Why this matters
An expired ATO stops a mission system. Most programs do not fail RMF because their controls are wrong; they fail because evidence is scattered across teams, the POA&M drifts out of date, and nobody owns continuous monitoring once the authorization is signed. Reauthorization then becomes a scramble against a deadline that was visible three years out.
Our solution and results
We take systems through all six RMF steps and produce artifacts assessors actually accept — system security plans, security assessment reports, POA&Ms, and the evidence behind them, maintained in eMASS or whichever system of record your agency uses. Past the ATO we run continuous monitoring, so control drift is caught and closed between assessments instead of surfacing at reauthorization.
- 01Authorization packages built to the assessor's evidence standard
- 02SSP, SAR, and POA&M kept current rather than reconstructed
- 03Control inheritance mapped so shared services are not re-proved
- 04Continuous monitoring that closes drift between assessments
- 05Reauthorization handled as routine, not as a deadline scramble
- 06A traceable line from every control to the evidence satisfying it