the current completed CSA CAIQ can be provided to prospects or customers under NDA upon request.
8.14 Service Provisioning
8.14. 1 Describe in detail how your firm processes emergency or rush services implementation requests by a Purchasing Entity.
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CA APM CA SaaS Ops has a rigorous service introduction and update process that is governed by a central body to ensure adherence. Every step in the process is recorded, tracked and approved.
MAA Standard lead times for requests can be waived for requests that have a critical business need
CA Agile Standard lead times for requests can be waived for requests that have a critical business need such as a data recovery effort
ASM Standard lead times for requests can be waived for requests that have a critical business need such as a data recovery effort
Google Order processing from the time a valid Purchase Order is submitted has a normal turn around time of three business days. Google's sales team can be contacted to expedite orders when needed.
AODocs Order processing from the time a valid Purchase Order is submitted has a normal turn around time of two business days. AODocs's sales team can be contacted to expedite orders when needed.
Virtru Requests are triaged by the support and if an emergency is identified, the request is escalated by the VP of Product who immediatlye assigns the issue as a top priority to a developer. Once completed a hotfix is pushed to production.
Salesforce Subscription-based, On-Demand Service
Salesforce offers on-demand Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS).
The Salesforce PaaS and SaaS offerings are subscription based and in a per user/month or user/year format billed annually with some of our products offered as total logins per month or by defined number of members billed annually.
Multi-tenancy gives applications elasticity. Force.com applications can automatically scale from one to tens of thousands of users. Processing more than three billion transactions each day, Force.com is used for large-scale deployments. Any application that runs on Force.com is automatically architected to seamlessly scale from 1 user to 100,000 users without the customer having to do anything differently.
All applications (includes mobile, offline and read-only options) and data running on Force.com are deployed to and replicated across multiple data centers in different geographies. Every application, no matter how large or small, gets the full benefits of the backup, failover, disaster recovery, and other infrastructure services required for an organization’s mission-critical applications.
ServiceNow ServiceNow professional services organization responds to customer needs based on each request. Once a purchase order is received from the Purchasing Entity, ServiceNow contacts the Customer to discuss schedules. Resources are assigned based on the project need. If the customer has a priority issue with the system, they would open a ticket and the ticket SLA process would proceed until the issue is resolved. Every ServiceNow customer is supported based on their priority and need.
SAP Hanna Rush or emergency infra provisioning can be request in exceptional situations and would be addressed on best effort priorty basis.
VMware VMware IaaS Services
Initial Order
- Expedite the purchasing process thro
- In the event that an emergency or rush service implementation request is received, VMware’s NASPO program manager will coordinate an expedited response depending on the request. - Expedited Procurement - The Program Manager will directly interface with each company in the supply chain to ensure that the order is processed immediately upon receipt by each party. - Expedited In
Increased capacity
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VMWare AirWatch
Participating Agencies will work with thier dedicated Account Executive to procure addition services for thier AirWatch implementations. Customers can implement and update configurations through the AirWatch administrative console. Additionally, customers can submit ASK tickets for any solution issues that will be tracked through completion.
FireEye FireEye will make every reasonable effort to accommodate rush provisioning requests. The purchasing entity should contact their sales account team who will interface directly with the corresponding implementation team to coordinate an expedited implementation.
8.14.2 Describe in detail the standard lead-time for provisioning your Solutions.
CA APM 48 hour turnaround is typically required
MAA Services do not generally require client action for provisioning. General service catalog requests have a standard 48 hour lead time
CA Agile Services do not generally require client action for provisioning. General service catalog requests, such as a data refresh, have a standard 48 hour lead time ASM Services do not generally require client action for provisioning. General service requests have a standard 48 hour lead time
Google Standard lead time is three business days.
AODocs Standard lead time is two business days.
Virtru The Lead-time for provisioning is no more than 15 minutes ServiceNow ServiceNow provisions new instances or newly purchased users or applications to the instance within 48 hours after receipt of order. If users or applications are required more quickly, the customer controls access to all ServiceNOw capabilities at any time and the true-up occurs thereafter.
Docusign DocuSign is intuitive and easy-to-use. Getting started with our cloud solution, standard console, can be implemented in a day. Adding integrations or API's will add to the complexity of the implementation, but our Professional Services are there to guide you every step of the way.
VMware VMware vCloud Air Services
VMware vCloud Air OnDemand services can be purchased and provisioned in minutes via the vCloud Air self service portal. VMware vCloud Air services other than OnDemand are purchased via purchase order. Purchase orders are typically processed on the day of order. Once services have been purchased the user can immediately begin provisioning services from the self service portal. These services are available within minutes of launch.
VMware vCloud Government Services
VMware vCloud Government Services are purchased via purchase order. Purchase orders are typically processed on the day of order. New environments require an RSA token that is overnighted for 2 factor authentication. Once the user has their RSA token they can begin to provision IaaS Services.
VMWare AirWatch
AirWatch is committed to implementing the solution in a timely manner and we work closely with customers to meet internal deadlines.
Delivery and deployment models will vary depending the hosting model selected by the customer:
• SaaS deployments can be implemented within several days and some within a few hours • Large enterprise deployments with numerous integration endpoints may require additional time Once an order is placed, we immediately begin working with the customer to finalize terms and conditions in a mutually agreeable manner and begin the implementation process.
We schedule regular check-ins for project status updates and to discuss any questions or concerns.
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FireEye FireEye anticipates that the standard lead-time is expected to take no more than five (5) business days. However, FireEye is willing to accommodate an urgent request from NASPO in order to provide adequate service to the participating states.
VirtueStream Virtustream’s standard lead-time for provisioning can vary based of the type of deployment and requirement. Resources can be deployed on-demand basis by State of Utah. For the initial services, there is a standard which is maintained as best practice.
At project kick-off, Virtustream and State of Utah will develop a detailed Implementation Plan, on a system-by-system, week-by-week basis, to ensure that both sides of the relationship have clear expectations on what is to be accomplished, by whom, and in what timeframe. Upon completion of the Implementation Plan, Virtustream and State of Utah will establish a Project Governance Plan and the Project Governance Plan will manage Implementation Plan and ensure alignment at all tiers of the organization, define expectations for status update frequency and formats, and establish an escalation path for issue identification and resolution.
Virtustream offers a dedicated onboarding project team that is charged with migrating clients into the xStream® cloud. This chargeable service includes resources from our platform and SAP teams and development of an onboarding project plan with milestones and deliverables.
Virtustream uses a mature methodology to move clients onto our cloud platform, a process which is continuously refined and improved. A link is established to the client site using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) or Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) circuit, for customer access and testing of migrated systems. Prerequisites are put into place (domain controllers, backup systems, infrastructure, networking, etc.) prior to systems being onboarded, in a defined sequence.
Virtustream SAP basis team members test the systems before turning them over to Ascend for validation. Once on the xStream® platform, Virtustream monitors, backups and maintains the systems. As a component of the Virtustream platform, all core units are replicated to an alternate data center to provide disaster-recovery capability.
Figure 3. Sample Work Plan
8.15 Back Up and Disaster Plan
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8.15.1 Ability to apply legal retention periods and disposition by agency per purchasing entity policy and/or legal requirements.
CA APM Not currently available.
MAA Not Available.
CA Agile The customer is responsible for the lifecycle of their data. We will retain all data until it has been deleted from our systems. We can remove data from our systems upon written request from the customer at termination of the contract.
ASM Not available.
Salesforce Salesforce customers are responsible for complying with their company's data retention requirements in their use of the Salesforce Services. If a Salesforce customer must preserve data and the retention procedures above are insufficient, they may schedule a weekly export of data or copy to a sandbox account. Exports of Customer Data are available in comma separated value (.csv) format by request via Salesforce’s Customer Support department. In addition, many exports can be manually pulled by the designated org administrators.
ServiceNow Once notified ServiceNow has the ability to leverage our internal clone operation process. This provides a locked state copy of the instance, while the customer can continue working on the production instance. Any data additions, changes or deletes will be on the production but not on the frozen instance copy.
Additionally, ServiceNow can freeze backups to prevent them from being over written.
Docusign DocuSign customers determine their retention policies.
QTS Yes QTS will work with customers to meet legal requirements.
SAP Ariba For the network’s standard record retention is 180 days, but customers can request longer terms.
Fieldglass Fieldglass has many methods in which we can freeze customer data, today.
We have the capabilities to restore, utilizing a point in time recovery method to a secondary system for legal review effectively delivering a system that has been frozen in time for all clients.
Hanna HEC standard backup retention is 1 month for productive systems, and 14 days for non-productive systems. However retention period can be changed per request and may have cost impact.
SuccessFactors A customer can configure as many ""purge rules"" as required to comply with data privacy rules. Since these rules vary by country, the solution provides the flexibility to define different retention periods for groups defined by country, department, division, location, job code and hire date.
Customers can grant permissions to the appropriate users to create a request to purge data and to approve the request to purge data. These ""purge rules"" can be scheduled to reoccur. User records are kept in the system, for reporting purposes, but their data is anonymized. Our customers use the solution in compliance with local regulations today in almost 180 countries.
VMware VMware IaaS Services
Participating entities that leverage VMware Data Protection are able to specify the retention period of their backups to comply with policies and legal requirements. Data Protection leverages snapshots to take an image level backup of virtual machines. When a backup is initiated, a snapshot is taken of that virtual machine. Once the snapshot is taken it is then stored on the Data Protection storage for the duration of the retention period assigned in the policy. The policy column in the screenshot below illustrates the variety of data retention policies that have been set within a sample customer’s vCloud Air Data Protection instance. In this example retention policies range from 3 to 365 days.
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VMWare AirWatch
Customers can export and archive solution data using interactive dashboards (CSV), reports (PDF, XLS, and CSV), the AirWatch Hub (PDF), and event log (CSV). Customers in a Dedicated Cloud deployment can leverage a robust data mart.
FireEye Customers have access to data stored in the varying cloud solutions and are accessible at any time during the length of the subscription contract. Retention periods vary per service offered. See section 8.7.2 for further information.
VirtueStream Specific retention requirements can be accommodated on a custom basis. More detailed information would need to be provided in order to scope.
8.15.2 Describe any known inherent disaster recovery risks and provide potential mitigation strategies.
CA APM DR is provided only in a single geography at this point. Professional Services would need to be engaged to provide multi-geo DR
MAA N/A
CA Agile None - our DR plan is tested at a minimum semi-annually.
ASM None
Virtru Please see the Virtru Disaster Recovery Plan provided in the Supplemental Information section of this response.
Salesforce The Salesforce service performs near real-time replication at each data center and annual disaster recovery tests for the service verify the projected recovery times and data replication between the production data center and the disaster recovery center. The disaster recovery site is a 100% replica of the primary production site of capacity (host, network, storage, data). Data is transmitted between the primary and disaster recovery data centers across encrypted links. Additionally, backups of data are performed and data is retained on backups at the geographically separated disaster recovery data center location [CP-4, CP-6, CP-7, CP-9, MP-5].
ServiceNow ServiceNow is divided into two distinct environments for Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR). ServiceNow’s corporate environment and its data center environments are physically and logically isolated from each other. A disaster in ServiceNow’s corporate environment could occur with little or no impact on the ability for the data centers within the private cloud to operate.
In both cases, the BC and the DR are supported by a series of SOPs that allow ServiceNow to quickly and effectively take action when it is required.
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Providing a secure and stable product that mitigates vulnerabilities, reduces risk and quickly responds to the evolving threat landscape is considered a top priority. Following the guidelines established in NIST SP 800-30, regular risk and vulnerability assessments are performed against the production environment to identify, assess and remediate emerging threats. When potential vulnerabilities are discovered, we follow a documented procedure to prioritize and deploy necessary patches.
•Vulnerabilities and threat-sources are identified by conducting interviews with various members of the Cloud Operations community and mapping data to the AirWatch business landscape. •We can provide additional information as conversations progress.
FireEye Varies by service and customer deployment. Will be defined during engagement setup.
VirtueStream Virtustream has built redundancy into all layers of the physical infrastructure in order to deliver SLAs up to 99.999% and mitigate any known risks. To further mitigate against the unknown, Core microVM’s are designed for mission-critical workloads and include reserved compute capacity in a secondary datacenter and automatic storage replication to facilitate the ability to restore operations in the event of an outage at the primary data center.
8.15.3 Describe the infrastructure that supports multiple data centers within the United States, each of which supports redundancy, failover capability, and the ability to run large scale applications independently in case one data center is lost.
CA APM AWS datacenters provide redundancy and failover within a single AWS EC2 zone (i.e., a single geographic location). Professional Services would need to be engaged to provide multi-geo DR
MAA MAA service is currently available from one data center only.
CA Agile We run a hot/warm data center configuration and have the ability to quickly failover if required. Our data centers are ~1300 miles apart to ensure redundancy. We perform full system planned switch over testing at a minimum semi-annually.
ASM ASM core services run in one primary data center, and can fail over to the DR site if there is a catastrophic failure.
AODocs As described elsewhere in this response, AODocs is built on Google Cloud Platform (AppEngine) and Altirnao does not manage this infrastructure.
Virtru We operate our infrastructure in multiple Availability Zones, and any given data center failure would not result in data loss.
Salesforce Customer Data for customers in Salesforce’s Government Cloud is stored in two of our U.S. data center locations. Our service is collocated in dedicated spaces at toptier data centers. Salesforce’s hardware is located inside of secure server rooms designated to Salesforce and separated by concrete walls from other data center tenants. Individual racks inside of the data center are secured with a lock. Specific racks are allocated for hardware supporting the Salesforce Government Cloud. Access to the racks supporting the Salesforce Government Cloud hardware is restricted to Qualified U.S. Citizens as described in the section above.
ServiceNow ServiceNow’s data centers and cloud-based infrastructure have been designed to be highly available. All servers and network devices have redundant components and multiple network paths to avoid single points of failure.
At the heart of this architecture, each customer application instance is supported by a multi-homed network configuration with multiple connections to the Internet. Production application servers are load balanced within each data center. Production database servers are replicated in near-real time to a peer data center within the same geographic region.
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ServiceNow leverages this Advanced High Availability (AHA) architecture for customer production instances in several ways:
•In the event of the failure of one or more infrastructure components, service is restored by transferring the operation of customer instances associated with the failed components to the peer data center.
•Before executing required maintenance, ServiceNow can proactively transfer operation of customer instances impacted by the maintenance to the peer data center. The maintenance can then proceed without impacting service availability.
This approach means that the transfer between active and standby data centers is being regularly executed as part of standard operating procedures – ensuring that when it is needed to address a failure, the transfer will be successful and service disruption minimized.
See the “ServiceNow Security, Operations, and Compliance White Paper” included with this response for more information.
Docusign Each component of our trusted platform - Hardware & Infrastructure, Systems & Operations, Applications & Access, and Transmission & Storage - undergoes tremendous security scrutiny.
HARDWARE & INFRASTRUCTURE
Three geo-dispersed, SSAE 16 audited datacenters
Near real-time secure data replication and encrypted archival 365x24x7 on-site security
Annual Business Continuity Planning (BCP) & Disaster Recovery (DR) testing Third-party penetration testing
SYSTEMS & OPERATIONS
Physically and logically separate networks
Two-factor, encrypted VPN access
Professional, commercial grade firewalls and border routers Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation
Active monitoring and alerting
APPLICATIONS & ACCESS
Formal code reviews and vulnerability mitigation by third parties Application level Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256 bit encryption Key Management & Encryption Program
Enterprise-class malware protection
Digital audit trail
Multiple authentication mechanisms
TRANSMISSION & STORAGE
Secure, private SSL 256 bit viewing session
Anti-tampering controls
Signature verification of signing events
Unalterable, systematic capture of signing data
Digital certificate technology
Customer configurable data retention program
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QTS QTS cloud utilizes alternate telecommunications services from both TW Telecom and NTT America that reduces the likelihood of experiencing a single point of failure.
QTS's failover facilities in RIC1 and ATL1 are a carrier-class and carrier-neutral datacenter with multiple Internet Service Providers. QTS-FC can establish connectivity with another service provider with 24 hours in the event of an unrecoverable catastrophic connectivity failure of QTSFC’s primary/secondary provider.
SAP Ariba Ariba has implemented two sites within each region. In North America the sites are currently located in San Jose, California and Sterling, VA. In Europe the sites are located in St. Leon-Rot, Germany and Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The act of failing over from one site to another has a design goal for its Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of no more than four hours. The design goal for the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is five minutes.
Disaster recovery options are included for all Ariba Cloud Services. In the event of a fail-over to the disaster recovery site, no customer changes are required as all URLs that customers use to reach the applications will continue to work. Ariba will notify customers via their email addresses in the event of unplanned downtime.
Internally, Ariba uses a documented system recovery plan that outlines the approach and steps for recovering the applications. This document defines roles and responsibilities in the event of disaster:
Local Ariba staff maintains the hardware remotely.
Ariba maintains the application software.
Processes are in place to keep database and fileservers in sync between primary and backup data centers.
The failover process of all parts of the infrastructure is automated.
In the event of a catastrophe, Ariba will declare the primary data center “down” and locally the script will be run to switchover and start the applications at the remote data center.
Ariba tests power outage backup scenarios and the Disaster Recovery Plan on a periodic basis to ensure it is up-to-date, successful, and effective.
Fieldglass We host and manage the Fieldglass system within secure Internet data centers provided by CenturyLink in Elk Grove, IL, and our disaster recovery center provided by Equinix in San Jose, CA. Both are managed by Server Central which is a Tier 4 hosting provider and a Tier 1 data provider (see the note below).
All systems are ""mission-critical loads"" supported by IDC Redundant Power Management System (UPS, generators etc.).
Note: Data centers can be classified by tiers, with Tier 1 being the most basic and inexpensive, and Tier 4 being the most robust and costly. According to definitions from the Uptime Institute and the latest draft of TIA/EIA-942 (Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers), a Tier 1 data center is not required to have redundant power and cooling infrastructures. It needs only a lock for security and can tolerate up to 28.8 hours of downtime per year. In contrast, a Tier 4 data center must have redundant systems for power and cooling, with multiple distribution paths that are active and fault tolerant. Furthermore, access should be controlled with biometric readers and single-person entryways, gaseous fire suppression is required, the cabling infrastructure should have a redundant backbone, and the facility can permit no more than 0.4 hours of downtime per year.
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higher standards set by our government. Public data centers that provide disaster recovery/backup services are also built to higher standards.
Hanna Infrastructure setup:
* Standby SAP HEC systems at DR failover site will be shutdown / not useable during regular operations.
* WAN connectivity & special requirements (e.g. acceleration services) fall into the responsibil-ity of the customer.
* Customer must have independent network connections to both DR sites. * All DR-relevant systems are going to be installed according to the Adaptive Computing (AC) principle (virtual hostnames + virtual IP addresses HSR will be used to replicate data from Primary to DR site for HANA solutions, similarly Sybase Replication Server (SRS) will be used to replicate data from Primary to DR site for ASE based solutions. For more information, please refer to attached Business Continuity document
SuccessFactors Our infrastructure architecture is designed with high availability in mind, and engineered for resiliency. All major components are redundant, including power, HVAC, fire suppression, and the physical components of our network.
Production data centers have strict access controls, and are continuously staffed and monitored to help prevent acts of sabotage or vandalism. All production data centers are ANSI/EIA/TIA-942Tier III/IV facilities, and are ISO 27001 certified.
Production data centers are also geographically dispersed to help prevent a single event from affecting more than one data center. In the event a production data center has an outage we failover to an alternate data center in the same geographic region to minimize impact to customers.
Our Cloud Operations teams are also geographically dispersed, working in offices in the US, Europe, South America, and India. Should an office be impacted by an environmental event or pandemic, other offices can continue operations.
Aspects of the plan are described in the SOC reports, Disaster Recovery Plan (“DRP”) and Business Continuity Plan (“BCP”) solutions are dependent on several factors. The customer may be responsible for parts of the recovery/continuity activities
VMware VMware IaaS Services
VMware offers several technologies to provide redundancy, failover capability and the ability to run large scale applications independently in case one data center is lost. vCloud Air is built upon infrastructure that is architected for High Availability leveraging proven vSphere High Availability (HA), vSphere vMotion, and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). These technologies allow participating entities to migrate live workloads and/or automatically restart VMs in the event of host maintenance or unexpected issues. These technologies also maintain a consistently high level of performance for all tenants.
VMWare vSphere vMotion enables migration of live VMs to transfer your workloads during maintenance, without downtime. Unlike other cloud providers, VMWare ensures that tenants are not impacted by standard maintenance. VMware performs vMotion migrations for maintenance behind the scenes for its tenants in vCloud Air during maintenance windows without disrupting tenant applications.
vMotion is also used to seamlessly migrate VMs from an on-premises environment to vCloud Air and back. Today, vCloud Air is one of only a few major cloud vendors that uses live migration to do maintenance. This capability will enable NASPO participating entities to perform live migrations to move thier applications to and from the cloud for maintenance and other purposes. This SOLICITATION # CH16012
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technology inherently prevents the lock-in experienced when migrating to cloud services offered by others.
VMware Dynamic Resource Scheduler continuously monitors CPU and memory utilization across a cluster of vSphere hosts, allocating resources among VMs and rebalancing performance during high-volume peak times. This is performed 24x7 within the VMware vCloud Air environment.
VMware vSphere High Availability delivers the availability required by most applications running in VMs, independent of the operating system and application running in it. Whether participating entities leverage Microsoft Windows or Linux; off-the-shelf or custom developed application; single VMs or many, HA provides uniform, failover protection against hardware and operating system outages within vCloud Air.
HA can:
• Monitor VMware vSphere hosts and VMs to detect hardware and guest operating system failures.
• Restart VMs on other vSphere hosts in the cluster without manual intervention when a server outage is detected.
• Reduce application downtime by automatically restarting VMs upon detection of an operating system failure.
Other cloud providers require you to build availability in to your application. In the best case scenario, this is as simple as including a load balancer in front of multiple VMs in the same tier to achieve basic high availability.
However, often the technologies of other cloud service providers requires a complete redesign of the hosted application, and often network devices such as load balancers are offered at an additional cost, unlike vCloud Air.
vCloud Air was built to run hosted applications as-is, providing availability down to a single VM instance, and balancing resources across multiple tenant needs with DRS. Unlike other clouds, with vCloud Air and vCGS, participating entities are not required to rebuild thier application to get the flexibility and agility that cloud can provide. Of course, vCloud Air customers usually do not just stop at moving applications to vCloud Air. Once in the cloud they start to explore features like our Advanced Networking Services and using APIs, automation, and CI/CD tools to deliver services faster. And, where it makes sense, customers do look at application redesigns as well, but with vCloud Air it is not because they must redesign to ensure the application is always available.
VMWare AirWatch
AirWatch features active-passive configurations for high availability and redundancy with all components made to failover with minimal downtime. Load balancing capabilities are deployed across multiple data centers to ensure immediate server pick up, ensuring zero end user downtime. AirWatch also incorporates replication technology featuring SQL log shipping or network SAN byte replication to prevent data loss.
FireEye Varies by service and customer deployment. Will be defined during engagement setup.
VirtueStream Virtustream’s U.S. based data centers are located in Washington, DC, Las Vegas, and San Francisco. All data centers meet the highest industry standard in terms of operational protocol and have redundancy built into all layers of the physical infrastructure. Core microVM’s, which are used for mission-critical workloads, provide reserved compute capacity and automatic storage replication so that these systems can be failed over to a secondary data center and have access to the compute capacity required in the event of a catastrophic outage at the primary data center.
8.16 Solution Administration
8.16.1 Ability of the Purchasing Entity to fully manage identity and user accounts.
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MAA CA MAA provides user management self-service to customers to manage their own accounts and create accounts for other users.
CA Agile The customer is responsible for managing the lifecycle of all user accounts.
ASM The Purchasing Entity can manage their account and create sub-accounts within ASM.
Google Comply
AODocs Comply
Virtru Virtru does not have an identity system. We federate authentication to Oauth and Email loop verification.
Salesforce Identity Management
Logon is form-based. When users log into the Salesforce application, they submit a username and password, which are sent to Salesforce via an TLS-encrypted session. Security features are developed by Salesforce and built into the application. Third-party packages are not used for development or implementation of security internal to the application.
In addition, single sign-on and two-factor authentication may be used to authenticate users. Some organizations prefer to use an existing single sign-on capability to simplify and standardize their user authentication. You have two options to implement single sign-on—federated authentication using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) or delegated authentication.
Federated authentication using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) allows you to send authentication and authorization data between affiliated but unrelated Web services. This enables you to sign-on to Salesforce from a client application. Federated authentication using SAML is enabled by default for your organization.
Delegated authentication single sign-on enables you to integrate Salesforce with an authentication method that you choose. This enables you to integrate authentication with your LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server, or perform single sign-on by authenticating using a token instead of a password. You manage delegated authentication at the profile level, allowing some users to use delegated authentication, while other users continue to use their Salesforce-managed password. Delegated authentication is set by profile, not organization wide. You must request that this feature be enabled by Salesforce.
Salesforce can be configured to utilize Active Directory directly via Delegated Authentication, or indirectly via Federated Identity using either SAML 1.1, or SAML 2.0. Additionally your users can be loaded from information drawn from your Active Directory servers and modifications made in Active Directory can be propagated into Salesforce.
Customers can use their own SAML Identity Provider, or license one directly from Salesforce with our Identity Connect product.
User Accounts
All users and application-level security are defined and maintained by the organization administrator, and not by Salesforce. The organization administrator is appointed by the customer.
An organization's sharing model sets the default access that users have to each other's data.
There are four sharing models: Private, Public Read Only, Public Read/Write, and Public Read/Write/Transfer. There are also several sharing model elements: Profiles, Roles, Hierarchy, Record Types, Page Layouts, and Field Level security.
ServiceNow Customers manage their own instances, including assigning users, defining user roles and profiles, and administrating the system. ServiceNow does not have access to the Customer’s instances. The ServiceNow wiki has all ServiceNow documentation available.
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Docusign Yes, DocuSign allows the purchasing entity to mange identities and user accounts.
DocuSign for Enterprise is customizable to meet the administrative needs of the largest organizations. Full administration rights give you total control over document custody and retention policies, how signers sign or adopt signatures, user authentication and more. The branding tools ensure recipients can easily identify documents from your organization.
QTS 24x7x365 Operations Staff - Let QTS provide the expertise and experienced staff to monitor and manage your data center facility. Never again worry about staff turnover or whether your technologists are current with data center best practices.
SAP Hanna Yes
VMware VMware IaaS Services
VMware management infrastructure requires 2-factor authentication and multiple layers of access control. vCloud Air customers have the ability to provide access to their designated users. User account management is maintained by the customer.
control. vCloud Air customers have the ability to provide access to their designated users. User account management is maintained by the customer.
VMWare AirWatch
The Purchasing entity has the ability to fully manage identity and user accounts for administrators and end users through the web console. Customers can optionally integrate with AD/LDAP to inherit your existing structure and policies.
FireEye User identity and account settings are controlled within the administration sections of the FireEye cloud solutions.
VirtueStream Virtustream can provide solution for managed solution for Active Directory or LDAP. As standard, we provide support for managing the VM itself and all OS support. However, our typical use case is, customer manages the users and related activities, as Virtustream might not be aware of internal HR elements of User Management.
8.16.2 Ability to provide anti-virus protection, for data stores.
CA APM AWS provides protection/virus scanning for data at rest MAA Logical security is provided by ClamAV Antivirus.
CA Agile We have ClamAV installed on all Linux hosts and TrendMicro for Windows hosts.
ASM Logical security is provided by ClamAV Antivirus.
Google Comply
AODocs N/A
Virtru AlienVault IDS is used to perform virus and vulnerability scans.
Salesforce Salesforce runs antivirus software on the production systems that store, transmit or process customer information. The Anti-virus scans host filesystems (not customer data). The antivirus software checks for virus definition updates daily. Other controls are also used to address malware such as hardening the Operating System of our servers, firewall configuration to ensure only required ports are open and all others denied, and use of intrusion detection systems. Access to these systems is restricted to authorized personnel and all these systems, as well as the host platforms, are monitored in real time through a security monitoring system.
The application only accepts http and https traffic, but Salesforce does not restrict the file types users can upload. Salesforce does not modify or clean any customer data; the system stores the information provided in an encoded format within the database. It is recommended that customers run updated antivirus and antimalware solutions to help mitigate these threats. The production system receives inbound mail as part of the workflow functionality, but this does not pose any threat to our network, application, or users. No code in the email can be executed or transferred, SOLICITATION # CH16012
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eliminating the malicious software risk. Email sent from the Salesforce system is not currently scanned for viruses.
ServiceNow If Customers want to schedule an antivirus software scan on certain computers after a pre-defined number of days, Customer would define a model-based plan with a duration-based maintenance schedule. This would do the scan automatically to those models defined in the Planned Maintenance area.
Docusign Yes, DocuSign maintains enterprise-class malware protection.
QTS Yes - 24x7x365, dependable and detailed support
SAP Hanna Yes
VMware VMware IaaS Services
Anti-virus software is installed on all development, domain and production hardware devices owned and operated by VMware, which hold company data, passwords, or keys. These devices maintain the most recent version of the anti-virus software signature file.
VMWare AirWatch
AirWatch has installed a best-in-class, continuously-updated anti-virus suite on servers in the SaaS environment
FireEye FireEye employs a multi-layered, continuously monitored and engaged set of active defenses to provide anti-virus protection for customer data stores that both meet and exceed traditional approaches. FireEye, and our customers, not only are prepared to reactively withstand attacks from known virus vectors, but since FireEye and our MVX technology is literally, continuously, and securely detonating viruses and other advanced malware on the way to our customer’s data stores, FireEye proactively defends from zero day and other emergent attacks as they happen.
VirtueStream Virtustream offers Anti-Virus protection based on per virtual machine, per month charge.
8.16.3 Ability to migrate all Purchasing Entity data, metadata, and usage data to a successor Cloud Hosting solution provider.
Carahsoft will work with each Participating Entity to develop a cost effective plan to assist in the migration and implementation of their data into the new service that has been selected.
8.16.4 Ability to administer the solution in a distributed manner to different participating entities.
Carahsoft will view each Participating Entity as a separate customer and privileges can be assigned for control access even within the individual services.
8.16.5 Ability to apply a participating entity's defined administration polices in managing a solution.
Each Participating Entity will have the ability to work with Carahsoft and the Service Provider to identify defined administration policies to mangage the solution.
8.17 Hosting and Provisioning
8.17.1 Documented cloud hosting provisioning processes, and your defined/standard cloud provisioning stack.
CA APM CA SaaS Ops has a well defined Service Introduction and update process, including review boards, staged rollouts and followups to ensure service integrity. Our cloud provisioning stack is tied to AWS EC2 services, and includes S3 and RDS for storage; RHEL instances for the applications; route 53 DNS services; cloudfront for monitoring; and ELB for load balancing
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MAA Automation tools are used to install and configure MAA software on CA infrastructure.
SOP documents are used by CA internally.
CA Agile All new systems should be provisions according to our baseline standards and we use configuration management tools to ensure all systems are created with the same standards.
ASM Automation tools are used to install and configure ASM software on CA infrastructure.
SOP documents are used by CA internally.
Google Google has administrative document and Google Deployment Guides accessible on the web.
AODocs This is not applicable to Google.
Virtru Ubuntu AMIs provisioned using terraform and configured by Ansible Salesforce Cloud Hosting and Provisioning
Salesforce’s deployment model is a “public” cloud infrastructure, as defined by NIST 800-145. In the Salesforce Government Cloud, an agency dynamically provisions computing resources over the Internet on our multi-tenant infrastructure. This is a cost effective deployment model for agencies as it gives them the flexibility to procure only the computing resources they need and delivers all services with consistent availability, resiliency, security, and manageability.
Salesforce provides market leading PaaS and SaaS solutions and is a multitenant cloud-based subscription service. Multi-tenant cloud solutions provide a single, shared infrastructure, one code base, one platform that is all centrally managed, with platform-based API to support all integration traffic, and multiple release upgrades included as part of the subscription service. Multi-tenancy and the Cloud Computing model remove unneeded tasks from the process of delivering, managing, and integrating software. Salesforce customers will not need to maintain any hardware or software. Without multiple versions to support, integrations don’t break during updates; they are simply updated automatically. As a result, both the initial integration and its continued maintenance are simplified. More resources can be focused on creating a better product, with a faster cycle of innovation, instead of having to manage the complexity of many different versions to support a vast installed base.
Salesforce's position as an online service enables us to roll out all levels of improvement, from patch releases to major upgrades, that are largely transparent to the end users. When a bug is fixed and tested, it is rolled out to the application as part of regular maintenance; the nature of the service prevents special patches and code branches for individual customers, so all fixes can potentially benefit all customers.
The Salesforce Services is delivered using a world-class data center infrastructure. Each customer's org is hosted from a primary and secondary production data center, with near real-time replication occurring between the two sites.
Salesforce is a pure multi-tenant web application. No software or infrastructure is required by the customer other than a computer, browser and internet connection or a mobile device. User Administration and ProvisioningUser provisioning and management is performed by the customer through the Salesforce Administrative Setup environment. Users, their profiles, permissions and passwords may be managed, edited, activated and deactivated as needed by those with appropriate permissions. An administrator with appropriate privileges can manage session timeout, password policies, IP range login restrictions, delegated authentication/SSO, and requirements as part of this process. On first time login or password reset request, users are required to change their passwords to gain access.
ServiceNow ServiceNow includes all documentation on the wiki at wiki.servicenow.com.
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contract terms. A designated point of contact becomes the default primary administrator who then adds additional users and other admin tasks. DocuSign's cloud stack is defined in architecture documents available under separate confidential disclosure.
QTS
SAP Ariba Our solutions are offered and delivered in a true subscription-based model and shared service (multi-tenant) offering. There is no software to install, no hardware to buy, no maintenance or support costs and no need to hire consultants or tech specialists to run the system. We deploy and manage the infrastructure. Customers only need a web browser for access. Subscriptions include system maintenance, automatic upgrades, enhancements and application of service packs, Level 1– 3 help desk support, professional services and best practices built directly into the application.
Fieldglass Fieldglass maintains its own platforms and follows a mature change control process for introducing new systems to the hosted environments.
Hanna The Managed Service includes the following:
• Infrastructure operations management: monitoring, patching, software updates & maintenance up to the OS Layer
• OS management: monitoring, patching, updates, and maintenance of the specific OS
• Network and system administration
• HANA database platform operations includes: space management revision management , security management , hardware configuration management, backup & recovery, change management coordination
• Health check services, proactive monitoring, capacity management • SAP Technical Application Basis Operations (incl. SAP Basis) • Monitoring
• Troubleshooting – Incident Management Level 2 and 3
• Patch Management
• Housekeeping
• Backup/Recovery
SuccessFactors We offer a cloud based solution. Our application is standardized on the J2EE technology stack with the majority of our software written in industry-standard software programming languages, such as Java.
We also make extensive use of Web 2.0 technologies, such as AJAX and Flash, for improved usability and performance and to deliver a rich and highly interactive experience. Our hardware consists primarily of industry standard web servers, application servers, database servers and storage and networking equipment.
Customers share the network security infrastructure, web servers, application servers and database instance, and each customer has their own set of database tables that are logically partitioned in the database containing its own unique database schema. Each company instance can be completely exported out of the database without affecting any other customer.
The application utilizes the JAVA and J2EE industry standards. Integration is supported through .CSV, XML and web services standards.
The application is portable to any platform and is deployed on Apache (Solaris) Web Servers, JBOSS Application Servers, and Veritas High Availability Cluster Servers, and utilizes Cisco Networking.
VMware VMware IaaS Services
An interface that allows users to select from a catalog of pre built OS images and allows them to provision on the fly.
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VMWare AirWatch
AirWatch uses industry recognized tools and follow best practices to deploy, configure, and maintain server images. We do not apply customer-supplied templates and do not share templates with customers.
Our Information Security team identifies applicable security standards and the AirWatch Server Team creates a secure baseline image for deployment throughout the SaaS environment.
Due to FOIA restrictions, additional information regarding capacity planning and image creation/safeguarding cannot be disclosed at this time.
FireEye This is not applicable as each of FireEye’s offerings are classified as SaaS.
8.17.2 Provide tool sets at minimum for:
1. Deploying new servers (determining configuration for both stand alone or part of an existing server farm, etc.)
CA APM New servers are predefined by the CA SaaS Ops toolchain, and automated using AWS tooling to be able to bring up/down servers on demand MAA Same as above.
CA Agile We utilize configuration management tools to ensure consistent configuration across our servers.
ASM Same as above.
Google 1. This is not applicable to Google. Capacity planning and server deployment is fully managed by Google.
2. This is not applicable. With the Google IaaS solutions all server images are provided by Google.
3. With respect to the SaaS offfering, Google Apps, if customers have not selected the Google Apps Unlimited option which offers unlimited storage, they have options to upgrade. With respect to the PaaS/IaaS offering, Google Cloud Platform, storage space is allocated dynamically based on actual usage demand.
4. SaaS, Google Apps includes numerous administrative tools to monitor end user and administrator activites."
AODocs This is not applicable.
Virtru AMIs provisioned using terraform and configured by Ansible to include all configuration parameters
Salesforce This is not applicable. These services while applicable to IaaS are not applicable to PaaS/SaaS where all of the infrastructure is managed by Salesforce as the Cloud Service Provider. These services are included and managed as part of the Salesforce subscription service and not directly exposed to the customer.
The multitenant architecture and secure logical controls address separation of customer data.
There are no dedicated servers used for individual customers. The Salesforce Services infrastructure is divided into a modular architecture based on “Instance”. Each Instance is capable of supporting several thousand customers in a secure and efficient manner. Services are grouped within each Instance; with app, search, and database elements contained. There are appropriate controls in place to ensure that any given customer’s org (application) is not compromised. The service has been designed to accomplish this and is robustly tested on an ongoing basis by both Salesforce and its customers.
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additional database instances can be brought online (the application already provides for this). For additional server capacity, one or more databases could be moved onto its own database server.
ServiceNow ServiceNow has read and understands this requirement. ServiceNow supports only a SaaS environment so there is no on-premise offering.
SAP Ariba Operating systems when installed through default means and with default settings are typically not secure and often include applications and services not required. Ariba has standardized operating systems' installations based on best practices. Ariba servers are configured with just the applications and services required to run the server as designed. Services not required are disabled and binary files not required for operation are removed, which reduces the total number of vulnerabilities a system may have.
Ariba standardized installation process also ensures that all servers of the same type are configured exactly the same, utilizing a process that initiates an upgrade to system binaries across all systems. Based on the system type, the configuration will remain the same. If one server type needs to receive a patch for a vulnerable binary file, that patch is pushed to all systems of that particular server type. If that binary exists on all systems, it is patched across all systems. Patches are then included in the build process as well so that future systems built are in compliance with security standards. Ariba uses this configuration process to 'harden' the operating system prior to implementing additional controls as detailed below.
Fieldglass Fieldglass uses group policy to ensure the configuration of all servers match our security requirements.
Hanna HEC is a private cloud offering where servers configurations are discussed and approved by customer prior to deployment.
SuccessFactors We apply hardening in line with ISO 27k standards and audit key areas in the SOC 2 Type 2 report. Audit reports are available to customers and prospects upon completion of an NDA.
VMware VMware IaaS Services
vCloud Hybrid Service provides an interface that allows users to select from a catalog of pre-built OS images and allows them to provision on the fly.
vRealize Automation is the next level for provisioning, delivering, and managing IT services on VMware vSphere infrastructure as well as VMware vCloud Air all with a unified management experience. It provides governance and blueprints to deliver services from on premise into vCloud Air.
Customers can integrate vCloud Air with vRealize Automation. In this setup, users access vCloud Air primarily through the vRealize Automation service catalog which handles authentication to the service itself. vRealize Automation supports
VMWare AirWatch
AirWatch uses industry recognized tools and follow best practices to deploy, configure, and maintain server images. We do not apply customer-supplied templates and do not share templates with customers.
Due to FOIA restrictions, additional information regarding capacity planning and image creation/safeguarding cannot be disclosed at this time.
FireEye This is not applicable as each of FireEye’s offerings are classified as SaaS.
VirtueStream Virtustream offers on-demand self-service portal where State of Utah can deploy new servers as stand-alone or part of a server farm.
2. Creating and storing server images for future multiple deployments CA APM Servers are brought up on demand
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MAA Same as above.
CA Agile We utilize configuration management tools to ensure consistent configuration across our servers.
ASM Same as above.
Virtru Provisioning system automatically persists all past AMIs for ability to roll-back Salesforce This is not applicable. These services while applicable to IaaS are not applicable to PaaS/SaaS where all of the infrastructure is managed by Salesforce as the Cloud Service Provider. These services are included and managed as part of the Salesforce subscription service and not directly exposed to the customer.
ServiceNow ServiceNow has read and understands this requirement. ServiceNow supports only a SaaS environment so there is no on-premise offering.
SAP Ariba Ariba has standard 'realms' which are default versions of the various configurations the Ariba on-demand products can be setup for each customer with one test and one production instance. Ariba maintains all hardware, software, realms and entitlements taking the burden off our customers and suppliers whilst providing a platform to configure to each company's needs and business processes
Fieldglass Fieldglass uses virtual servers within our hosted environments uses the hardening configurations to maintain the right level of security.
Hanna HEC is a private cloud offering where servers configurations are discussed and approved by customer prior to deployment.
VMware VMware IaaS Services
We also allow for template and gold master images to be stored on-premise and deployed to the cloud as well as storage of templates and master images in vCloud Director catalogs in in vCloud Air
VMWare AirWatch
Our Information Security team identifies applicable security standards and the AirWatch Server Team creates a secure baseline image for deployment throughout the SaaS environment.
Due to FOIA restrictions, additional information regarding capacity planning and image creation/safeguarding cannot be disclosed at this time.
FireEye This is not applicable as each of FireEye’s offerings are classified as SaaS.
VirtueStream Virtustream offers server images, templates, or other methods (OVF and blueprints) for multiple deployments as part of standard solution.
3. Securing additional storage space
CA APM AWS EC2 storage is elastic, and can be expanded on demand MAA Virtual storage can be added when needed.
CA Agile We have redundant systems for all critical infrastructure and have the ability to add additional storage if deemed necessary.
ASM Additional storage is added manually.
AODocs AODocs storage is based on Google Apps Drive storage and with respect to the SaaS offfering, Google Apps, if customers have not selected the Google Apps Unlimited option which offers unlimited storage, they have options to upgrade.
Virtru New hardware added at Cloudant
Salesforce Salesforce provides extensive storage capabilities. Storage is divided into two categories: file storage and data storage. File storage includes files in attachments, the Documents tab, the Files tab, the File field, Salesforce CRM Content, Chatter (including user photos), and Site.com assets.
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Teams, Contacts, Contracts, Custom objects, Email messages, Events, Forecast items, Google docs, Ideas, Leads, Notes, Opportunities, Opportunity Splits, Orders, Quotes, Quote Template Rich Text Data, Solutions, Tags: Tag applications, Tags: Unique tags, and Tasks.
For file storage, Unlimited Edition is allocated a per-user limit multiplied by the number of users in the organization plus an additional per-organization allocation. For example, an Unlimited Edition organization with 600 users receives 1,211 GB of file storage, or 2 GB per user multiplied by 600 users plus an additional 11 GB.
For data storage, Unlimited Edition is allocated either 1 GB or a per-user limit, whichever is greater. For example, an Unlimited Edition organization with 10 users receives 1 GB because 10 users multiplied by 20 MB per user is 200 MB, which is less than the 1 GB minimum.
Additional storage can be purchased, or files can be exported and archived outside of Salesforce, thus freeing up file storage space.
ServiceNow ServiceNow has read and understands this requirement. ServiceNow supports only a SaaS environment so there is no on-premise offering.
QTS Services that scale to meet your web and IT infrastructure needs - QTS offers space options from single cabinets to multi-rack cages to private suites. Coupled with configurable primary and redundant power options to run your infrastructure, QTS Colocation services can be scaled to support your near term growth requirements and future expansion.
SAP Ariba We carefully monitor all network interfaces. Internally we are well below capacity on our most congested interconnects. To the internet we use Border Gateway Protocol to peer with redundant Internet Service Provider’s and manage the bandwidth accordingly.
Fieldglass As a software-as-a-service (SaaS), Fieldglass automatically and transparently handles the scaling and redundancy for customers based on SLAs governing performance and availability. Fieldglass monitors application servers, database servers, bandwidth, and infrastructure for average and maximum utilization with Orion. Current utilization averages approximately 20 percent across all components with a goal of scaling the component vertically or horizontally (depending on the specific component) upon reaching a 60 percent threshold). All systems are scalable either horizontally or vertically to handle capacity requirements. This includes but is not limited to web servers, database servers, and storage.
Hanna HEC is a private cloud offering where servers configurations are discussed and approved by customer prior to deployment.
VMware VMware IaaS Services
Additional storage can be purchased and provisioned in 48 hours.
VMWare AirWatch
Our Information Security team identifies applicable security standards and the AirWatch Server Team creates a secure baseline image for deployment throughout the SaaS environment.
Due to FOIA restrictions, additional information regarding capacity planning and image creation/safeguarding cannot be disclosed at this time.
FireEye This is not applicable as each of FireEye’s offerings are classified as SaaS.
4. Monitoring tools for use by each jurisdiction’s authorized personnel – and this should ideally cover components of a public (respondent hosted) or hybrid cloud (including Participating entity resources).
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CA APM all SaaS based instances are monitored by CA SaaS Ops. With Hybrid deployments, customers can manage the on premise components of the deployment using their own tooling or CA products
MAA MAA is monitored internally as well as externally using multiple tools recognized within industry.
CA Agile Access to monitoring tools is provisions according to the principle of least priviledge and is only granted based upon business need.
ASM ASM uses Nimsoft Monitor, third-party open source monitoring tools, and ASM itself to monitor the health of ASM internal services and servers.
AODocs AODocs includes numerous administrative tools to monitor end user and administrator activites.
Virtru Dtrace, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Logstache, ElasticSearch, Kibana, DataDog Salesforce Trust.salesforce.com is the Salesforce community’s home for real-time information on system performance and security. On this site you'll find:
● Live and historical data on system performance
● Up-to-the minute information on planned maintenance
● Phishing, malicious software, and social engineering threats ● Best security practices for your organization
● Information on how we safeguard your data
System Overview
In addition to our Trust site (http://trust.salesforce.com/trust/status), you will also have access to a System Overview, which will help Salesforce customers monitor performance and usage of their own Salesforce org. This overview includes:
Schema - # and % of custom objects and data storage
Business Logic - # and % of Rules, Apex triggers and classes, as well as % of code used Licenses
API Usage - # and % of requests in the last 24 hours
User Interface - # and % of custom apps, sites, flows, custom tabs and pages Portal
The above list is of all the possible metrics that Salesforce customers may have in their system overview.
ServiceNow ServiceNow has read and understands this requirement. ServiceNow supports only a SaaS environment so there is no on-premise offering.
QTS Alert Logic’s Threat Manager Intrusion Detection System (IDS) and Vulnerability Scanning functionality are designed to monitor, detect, report and alert on adverse security issues on behalf of our customers. Within this process there are a number of both automated and manual processes which are supported by our SIEM software (‘The Expert System’) as well as our Network Security Analysts in our Security Operations Center (SOC). Threat Manager is the Alert Logic IDS and VA scan product. It includes the physical or virtual appliances and software tools used to analyze the customer’s infrastructure and monitor that infrastructure for attacks.
ActiveWatch is the managed aspect of Threat Manager, providing 24 x 7 monitoring and incident response operations from the Alert Logic SOC.
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reduces false positives and keeps analysts and customers focused on real, actionable incidents.
In addition, Alert Logic’s security research team continuously monitors threat data and tunes the Expert System to respond to the most current threats.
SAP Ariba Within our solution, specific logging takes place that is viewable by the customer administrator or their designee. Audit logs produced through use of the solution are considered customer data and are maintained within the customer's instance of the database. These logs are retained so long as the customer has an active contract with us.
As a user control consideration, customers are responsible for monitoring the proper entry of data to the solution and reviewing reports generated by the system.
Fieldglass Fieldglass has a comprehensive set of performance monitoring tools in place.
Some tools are built in the application and some are external.
The Fieldglass application captures every page hit and the time it takes to respond. It captures the server response time and the client rendering time separately. The average page times are available to be seen by privileged users through the application. The user can drill down to the hour or minute or a single request for analysis. The information can be displayed by time range for all users, by company, or even for an individual user.
Orion Network Monitoring watches more than 1,000 different points of interest on the production infrastructure. These monitors include, but are not limited to, the following: CPU, Memory, I/O, Capacity and Synthetic Transactions. These monitors along with our custom application performance monitors are used to produce and comply with customer SLA requirements.
Fieldglass also uses Splunk Enterprise Security for event/audit log collection and correlation. Events and logs are retained online for 90 days and offline for two years.
Alerts are generated and reviewed as they occur.
Hanna SAP HEC uses Solution Manager for monitoring the infrastructure end to end.
Hybris SAP Hybris offers continuous 24/7 systems monitoring in-place, which automatically notifies you, SAP Hybris support and optionally your designated implementation partner in the event of any monitored system problem. Tools used for monitoring include HP Sitescope and Nagios. This service ensures quick response times to emergency problems. Standard monitors are in place for basic site availability. Customer can utilize additional 3rd party monitoring services should it wish to add additional monitoring. Upon request, monthly or quarterly reviews are offered to review performance over the period. When a system problem occurs, in addition to monitor alerts sent to the customer, SAP Hybris support may send emails to a designated customer notification email address to provide status, updates or further detailed information. In addition, a support ticket would be created which would include such information.
SuccessFactors The application logs the following for every transaction: Event/transaction Time, Transaction ID, Event/transaction Type, Event/transaction Status (Result of the event; if failure, includes reason), Object Attributes (Describes the object affected by the event), Originator User ID (ID of the user who initiated the event or action), Subject ID, Process User ID, Account Number, Transaction Specific Elements.
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that point in time. The data in the audit log can be viewed with appropriate permissions.
We also provide an optional Audit Framework for additional audit logging capabilities. All audit logs within the application are accessible only by customers. Therefore, the review of application audit logs as well as retention periods for the application audit logs are the customer’s responsibility, and can be determined as per requirements
VMware VMware IaaS Services
The vCloud Hybrid Service infrastructure, including the top layer management stack, the customer management stack and the computing/storage/network hardware are monitored for availability, capacity and performance. Customers are responsible for monitoring their own VMs (OS, apps).
Customers can use on premise monitoring tools to manage and monitor their applications and OSes over VPN and direct connect.
VMWare AirWatch
The AirWatch Cloud Operations team monitors the SaaS environment. AirWatch follows the Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, and Security (FCAPS) model to monitor the SaaS environment.
•We have configured the system to notify support personnel of any issues with key performance items
•Because the solution is built on industry-standard ASP.NET architecture, it integrates into existing management and monitoring tools. Administrators can configure log data storage to destinations such as Windows Event Viewer, SNMP traps, syslog, SMTP email alerts, etc. The solution also integrates directly with Microsoft SCCM.
The communication layer includes a complete infrastructure for API integration to third parties as well as a rich set of existing APIs, web services, single sign on and authentication protocols.
Integrate with security information and event management (SIEM) solutions for enhanced logging of events occurring in the console. Administrators can view events, filter by event type, category and module, and export events. Event logging settings can be configured based on severity levels, with the ability to send specific levels to external system via syslog integration.
FireEye This is not applicable as each of FireEye’s offerings are classified as SaaS.
8.18 Trial and Testing Periods (Pre- and Post- Purchase)
8.18.1 Describe your testing and training periods that your offer for your service offerings.
Training and testing periods will vary based on the Service provider as well as the complexity of the request that is made by the Purchasing Entity. Some of the services can be functional within a few days and some will take a few months for full implementation.
8.18.2 Describe how you intend to provide a test and/or proof of concept environment for evaluation that verifies your ability to meet mandatory requirements.
Upon Request, Carahsoft will provide access to any of the Cloud Technologies proposed. The precise Access to the technology may be in a limited or “DEMO” fashion. Access will be to an extent that the State may complete any necessary tests or verifications that may be required. Instructions on precisely how each technology will be accessed will be provided upon request. All of the proposed technologies are currently live/ active and support many customers. A specific instance of the requested technology would be stood up within the cloud framework to support this request. As this will be occurring within a production, the creation of the instance is a quick and straight forward process not requiring any sort of extraordinary effort.
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8.18.3 Offeror must describe what training and support it provides at no additional cost.
Carahsoft provides the customer with free training for specific deals on a case by case basis. This can include free installation, training, and maintenance for high value customers who purchase Carahsoft’s solution through the NASPO contract vehicle. In addition, Carahsoft will provide webinars with basic training on a quarterly basis, made available to any Purchasing Entity who wishes to participate.
8.19 Integration and Customization
8.19.1 Describe how the Solutions you provide can be integrated to other complementary applications, and if you offer standard-based interface to enable additional integrations.
The integration into other applications will vary base on the Service Provider, however it is standard practice to allow for open AIs for integration development. For example Connecting Salesforce to an existing enterprise application is a common and frequently performed task. Integration options range from native Web Services support (APIs, outbound workflow, etc.) to import/export utilities to middleware integration via packaged connectors to toolkits for Java, .NET, and other open platforms. Our solution provides the ability to call out to virtually all common APIs, to enable synchronization, push / pull, and mash-ups with external apps/systems. Salesforce itself is based on web-service based APIs that in turn simplify access to Salesforce data from external systems. API-based integration is heavily leveraged by our customers.
8.19.2 Describe the ways to customize and personalize the Solutions you provide to meet the needs of specific Purchasing Entities.
The Service Providers customization options are very extensive and highly configurable. For example The Salesforce Platform offers a core set of technologies that not only power the Salesforce SaaS products, but also allows your Agency to build custom apps, connect data from any system, and manage it from anywhere. The Salesforce Platform allows customers to build apps fast with just a few clicks, designed for desktop and mobile devices, all from a single canvas. The Salesforce Platform has been given top ratings by Gartner, Forrester, & Info-Tech Research. To help IT deliver apps faster, the Salesforce Platform offers a simple yet powerful set of declarative, point-and-click tools that anyone can use to achieve business goals at lightning speed. Without writing code, developers and business users alike can quickly and easily create custom apps on the Salesforce Platform with complex business logic and beautiful user interfaces designed specific to every screen. Salesforce Lightning Builder tools allows your Agency to work in alignment with agile development methodologies as IT meet business demands faster. The Platform uses open APIs based on industry standards such as REST and SOAP to make it easy for your Agency to build apps that integrate with legacy systems. For more complex applications, developers can leverage the Apex programming language. Apex is an object-oriented, on-demand language. It is like Java, with similar syntax and notation, and is strongly-typed, compiled on demand, and fully integrated into the Platform. All of the application services come right out of the box, from a powerful workflow engine to API services, integration services, authentication, event log framework, analytics, and collaboration.
8.20 Marketing Plan
Describe your how you intend to market your Solutions to NASPO ValuePoint and Participating Entities.
Carahsoft offers deep experience in public sector marketing. Our dedicated team plans, promotes and executes more than 2,000 public-sector marketing campaigns and events each year, including contractspecific promotional activities. These include but are not limited to:
News announcements
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Social media promotion (Twitter, Linked In, Facebook, Carahsoft Community) Website content/reciprocal links (Carahsoft website page; content for contract sponsor page) Marketing materials (FAQs, contract overviews, solution spec sheets, powerpoint slides) Training documents
Co-branded tradeshow graphics, giveaways, display materials Tradeshow participation (national, state and local government and education shows) Digital and print ads
Webinars
Email campaigns
Proactive marketing opportunity tar available through:
o National Coalition for Public Procurement (NCPP) – publicprocurementcoalition.org o Institute for Public Procurement (NIGP) – nigp.org
o National Association of Counties (NACo) – naco.org
o The United States Conference of Mayors – usmayors.org o National League of Cities – nlc.org
o National Governors Association – nga.org
o Relevant State Associations
8.21 Related Value-Added Services to Cloud Solutions
Describe the valued-added services that you can provide as part of an awarded contract, e.g. consulting services pre- and post- implementation. Offerors may detail professional services in the RFP limited to assisting offering activities with initial setup, training and access to the services.
In addition to Carahsoft's quoting and configuration expertise, we also have a wide range of Service Provider implementation partners that we leverage to work with Purchasing Entities in order to ensure successful adoption and deployment within a Purchasing Entity. We will help to identity needs for initial setup, training and access to the services so that it is all available at the best prices from one source to the Purchasing Entity.
8.22 Supporting Infrastructure
8.22.1 Describe what infrastructure is required by the Purchasing Entity to support your Solutions or deployment models.
The Service Providers that are being proposed operate on their own secure infrastructure. The Purchasing Entities will only need an internet connection to access the services.
8.22.2 If required, who will be responsible for installation of new infrastructure and who will incur those costs?
The Service Providers maintain all costs for updating and building new infrastructures.
8.23 Alignment of Cloud Computing Reference Architecture Clarify how your architecture compares to the NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture, in particular, to describe how they align with the three domains e.g. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS).
CA APM The SaaS portal runs in Amazon Web Services.
MAA CA MAA is a SaaS service.
CA Agile Only SaaS is being offered via a public cloud
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ASM As a monitoring service, ASM is considered to be SaaS.
Virtru The capability provided to the consumer is to use the provider’s applications running on a cloud infrastructure2 . The applications are accessible from various client devices through either a thin client interface, such as a web browser (e.g., web-based email), or a program interface. The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, storage, or even individual application capabilities, with the possible exception of limited userspecific application configuration settings.
Salesforce Salesforce’s deployment model is a “public” cloud infrastructure, as defined by NIST 800-145. In the Salesforce Government Cloud, an agency dynamically provisions computing resources over the Internet on our multi-tenant infrastructure. This is a cost effective deployment model for agencies as it gives them the flexibility to procure only the computing resources they need and delivers all services with consistent availability, resiliency, security, and manageability.
Salesforce was the first Cloud Service Provider to attain FedRAMP Authority to Operate for both Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS), consistent with the FedRAMP moderate baseline controls. Salesforce does not provide IaaS as a direct service offering to our customers, it is an underlying part of our PaaS and SaaS offerings.
Salesforce Government Cloud
In May 23, 2014 Salesforce achieved a FedRAMP Agency Authority to Operate at the moderate impact level (as described in FIPS 199 and 200) issued by Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Salesforce Government Cloud. Additionally, on May 15, 2015, HHS, as the FedRAMP authorizing agency, approved the Salesforce Government Cloud authorization package that was updated based on annual attestation requirements and updates to the FedRAMP baseline which is FISMA compliant and based on the current release of NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4.
Testing for the ATO was performed by a third party assessment organization (3PAO). The Salesforce Government Cloud information system and authorization boundary, is comprised of the Force.com Platform, Salesforce Services (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Chatter), and the backend infrastructure (servers, network devices, databases, storage arrays) that support the operations of these products, referred to as the General Support System (GSS).
To obtain compliance with FedRAMP, Salesforce conducted security assessment and authorization activities in accordance with FedRAMP guidance, NIST SP 800-37, and HHS guidance. As part of this process Salesforce documented a System Security Plan (SSP) for the Salesforce Government Cloud service offering. The SSP is developed in accordance with NIST SP 800-18, Guide for Developing Federal Information System Security Plans. The SSP identifies control implementations for the GSS and in-scope customer facing products (Force.com Platform, Salesforce Services) according to the FedRAMP moderate baseline and HHS security control parameters. A security assessment of the information system was conducted by a third party assessment organization (3PAO) in accordance with NIST 800-53A and FedRAMP requirements.
The security assessment testing determined the adequacy of the management, operational, and technical security controls used to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the Salesforce service and the customer data it stores, transmits and processes.
To maintain compliance with FedRAMP, Salesforce conducts continuous monitoring. Continuous monitoring includes ongoing technical vulnerability detection and remediation, remediation of open compliance related findings, and at least annual independent assessment of a selection of security controls by 3PAO. As part of our FedRAMP annual assessment, Salesforce is now aligned with NIST SP 800-53, Rev. 4 controls.
ServiceNow ServiceNow’s architecture aligns with Software as a Service (SaaS).
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Docusign DocuSign’s DTM® solution is ISO 27001:2013 certified and many of the ISO 27001:2013 controls are mapped to the NIST 800-53 requirements; we can provide additional information upon request.
SAP Ariba Our solutions are offered and delivered in a true subscription-based model and shared service (multi-tenant) offering. There is no software to install, no hardware to buy, no maintenance or support costs and no need to hire consultants or tech specialists to run the system. We deploy and manage the infrastructure. Customers only need a web browser for access. Subscriptions include system maintenance, automatic upgrades, enhancements and application of service packs, Level 1– 3 help desk support, professional services and best practices built directly into the application.
Fieldglass Fieldglass is offered in a SaaS model. We follow the public cloud model identified by NIST. All customers access the same Fieldglass application version in a multi-tenancy database. The system is hosted in a secure hosting facility. Fieldglass manages everything from the cage in including all servers, devices, wiring, software, and configuration. Fieldglass uses the Cloud Security Alliance framework to measure itself against the recommended controls, in addition to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 controls in the Trust Services Principles of Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, and Privacy.
Hanna HEC is a private cloud offering from SAP that provides fully 'managed' Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) following NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architetcure.
Hybris The SAP Hybris Commerce, Cloud Edition is a Private Cloud Managed Service that offers a best practice multichannel commerce platform built on hybris accelerator technology, running in SAP Hybris own datacenters with a pay as you grow subscription model.
SuccessFactors Our IT architecture is aligned with ISO 27002. We are Safe Harbor certified and in alignment with BS10012 and ISO 20000 for Service Delivery. We demonstrate an on-going commitment to protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability (“CIA”) of data from internal and external threats, making us a reliable and secure system provider.
Our secure multi-tenant Software as a Service (SaaS) platform is designed for availability, security, scalability, and performance. Industry best practices and standards are adopted and incorporated.
Our Network also complies with the Authority to Operate as a Moderate Risk Federal Information System by the Office of Personnel Management and Department of Homeland Security; NIST SP800-53 Security Controls; EU Privacy Directive 95/46/EC for EU and non-EU customer data; Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) v 2.0; Safe Harbor.
We provide privacy compliant data center facilities not only in the United States but also as a Member State of the European Union (EU) or a state of the European Economic Area (EEA). Currently, such data centers are certified for ISO27001, ISO9001 and PCI-DSS compliance.
Our security services provide complete and thorough monitoring of all traffic on the network on a 24x7x365 basis, and include security technology, alert services and incident management support. We are audited twice annually to SSAE16 (US) or ISAE 3402 (international) accounting standards.
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with traditional cloud solution, where the billing is based on allocation of resources in T-Shirt size (Micro, S, M, L, XL, XXL), and if the server is up, consumer of the cloud pays, but when it is down, they don’t. In case of the Virtustream solution, customer only pays based on the average of vCPU, RAM, IOPS and Network I/O; the key is average, not aggregate and based on consumption not allocation. In addition, all storage, security, application management services are offered as a monthly fee, based on the VMs; also, Virtustream can provide consultative and project support based on time and materials.
6.The deployment of Virtustream cloud can be on-premise or private based on purchase of its Cloud Management Platform, Community Cloud based on its IaaS, Public Cloud based on its IaaS and Hybrid cloud based on its ability to provide software and IaaS combined.
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