Microsoft, OpenAI get FedRAMP High authorization; GSA’s RPA bots open the agency up to security risks

Federal agencies with highly sensitive workloads now have the opportunity to use OpenAI GPT-4o. Microsoft announced that it received FedRAMP High accreditation to offer the OpenAI generative AI platform through its Azure Government cloud. The FedRAMP High designation denotes that the OpenAI services have met a higher security threshold to work with sensitive civilian datasets, including those in the fields of health care, law enforcement, finance and emergency response, among others.

The General Services Administration has a health robotic process automation program, but in some cases, those bots are putting data and systems at risk, the agency’s inspector general found in a recent audit. In a new report, GSA’s Office of the Inspector General stated that the agency’s RPA program did not comply with IT security requirements to “ensure bots are operating securely and properly.” The watchdog found a slew of security issues with the bots ranging from the agency not establishing a process for removing access to decommissioned bots to a lack of monitoring and reporting bot-related activity.

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