Gartner® Report: FedRAMP Demystified

How can government agencies, leveraging cloud transformation and hybrid work scenarios for efficiency, engage in their digital transformation without sacrificing security? The answer is Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) – an independent review process based on security standards and controls. FedRAMP is complex, and so is cybersecurity. As per Gartner, to make educated strategic decisions on how to proceed as a security risk management leader, it’s important to understand the FedRAMP process and a few key concepts: the players, the available cloud security levels and controls, the Authority to Operate (ATO) paths, and the pros and cons. This Gartner® report lays out the key facts that security risk management (SRM) leaders need to understand FedRAMP-related cloud options.