Organizations looking to participate and take advantage of the rapidly growing Government and Public sector cloud market must get ready by conducting a gap assessment of their environment.
Security and compliance-focused customers especially delivering services to Government organizations must comply with FedRAMP, FISMA, or CMMC requirements.
FedRAMP was established in 2012 and is managed by the U.S. General Services Administration.
Organizations continue to migrate and adopt AWS Cloud Services and offer digital services to their customers and stakeholders.
Change control and configuration management processes help maintain a secure baseline configuration of the Cloud Service Provider’s (CSP) architecture.
AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) is a service that enables you to easily and securely share AWS resources with any AWS account or within your AWS Organization.
stackArmor has been supporting customers since 2014 in assisting with their AWS cloud migration and management needs. Once the migration is done, continued cloud management is critical to receiving the cloud dividend. stackArmor has developed the Well-Managed Cloud framework and the stackArmor ThreatAlert® security platform to help customers easily manage their cloud environments. The ThreatAlert platform provides four key areas of focus including security, operations, compliance, and governance. Screenshot of ThreatAlert® Security Platform for managing and operating secure and optimal cloud environments on AWS A key part of operating a cloud environment is to ensure the lowest possible operational costs. To help customers implement an easy to understand Cloud cost optimization is the process of reducing your overall cloud spend by identifying mismanaged resources, eliminating waste, reserving capacity for higher discounts, and right-sizing computing services to scale. There are a few common cloud cost optimization best practices, including, finding unused
ISVs and Startups are increasingly being driven to provide software as a service to Government agencies. SaaS solutions are critical to driving digital transformation and helping agencies meet their mission requirements. Commercial organizations must obtain a FedRAMP Authority To Operate (ATO) to ensure that their cloud system meets government data confidentiality, integrity, and availability requirements. The technical architecture for obtaining an ATO can be especially challenging for large multi-product or multi-country organizations. For example, large ISV’s have multiple product lines or complex compliance requirements that must satisfy current and future needs. A platform-centric architecture is essential to ensure that the FedRAMP compliant system is scalable given the high cost of initial compliance. stackArmor has pioneered ATO Acceleration using an “in-boundary” platform-centric architecture on AWS. stackArmor ‘s ATO Acceleration solution is vetted by AWS and is called ThreatAlert®. The solution incorporates two key best practices highly relevant for compliance-focused organizations: 1) A landing zone pattern and
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a unified standard for implementing cybersecurity across the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), which includes over 300,000 companies in the supply chain.
For start-ups, ISVs, small businesses, commercial organizations, government contractors, education institutions, and federal agencies that are considering achieving an Authority to Operate (ATO), join us for the ATO Acceleration Workshop on Wednesday, October 28th, 2020 at 1pm ET.
Since its release in 2014, Kubernetes has truly revolutionized the world of application orchestration.
stackArmor Lightning Talks – Compliance In The Cloud (AWS) stackArmor Presents Lightning Talks – Compliance In The Cloud on August 19th, 2020 at 1PM ETThe recording is available to watch on-demand! Session 1: ATO on CloudJoin us for an introductory session on the Authority to Operate (ATO) on AWS program. This will be followed by a panel discussion on ‘’Startups: Achieving ATO on AWS”. Time: 1:00pm – 2:25pm ETSpeakers:Greg Herrmann – Sr. Security Partner Strategist, AWSMike Colson – Technical Engagement Architect, AWSDon Spidell – Cloud Architect Lead, Summit Technology GroupMike Ciancio – IT Manager, G2OPSAndrew Urushima – SVP Finance, BitglassGaurav “GP” Pal – Principal and Founder, stackArmorMartin Rieger – Chief Solutions Officer, stackArmor Session 2: CIS Benchmarks and Audit Best PracticesGet an opportunity to learn about CIS benchmarks and offerings that help accelerate your path to FedRAMP/CMMC compliance. Hear from accredited FedRAMP third-party assessment organizations (3PAOs) on audit best practices,
