13 ways to a Faster ATO

Dale Bingham
3 min readJul 6, 2022

Automation is key to attaining an ATO for your RMF or FedRAMP systems and applications faster. With OpenRMF Professional and its latest features, you can use our compliance engine, vulnerability tracking, and reporting mechanisms to quickly see where you are, what you need to do, get compliant and then generate the documentation to prove it.

Get to a Faster ATO with OpenRMF Professional in key ways

Your ATO Achieved — Faster

OpenRMF Professional by Soteria Software helps you achieve your ATO faster in these key ways:

  1. A single source of truth for all compliance data.
  2. Combine SCAP scans (DISA, OpenSCAP, Nessus, Rapid7 Nexpose), CIS scans (Nessus Audit Compliance), custom checklists (OpenRMF Professional) and patch vulnerability / full audit scans (Nessus, Rapid7 Nexpose) into a full system package with all relevant data easily.
  3. Easily generate detailed compliance status in seconds.
  4. Inherit controls and get notified when the controls change.
  5. Automatically notify your team of all pertinent updates and changes to the system package.
  6. Allow teammates to only update their checklists and patch scan vulnerabilities.
  7. Use our API to automate all the data ingest (SCAP scans, CIS scans, checklists, .Nessus, .XML from Rapid7) and reporting.
  8. Have all of this done securely through a web browser.
  9. Have a single pane of glass for your SCAP scans, CIS scans, software scans, container scans, and patch vulnerability scans that relate to your ATO.
  10. Automate your POAM against patch vulnerabilities, checklist vulnerabilities, compliance statements, and other vulnerabilities (software scans, container scans, etc.) while tracking history.
  11. Track your checklist vulnerability trends for ATO and continuous monitoring after.
  12. Track your patch / OS vulnerability trends for ATO and continuous monitoring after.
  13. Generate your SSP, SAR, and RAR in seconds from the most up-to-date information across your entire system package.

Benefits of a Faster ATO Through Automation

There are a few things to point out on getting your ATO in a faster way, while maintaining your team, your processes, and your sanity!

  1. Saving massive amounts of money and time
  2. Faster time-to-market for applications
  3. Reduced stress and workload through automating extremely manual tasks
  4. Ability to do more meaningful work, like actually hardening your devices and applications!
  5. Ability to take on other projects, including helping other customers with their ATOs
  6. Consistent, repeatable results
  7. Training new team members on the RMF and FedRAMP processes in a repeatable way — reduces the learning curve
  8. There are more — you should brainstorm for your own team and personal health and well-being what those would be

Free Evaluation — See For Yourself

Evaluate OpenRMF Professional for yourself and see how it can help you and your team achieve a faster ATO. With repeatable results. Using the same team. With a LOT LESS stress on them!

You can download a prebuilt OVA to quickly stand up a virtual machine on your computer or network. Or you can download the installation and set it up yourself on your own equipment.

We give you a 30-day license that fully unlocks the power of OpenRMF Professional. Check out our documentation, blogs, YT videos or even schedule a demo or quick conversation on your use cases and questions.

You have nothing to lose and everything to gain! Time is one of our most valuable resources.

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Dale Bingham

CEO of Soteria Software. Developer on OpenRMF. Software Geek by trade. Father of three daughters. Husband. Love new tech where it fits. Follow at @soteriasoft