FedRAMP Moderate Readiness for a Public-Safety Software Company
A 3PAO readiness review passed on the first try, and an agency authorization granted eleven months later.
Client name withheld by agreement- Client
- Computer-aided dispatch and records software vendor
- Region
- Arlington, Virginia
- Year
- 2023
- Duration
- 34 weeks
- Scope
- Moderate baseline · CJIS Security Policy alignment
- Practice
- AI, Cloud & Digital Trust
The challenge
What was at stake.
A public-safety software company sells computer-aided dispatch and records management to police and fire agencies. A federal law enforcement customer wanted to adopt the platform, which meant a FedRAMP Moderate authorization on top of the CJIS controls the company already followed.
The platform ran in a commercial cloud region with shared tooling. The engineering team had never written a control narrative and was building new dispatch features at the same time.
What we did
The approach, step by step.
- 01
Federal environment separated
We designed a dedicated authorization boundary in a government cloud region, with its own identity, logging and deployment pipeline.
- 02
Gaps closed in the platform
FIPS-validated cryptography, continuous vulnerability scanning, configuration baselines and centralized audit logs were engineered into the new environment.
- 03
Package written by engineers, for reviewers
The system security plan and attachments were drafted with the engineers who run the system, so every statement matched what an assessor would observe.
- 04
CJIS and FedRAMP mapped together
One control set satisfied both, so state and local agencies benefit from the same evidence.
- 05
3PAO readiness review passed
We prepared the evidence and walked the independent assessor through the boundary, and the readiness review passed on the first attempt.
Outcomes
What changed, in numbers.
- 1st
- attempt 3PAO readiness review passed
- 11
- months from readiness to agency authorization
- 1
- control set serving FedRAMP and CJIS
- 0
- critical findings at initial assessment
We went from a commercial product to a federally authorized one without stopping our roadmap.
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