FedRAMP Professional Services

Building a compliance program for each Cloud Service Provider is more than just checking off boxes. NicheITS takes a holistic approach that engages all organizational team members and every process. NicheITS empowers CSP’s to optimize their security posture by providing an experienced and independent position when assessing and validating Management, Operational ,and Technical control requirements. Engagement through hands-on workshops, gap assessments, ATO documentation support, and policy development; NicheITS will drive organizational stakeholders to prioritize the risks and establish a plan of action supporting your goals to comply with frameworks such as CMMC, FedRAMP, ISO27001, SOC2 and now StateRAMP.

FEDRAMP EXPERIENCE
NicheITS brings an exceptional level of in-depth background knowledge to our StateRAMP/FedRAMP advisory practice. Executive leadership and staff members have experience in development of over 100+ NIST 800-53 agency (GSS/Application) ATO packages with another significant number of CSP FedRAMP ATO packages. NicheITS executive leadership also brings unique skillset in our practice having been the managing director to several Cloud Service Providers, therefore bring background experience from the CSP and Advisory perspective.

STREAMLINING ATO PACKAGE DEVELOPMENT

NicheITS leverages several in house developed sharepoint and confluence sites that provide turn key StateRAMP/FedRAMP/ CMMC site deployments which include a pre developed comprehensive set of Policies, Procedures and pre defined organization documents needed to accelerate any organizations NIST 800-53 compliance framework deployment. Contact sales to request a demo of our confluence site templates.

DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

NicheITS host its own in house multi tenancy HA cloud environment enabling our teams to build secure images in sandboxed and isolated environments. ensuring security and compliance with image development.

FedRAMP Professional Services

Advisory Services

NicheITS provides expert advisory services that empower Cloud Service Providers (CSP) everything that is needed to pass assessments and obtain/renew their Authority-To-Operate (ATO). By leveraging NicheITS advisory services, CSP’s receive the guidance required to enhance and/or refine organizational security documentation and procedures to meet requirements.
NicheITS advisory services can involve various CSP Information Systems (IS) and service models to ensure that timelines are defined and executed on, organizational deficiencies in system architecture and policies are mended, understanding of FedRAMP controls and procedures is achieved, annual audits and ATO renewal process is smooth with dedicated continuous monitoring, all while following NicheITS’ methodology proven to reduce time and cost.
NicheITS conducts readiness or gap analysis to determine completion of deliverables and project timelines for FedRAMP ATO package submissions.

GAP Analysis Services

NicheITS facilitates pre-assessments in order to provide organization’s an enhanced level of understanding of what is required to obtain FedRAMP Authorization. Prior to the assessment, the pre-assessment is engaged on by trained FedRAMP professionals that customize their expertise to your organization’s needs.
The NicheITS Pre-Assessment follows FedRAMP assessment requirements, while focusing on a subset of controls selected specifically for the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) system. The selected 800-53 controls are based on the FedRAMP critical controls with agreement from the CSP.
This approach provides a cost effective, value added approach for assessing the readiness of a CSP for FedRAMP Authority-To-Operate (ATO). NicheITS offers pre-assessment services to evaluate assessment readiness and provide a timeline of FedRAMP Authorization.

ATO Package Development

FedRAMP requires, for all federal agencies and their respective Cloud Providers, to submit documentation outlining their cloud computing capability and associated security measures that are implemented. This Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process will include a Security Plan which will provide a description of the system including, but not limited to, its purpose, location, and technical capabilities.
Additionally, the Security Plan will also contain implementation statements addressing how the system is compliant with the controls listed within the 800-53. Alongside the Security Plan, the A&A package will also include an organizational Contingency Plan/Disaster Recovery Plan, Configuration Management Plan, Risk Assessment, and Security Assessment Report.

Technical Engineering Services

NicheITS staff are selected not only for their significant background in compliance understanding, but for having significant past performance with strong, hands-on, engineering background.
NicheITS engineering staff come from enterprise environments where AWS, Azure, and Google GCP, and on-Prem. Vmware, and OpenStack solutions are common. NicheITS engineering services empower clients to tackle the most challenging architecture, implementation and operations requirements for cloud-based applications, products and platforms on public, private and hybrid environments.

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