FedRAMP
Consulting Services
Navigate the complexities of federal cloud compliance with strategy, technical depth, and hands-on guidance from RKON—helping you move faster, sell sooner, and scale smarter.
Unlock a New Sales Pipeline for Your Product
Are you ready to sell to U.S. government agencies? Partner with RKON and tap into the FedRAMP Marketplace—because when we commit, we follow through.
Most commercial systems need refactoring to meet stringent and nuanced FedRAMP standards. Start with cloud builders who understand the stakes and structure your system for success from day one. With accelerator packages honed from years of delivery, our experienced team will help you achieve your Authorization to Operate (ATO) faster. Unlike other FedRAMP consultants, we place an equal focus on cloud, security, compliance, and code. The typical compliance analyst won’t help you build your Kubernetes clusters, and the typical cloud engineer won’t know an identifier from an authenticator. You need RKON.
Unlock a New Sales Pipeline for Your Product
Are you ready to sell to U.S. government agencies? Partner with RKON and tap into the FedRAMP Marketplace—because when we commit, we follow through.
Most commercial systems need refactoring to meet stringent and nuanced FedRAMP standards. Start with cloud builders who understand the stakes and structure your system for success from day one.
With accelerator packages honed from years of delivery, our experienced team will help you achieve your Authorization to Operate (ATO) faster. Unlike other FedRAMP consultants, we place an equal focus on cloud, security, compliance, and code.
The typical compliance analyst won’t help you build your Kubernetes clusters, and the typical cloud engineer won’t know an identifier from an authenticator. You need RKON.
Why Pursue FedRAMP Cloud Compliance?
Is your federal sales team pushing to get your commercial products FedRAMP authorized?
Were you approached by a U.S. government agency seeking to use your product?
Is your board looking at the federal market to hedge against volatile commercial sales? Then you’ve come to the right place. We’ve got you covered with FedRAMP consulting.
What Sets Our FedRAMP Consultants Apart
We Are Builders, Not Auditors.
RKON provides end-to-end FedRAMP consulting and engineering services. We guide you through the preparation and launch of your FedRAMP program and platform.
When the time is right, you’ll need to enlist an official auditor to obtain your FedRAMP Authorization. We proudly partner with Schellman, the leading FedRAMP 3rd Party Assessment Organization (3PAO).
No System is Too Big or Too Small.
RKON has led some of the world’s largest FedRAMP implementations for dozens of customers, starting before the cloud even provided security logging!
We have also enabled small, nimble teams with great products sought by the government to complete their ATO packages. We’ve shepherded teams through ATO preparation for LI-SaaS, Moderate, High; through Agency and JAB; and DoD IL4 and IL5.
One Size Doesn’t Fit All.
So-called “FedRAMP-in-a-Box” solutions are sold as a standardized solution to companies of all sizes. These packages are awesome for the firms who sell them. They get a standardized, repeatable process to support their customers, and margins for the software they resell.
They’re not so awesome for customers who get stuck paying millions in ongoing licensing fees and operations costs. At RKON, our FedRAMP consulting services are tailored to your individual business and product needs.
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Targeted Services for Every Step
READINESS REVIEW
Build Your Business Justification and Get Top-level Buy-in.
For business executives and sales leaders
We work with you to assess your company’s readiness to support FedRAMP. The broad scope covers the sales opportunity landscape, internal security program fidelity, current product platform, and supporting capabilities.
We use a detailed, curated data set to find your optimal path to the FedRAMP Marketplace. In just three weeks, we deliver a business justification ready to brief your executive team to set expectations for the journey to achieving your first FedRAMP Authorization.
FEDRAMP BOOTCAMP
Understand the Path for Your Organization.
For technical and GRC team members
Learn how FedRAMP unlocks new revenues and understand the commitment to attain and maintain an authorization to sell your solution to the U.S. government.
Even for teams with experience, this tailored boot camp is the best first step to ensure your whole team starts this journey with a common understanding of the process and the commitment to obtaining and maintaining your ATO.
We’ll discuss critical decisions that will impact your business for years to come. In three weeks, you’ll walk away with a knowledgeable workforce and a FedRAMP Program Charter tailored to your situation and your objectives.
FEDRAMP BOOTCAMP
Understand the Path for Your Organization.
For technical and GRC team members
Learn how FedRAMP unlocks new revenues and understand the commitment to attain and maintain an authorization to sell your solution to the U.S. government.
Even for teams with experience, this tailored boot camp is the best first step to ensure your whole team starts this journey with a common understanding of the process and the commitment to obtaining and maintaining your ATO.
We’ll discuss critical decisions that will impact your business for years to come. In three weeks, you’ll walk away with a knowledgeable workforce and a FedRAMP Program Charter tailored to your situation and your objectives.
FEDRAMP SYSTEM DESIGN
Develop a Compliant Target System Architecture.
For technical and GRC team members
Once everyone appreciates the depth and breadth of the FedRAMP journey from the Boot Camp, it’s time to examine the architecture—current and end state. Think of this as the first-layer blueprints to guide your build.
Our FedRAMP consultants work iteratively with your team to develop a target architecture that meets all compliance requirements. We also map out the solution for each required technical control, a key piece expected by your assessor.
The outputs from this engagement are a notional Authorization Boundary Diagram, a Technical Design Document, and a Security Controls Matrix.
FEDRAMP ATO LAUNCH
Construct Your System and Prepare for Audit.
For technical and GRC team members
Output from the FedRAMP System Design engagement informs this phase. RKON engineers work with your technical leaders to deploy your system and integrate your workloads.
Throughout the engagement, our project manager ensures quality, schedule, cost, and scope to align with agreed-upon timelines and milestones.
This collaborative engagement yields a turnkey FedRAMP-compliant environment, all required diagrams, and the setup of your continuous monitoring systems.
FEDRAMP ATO LAUNCH
Construct Your System and Prepare for Audit.
For technical and GRC team members
Output from the FedRAMP System Design engagement informs this phase. RKON engineers work with your technical leaders to deploy your system and integrate your workloads.
Throughout the engagement, our project manager ensures quality, schedule, cost, and scope to align with agreed-upon timelines and milestones.
This collaborative engagement yields a turnkey FedRAMP-compliant environment, all required diagrams, and the setup of your continuous monitoring systems.
FEDRAMP ATO SUPPORT
Get Expert Guidance at Every Step.
We’ll assign an expert advisor to coach and guide you through the official FedRAMP Authorization process. We’ll lead you through the preparation and authorization phases, and help you clearly represent the value of your offering.
Our dedicated FedRAMP consultant will help you develop required plans and documentation, brainstorm on technical solutions and options, and, when required, research questions or tap into the expertise of our broader RKON team.
CONTINUOUS MONITORING
Let the Experts Maintain Your ATO.
Sometimes a new concept to commercial companies, Continuous Monitoring (“ConMon”) is a FedRAMP requirement to ensure the ongoing security of the cloud service offering.
ConMon includes some familiar technical tasks such as scanning systems and reviewing logs, but it also includes some administrative tasks specific to FedRAMP such as producing and tracking Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) that must be reviewed with the agencies on a regular basis.
RKON offers this ongoing service to maintain your FedRAMP cloud compliance in accordance with your ATO, and we ensure you are ready for your annual assessments.
CONTINUOUS MONITORING
Let the Experts Maintain Your ATO.
Sometimes a new concept to commercial companies, Continuous Monitoring (“ConMon”) is a FedRAMP requirement to ensure the ongoing security of the cloud service offering.
ConMon includes some familiar technical tasks such as scanning systems and reviewing logs, but it also includes some administrative tasks specific to FedRAMP such as producing and tracking Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) that must be reviewed with the agencies on a regular basis.
RKON offers this ongoing service to maintain your FedRAMP cloud compliance in accordance with your ATO, and we ensure you are ready for your annual assessments.
The RKON FedRAMP
Consulting Approach
We Start with Sales.
Preparing for FedRAMP requires a substantial upfront investment. While the upside is massive, getting started can be stressful for a company with eyes on the budget.
RKON starts the conversation with your federal sales team to strategize on timing, tackling long-lead requirements, and designing a crawl-walk-run approach to make the most from measured investments to align with the realities of your opportunity pipeline.
We Bring Deep Cloud Expertise.
RKON is an independent boutique provider who supports FedRAMP for AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Most of our FedRAMP consultants have the corresponding professional-level certifications, some in all three clouds. We also partner with all three. This breadth is rare in this space.
With some of our team boasting over a decade in public cloud experience, we’re ready to dive into your design for VPCs, containers, serverless workloads, and CI/CD at a depth that would humble most “compliance firms.”
We Minimize Operational Costs Starting NOW.
In the scope of a multi-year federal SaaS deal, the authorization phase is a relatively short period. After achieving the authorization, FedRAMP has substantial requirements for ongoing monitoring and maintenance. That’s when the real costs hit.
We’re big fans of letting your cloud provider take the brunt. Our cloud architects work at depth with your team to review your architecture and highlight opportunities to avoid long-term operational costs through thoughtful use of cloud-managed services.
We Go Ugly Early.
It’s not like SOC 2, and you need to understand the commitment. We’ll tell it like it is, so you can make informed decisions.
Our advisory begins with our FedRAMP Boot Camp, which is especially useful if your team is new to FedRAMP. Our FedRAMP Boot Camp includes delivery of our FedRAMP workshops and a tailored Program Charter to help you plot your course. Our experts run the Boot Camp, and we’ve been honing this content through years of delivery and experience. Our customers typically use the Boot Camp to inform a go/no-go decision with their leadership team.
We Speak Plainly.
Federal IT is chock full of acronyms and confusing terms. Supporting commercial teams through federal compliance is our superpower, as we recruit FedRAMP consultants who speak both languages in a way your teams can understand. Based on customer testimonials, this is the top reason companies choose RKON.
“This FedRAMP Boot Camp is as sobering as it is incredibly informative.”
SaaS Sales Leader
Start Your FedRAMP Journey
Meet with our industry-leading FedRAMP consultants to chart a clear, compliant path to the Marketplace—built for long-term success.
Preparing Your Company for FedRAMP
If you’re just getting started, check out our whitepaper for answers to common early questions:
— What approach would bring us the fastest return on investment?
— How fast can we get an ATO?
— What is needed to maintain FedRAMP?
— Which federal agency (buyer) would be the best first customer for us?
— What kind of federal data would my product process?
— What are staffing considerations?
— What does our company need to know about FedRAMP?
