Business Leadership
Helping you ensure success for your teams throughout your FedRAMP journey
Where do you fit in each journey phase?
Expectation-Setter, Timeline ManagerĀ and Assessment Champion
In the Pathfinding phase, you willĀ establish financial projections, resource availability, and executive commitment.
However, as the Solution Building phase progresses and regulatory engagement ramps up, leadership becomes a crucial relationship anchor with your Authorizing Official and 3PAO.
Finally, as Assessment Preparation begins, leadership becomes chief coordinator and cheerleader for your teams to push through to the end.
The skills you'll need at each FedRAMP Journey phase are:
Pathfinding:Ā
- Financial Planning & Analysis
- Executive Communication
- Requirements Analysis
- Resource Planning
Solution Building:
- Regulator engagement strategy execution/communication
- Project KPI monitoring
- Team enabler for outside expertise
- Internal business unit coordination
Assessment Preparation:
- Unplanned risk management and mitigation
- Team interview rehearsal preparation and coordination
- Cheerleader for GRC, Ops, and Security teams getting nervous and overwhelmed by the sheer number of details and stakes of the assessment
Vanaheim's course and consulting offerings prepare you for your unique journey, end-to-end, with step-by-step guidance.
What pitfalls and challenges can you expect?
As a leader, your role is to shepherd the company through FedRAMP approval. So what do you need to be aware of prior to each step of the process so that you can plan accordingly? The keys to success are building a multi-disciplinary team with the right expertise, and establishing a comprehensive and flexible plan.
Pitfalls
- Underestimating the complexity and breadth of authorization requirements, and process
- Risking loss of executive support if unexpected costs arise or if the timeline to authorization is prolonged due to unforeseen events
- Failing to allocate necessary technical and operational resources during the evaluation process, which could lead to non-compliance due to lack of supporting evidence
Challenges
- Planning reasonable scenarios for fiscal risk management and expectation setting without FedRAMP process expertise and context
- Balancing incorporation existing infrastructureĀ to reduce cost (ex: developed automation code investments) from existing offerings with the risk of FedRAMP assessment findings
- Maintaining stakeholder and partner engagement throughout the lengthy FedRAMP journey, particularly when pivots are required
VANAHEIM SECURITY HAS BEEN THERE
As a platform leader, a 3PAO partner, or a business partner Vanaheim's consultation value draws on experiencing every stakeholder role both internally and externally. Our courses capture this experience in a cost-effective self-paced learning environment. Questions are always welcome.
FedRAMP is hard. We make it easier.
See our leadership course bundles below tailored for this role in every phase of the FedRAMP journey.
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 a leader 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
- "Businesses positioned to sell to the U.S. Government"
- "Is FedRAMP authorization a nice-to-have or a need-to-have?"
Paid Tier Examples
- Foundations: "Authorization types: JAB vs Agency"
- Experiential Learning: "Getting started: positioning for sponsorship"