Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

FedRAMP has strict requirements for the security of the companies looking to earn their certification. Among the many requirements you need to navigate are tests from your C3PAO, simulating malicious actors and common threat vectors. In order to understand what you need to do to pass, it’s worth going over what penetration testing is, what red teaming is, what the scope of FedRAMP pen testing includes, and what the rules of engagement encompass.

Here at Ignyte, we talk a lot about the major governmental cybersecurity frameworks like FedRAMP and CMMC or the international framework ISO 27001. What we don’t talk about as much – but which is no less important – are smaller-scale or more limited frameworks. SOC is one such framework, and it’s extremely important for those who need it. There’s also a lot of confusion surrounding it, both in business and as a layperson. What is SOC for?

While we talk a lot on this site about the US Government’s various cybersecurity frameworks, like FedRAMP and CMMC, there’s one significant framework that deserves just as much attention: ISO 27001. ISO 27001, being an ISO standard, is an international framework for cybersecurity divorced from any one country’s government.

Seeking a FedRAMP authority to operate is a critical part of any cloud service looking to work with the government in an official capacity. It’s required if you are going to handle controlled unclassified information on behalf of the government or its contractors, and since the requirements trickle down, you don’t even necessarily have to be part of the government’s prime contractors to need your ATO.