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Federal GRC Engineering

Engineering compliance into federal infrastructure. OSCAL, SCAP, STIGs, eMASS, and automated control assessment.

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Federal GRC Engineering

Federal DevSecOps Compliance: Integrating Security Controls into CI/CD Pipelines

Federal DevSecOps investment has grown to multi-billion-dollar annual outlays over the past decade. Behind those figures sits a compliance gap that program offices have not closed: most agencies treat Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) as...

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Federal GRC Engineering

Continuous ATO (cATO): The Practitioner’s Implementation Guide

Two federal agencies received Authorization to Operate (ATO) packages for similar cloud-hosted applications in the same fiscal year. The first agency ran the standard process: System Security Plan (SSP) drafted over eight months, Information System...

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Federal GRC Engineering

OSCAL Explained: The Machine-Readable Compliance Standard Reshaping Federal GRC

Federal compliance documentation practice has not changed materially in twenty years: security professionals write System Security Plans (SSPs) by hand, auditors read them by eye, and agencies process authorization packages the same way they processed...

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The Authority Brief

One compliance analysis per week from Josef Kamara, CPA, CISSP, CISA. Federal and private compliance, written for practitioners.