FedRAMP Advisory Services

FedRAMP Compliance

Earning a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorization to operate (ATO) not only indicates a cloud service provider’s (CSP) ability to meet the federal government’s strict security standards but can also help unlock a significant revenue stream.

Leveraging this opportunity, however, requires navigating an intricate, highly prescriptive process that many CSPs underestimate resulting in delayed authorization, increased costs, and an overburdened team.

Expand your business opportunities and level-up your creditability as a CSP with FedRAMP services that can streamline the authorization process and accelerate your go-to-market strategy.

Leverage FedRAMP Advisory Expertise

Create a well-crafted FedRAMP security package that passes the required independent assessment with support from our experienced professionals.

Advisory offerings include:

Gap Analyses

Proactively identify areas of concern and document actionable solutions to address them through one-on-one interviews and collaboration with your SMEs to create a gap analysis report.

Documentation Development

Create high-quality implementation statements, policies, and plans that cover all FedRAMP requirements and meet FedRAMP standards using our in-house professionals’ skill sets.

Diagram Creation and Review

Correctly diagram your application to clearly depict the system while meeting FedRAMP standards with guidance and support from our professionals who can implement FedRAMP’s preferred diagram protocols.

Engineering Support

Navigate the rigors and rules for building secure FedRAMP environments by joining forces with our engineers who can assist your technical teams with cloud engineering and architecture support.

Assessment Support

Overcome assessment issues and keep your authorization process moving forward with insights and guidance from our experienced professionals.

FedRAMP 101 Preparedness

Prepare your organization to meet FedRAMP’s stringent reporting and compliance requirements with preparedness training led by our professionals.

Gap Analyses

Proactively identify areas of concern and document actionable solutions to address them through one-on-one interviews and collaboration with your SMEs to create a gap analysis report.

Documentation Development

Create high-quality implementation statements, policies, and plans that cover all FedRAMP requirements and meet FedRAMP standards using our in-house professionals’ skill sets.

Diagram Creation and Review

Engineering Support

Navigate the rigors and rules for building secure FedRAMP environments by joining forces with our engineers who can assist your technical teams with cloud engineering and architecture support.

Assessment Support

Overcome assessment issues and keep your authorization process moving forward with insights and guidance from our experienced professionals.

FedRAMP 101 Preparedness

Prepare your organization to meet FedRAMP’s stringent reporting and compliance requirements with preparedness training led by our professionals.

FedRAMP Assessment Services

Undergoing a rigorous FedRAMP assessment is a complex, thorough process where our assessors perform all the requisite tests against the system. As an A2LA-accredited third-party assessment organization (3PAO), Moss Adams conducts FedRAMP assessments for organizations ready to take the next step in the FedRAMP authorization process.

Assessment services include:

Readiness Assessment Reports (RAR)

Achieve FedRAMP Ready status on the marketplace by undergoing a pre-assessment to determine if your CSO is aligned with the key system functionalities and capabilities required for FedRAMP authorization. An indicator that the CSP is ready to undergo the FedRAMP authorization process, this assessment confers a preliminary status of FedRAMP Ready demonstrating the provider meets foundational requirements but isn’t yet fully authorized.

Initial Authorization Assessment

Designed for CSPs undergoing the FedRAMP authorization process for the first time, this assessment allows our expert assessors to guide you through all the testing requirements, evidence and artifact requirements, and documentation.

Annual Assessment

Once fully authorized, CSPs are required to submit an annual assessment, which tests one-third of the control baseline, in addition to other system updates and findings during the previous year’s continuous monitoring cycle.

Significant Change Request (SCR)

For CSPs contemplating potential system changes, this process helps you determine if the change qualifies as a FedRAMP SCR and helps incorporate the change into your continuous monitoring cycle.

Readiness Assessment Reports (RAR)
Initial Authorization Assessment
Annual Assessment
Significant Change Request (SCR)

Readiness Assessment Reports (RAR)

Initial Authorization Assessment

Annual Assessment

Significant Change Request (SCR)

For CSPs contemplating potential system changes, this process helps you determine if the change qualifies as a FedRAMP SCR and helps incorporate the change into your continuous monitoring cycle.

How the Assessment Process Works

Each assessment engagement follows FedRAMP’s prescribed testing protocols. Below is an overview of the process.

Analyze Documentation. Our FedRAMP professionals read and analyze your submitted documentation package.
Inventory Alignment. We match your inventory against detailed FedRAMP diagrams.
Perform FedRAMP Testing. Each cloud service offering undergoes FedRAMP-required manual, technical, penetration, and red team testing.
Create Risk Exposure Table & Security Assessment Report. After vulnerabilities or findings are solidified, we create a risk exposure table and security assessment report summarizing the specifics of each finding as well as risk level, and other information from testing.
Create Recommendation Report. Our independent 3PAO review and findings are compiled in a Security Assessment Report (SAR) with a recommendation to either issue or not issue an ATO or provisional ATO (P-ATO) or a continuance depending on the authorization path.

Extensive FedRAMP Advisory and Assessment Expertise

Deeply immersed in more than 30 industries, our professionals provide solutions specific to the nuances, challenges, and operations of the sector in which you work—while customizing plans to meet your unique needs.

Armed with a deep knowledge of and experience with all aspects of the FedRAMP authorization process, our professionals bring insights and guidance that can help you successfully earn a FedRAMP authorization while also identifying how to leverage the authorization across all areas of your business.

From gap analyses to technical testing, our subject matter experts can work with you to identify crossover with other frameworks—like HIPAA, ISO 27000, PCI, and SOC—that can reduce costs and ease the audit burden for your team. We also have extensive technical experience with the technologies and processes needed to support organizations undergoing FedRAMP authorization, such as cybersecurity, IT compliance, and internal audits.

Our one-firm approach allows your organization to tap into the full resources of our firm, integrating guidance and solutions related to other integral support areas including finance, tax, and audit concerns, technology services, and risk and IT compliance.