Taking Civic Cloud's SaaS product up the eight-step FedRAMP Moderate authorization staircase — strategy and sponsor, boundary and inventory, control implementation, SSP documentation, 3PAO assessment, remediation and POA&M, authorization decision and continuous monitoring, each with its artifact; an authorization boundary whose first draft missed the CI/CD pipeline, the logging pipeline and an admin tool; a POA&M of forty open items, thirty owned only by “Engineering”, a dozen overdue and three closed without verification; an agency ATO kept alive by continuous monitoring; and six findings fixed, from a sponsor who was never real and controls wrongly marked inherited to unvalidated encryption, untestable narratives, a cherry-picked scan and an incident reported eleven days late.

CY-SENIOR-072Senior Level · FedRAMP Authorization Program

FedRAMP & Government Cloud Authorization Program — The Authorization Staircase

A senior GRC program course that runs a FedRAMP Moderate authorization end to end. Climb the authorization staircase - eight steps: Strategy & Sponsor, Boundary & Inventory, Control Implementation, Documentation (SSP), 3PAO Assessment, Remediation & POA&M, Authorization Decision, and Continuous Monitoring - building a strategy memo, a boundary diagram, a control implementation matrix, an SSP, a 3PAO-ready assessment package, a POA&M, an authorization decision brief, and a continuous-monitoring plan, grounded in NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, NIST SP 800-37, FedRAMP program guidance, StateRAMP, and the DoD Cloud Computing SRG. Four hands-on activities in every lesson, built from real program artifacts, not shell commands.

16 hours8 chapters32 lessons225 activities8 labs

What you'll learn

Build a credible authorization strategy, categorize the system honestly, and secure a genuine sponsoring agency.
Draw an accurate authorization boundary, map data flows, and control boundary creep over time.
Implement the NIST 800-53 Rev 5 Moderate baseline with FedRAMP parameters, owned and evidenced control by control.
Risk-rate findings honestly, run the POA&M to verified closure, and earn and sustain the ATO through continuous monitoring.

Price:৳10,000