The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is the U.S. government's standardised approach to security assessment and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. For cloud service providers selling to federal agencies, an Authority to Operate (ATO) is non-negotiable. We help CSPs reach FedRAMP Ready and authorisation efficiently, with a clear-eyed view of effort, cost, and timeline.
Map your current control environment to NIST 800-53 baseline controls at the target impact level. Identify what's in place, what's partial, and what's missing, including the supply chain controls most CSPs underestimate.
Define an authorisation boundary that's defensible and minimises ongoing burden. We work with engineering to draw the boundary precisely, so what's in scope is what genuinely needs to be in scope.
Produce the System Security Plan, supporting documentation, and evidence library a 3PAO can audit against. We've seen common 3PAO findings before; we work to eliminate them up front, not after.
Coordinate with your 3PAO during assessment, prepare your team for interviews, manage POA&Ms, and support continuous monitoring activities post-authorisation.
For systems where the loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability would have limited adverse effect. 125 controls.
The most common baseline. For systems handling sensitive but unclassified federal data. 325 controls.
For systems handling government data where loss would have severe or catastrophic adverse effect. 421 controls.
Whether you're scoping FedRAMP for the first time, working toward FedRAMP Ready, or preparing for re-authorisation, our advisory team brings practical experience with NIST 800-53, cloud-native architectures (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, GCP Assured Workloads), and the realities of working with 3PAOs. We complement, not compete with, your 3PAO, and we work alongside your engineering, security, and legal teams to keep the programme on track.
A 30-minute scoping call is the fastest way to understand what authorisation will involve for your system and what a realistic timeline looks like.
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