There are two paths to gaining your RMF accreditation and achieving ATO—the traditional way where you throw money and manpower at it for weeks on end, and the automated compliance way where you dramatically reduce your risks, effort and costs.

Technology and bad actors are growing increasingly more sophisticated, so more and more agencies are automating what they can to simplify the RMF process; achieve NIST and STIG compliance; gain ATO and continuous ATO (cATO) status; and move faster, more efficiently and more securely than ever before.

The manual approach to STIG compliance is slow and expensive and does not achieve the goal of making the DoD more secure. These days, STIGrelated efforts are buried deep within thousands of DoD and program budgets, making it more difficult to appreciate the significant dent that STIG automation can have on the billions of dollars that the DoD spends annually on STIG compliance. With simple, proven tools out there such as ConfigOS, there is no reason the DoD shouldn’t be in full, uptodate and continual compliance at all times. And they certainly shouldn’t be delaying any security updates or new technologies along the way.

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