Compliant Operations
Helping Operations, Security, and GRC Teams understand FedRAMP requirements, and how to ensure workflow stays efficiently compliant
Where do you fit each journey phase?
Process Experts, Implementers, and Coordinators
GRC, security, and operations teams play a critical role across all FedRAMP phases by designing, implementing, and maintaining compliance strategies, ensuring the process compliance, and optimizing operations to adhere to these standards. They work together to identify and remediate risks and vulnerabilities, build processes, and ensure seamless operations, all while documenting and demonstrating compliance with FedRAMP requirements.
Pathfinding:
- Regulatory understanding
- Strategic planning/impact analysis
- Risk management
Solution Building:
- Tech expertise on your platform stack
- Process integration and high team cooperation
- Team problem-solving
Assessment Preparation:
- Audit process expertise
- Communication
- Time management, particularly during the assessment period
What pitfalls and challenges can you expect?
As a member of an operations team, your role is to implement changes to processes and systems in a way that ensures ongoing compliance while maintaining efficiency, and implementing much of the required work during the assessment process itself. What should you expect? The key is well thought out processes and implementation practice leading up to the assessment itself.
Pitfalls
- Misinterpretation of control requirements and interpretation
- Failing to implement controls, many operational processes are easy to overlook
- Insufficient documentation and/or evidence preservation--especially in high operations tempo platforms and environments
Challenges
- Staying aware of ongoing regulatory changes, especially in multi-compliance platforms
- Incorporating security requirements without compromising operational efficiency
- Implementing the fast-paced requests for evidence and review process during the assessment period
BENEFITS OF VANAHEIM SECURITY
As a former multi-cloud FedRAMP High platform assessment preparation lead and former 3PAO assessor, Vanaheim's consultation services draw from deep experience to help you understand how to anticipate assessor requests, and maximize the effectiveness of the interview and evidence request processes to maximize clarity and minimize finding impacts.
Course Offerings
Easy-to-follow courses, on your own time
Our courses are designed to save you expensive consulting hours to get you comfortable with the bare basics aĀ GRC, security function, or IT operations team needs to know. You might opt to include honest stories and lessons learned from someone who has successfully navigated the process end-to-end and helped many others achieve the same.
Check out our free learnings, or some excerpts from each program tier to see the Vanaheim difference.
Free Examples
- "How do 3PAO assessments work?"
- "Engaging an authorized 3PAO"
Paid Tier Examples
- Foundations: "Writing good documentation"
- Experiential Learning: "3PAO evidence collection methods"