Assessment PreparationĀ
Let's create a smooth evaluation experience for your team
How should your team prepare?
Getting ready for your 3PAO assessment
Third Party Assessment Organizations (3PAOs) have specific testing requirements to follow, and evidentiary due diligence to follow during the assessment process.
Having your team organized, ready to demonstrate all aspects of your platform, and prepared to efficiently produce evidence in the manner your 3PAO will require it can reduce your organization's total level of effort and operational disruption during the assessment period by 50% or more.
What pitfalls and challenges can you expect?
Accurate and sufficiently detailed documentation is a critical foundation for assessment success, as is dedicating personnel to the interview and audit process that can speak in great detail to the inner workings of your platform. However, this can require senior personnel to be solely dedicated to this process for weeks.
The complexity of your platform can substantially the scope of the interview process and evidence collection requirements, further requiring senior personnel to explain each aspect or component in detail. Efficient and organized preparation is crucial to interview efficiency.
After the interviews, however, any evidence not presented during interview, or resulting from assessor need for follow-up, can produce new evidence requests that can number in the hundreds for complex systems. Organizations who prepare their teams for efficient production, quality review, and submission achieve lower numbers of false positive findings, or failures due to insufficient evidence within the assessment time period.
Ā BENEFITS OF VANAHEIM SECURITY
Vanaheim Security has performed a number of agency and FedRAMP assessments as both the assessor and leading the organization assessed, having organizedĀ large, complex platforms with 200+ sub-contractors to perform interviews, demonstrations, and provide quality evidence and documentation that minimized or altogether eliminated back and forth communications with the assessment team, and assured leadership of assessment progress and performance before assessment conclusion.
Vanaheim offers a number of ways to gain access to experienced insight, ready to accommodate any stage of your journey.
Course Offerings
Easy-to-follow courses, on your own time
Whether you need to know the basics of FedRAMP 3PAO assessment processes, want expert insights from holding roles as 3PAO assessor and business leader, or want to ask tough questions 1:1 of an advisor who has lived your journey and succeeded, Vanaheim has tiered options to meet your need exactly where you are in your Assessment Preparation stage.
Check out our free videos below to get a feel for our content, and the value you can expect in the Comprehensive Advisory course tier.
OR if you prefer to explore the FedRAMP journey end-to-end from the perspective of an individual role, Vanaheim has you covered.
Free Examples
- "How do 3PAO assessments work"
- "Engaging an authorized 3PAO"
Premium Content Examples
- Foundations: "Writing good documentation"
- Experiential Learning: "3PAO evidence collection methods"
- Comprehensive Advisory: "FedRAMP 'major changes' and how to plan for them"