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Cloud Security
SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE PROVIDERS
of security and compliance, the more we end up with environments that are neither secure nor compliant. The solution to this is automation.
When security and compliance are an integrated, automated component of a cloud environment, they become more reliable, more consistent and less expensive.
Anitian has taken that idea and built a security and compliance platform that automates the deployment, configuration and certification of cloud environments. In about an hour, our platform deploys an entire cloud environment that is pre- engineered to meet compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, DOD SRG, PCI, CJIS and more. The platform then wraps a whole suite of security controls around a customer’s applications to dramatically accelerate the security and compliance process.
For example, Smartsheet, a well-known software-as-a-service company, already had many federal agency customers for its SaaS workflow management offering. However, it needed to obtain FedRAMP authorization while also moving its products
Andrew Plato
CEO, Anitian
and services into the cloud at the same time. Anitian helped Smartsheet shift its applications into Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud, implement all the FedRAMP security controls, document its entire environment and become audit-ready in 58 days. The company received its FedRAMP ATO a few months later.
Since then, Smartsheet’s federal business has grown significantly. This is an excellent case study where security and compliance were transformed from an impediment that slowed down business to an energizing catalyst that promotes growth and prosperity.
Andrew Plato is CEO of Anitian (anitian.com/fedramp- compliance-automation).
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