Achieving and maintaining compliance for federal systems.
The NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) provides a mandatory, structured process for managing security and privacy risk for federal information systems. Implementing RMF is essential for government agencies and contractors handling federal data to achieve an Authority to Operate (ATO).
Experienced assessors with deep history supporting DoD, civilian agency, and FedRAMP authorization packages.
Maverc offers comprehensive RMF support services, guiding organizations through each step of the RMF lifecycle — Categorize, Select, Implement, Assess, Authorize, and Monitor. Our experts help you categorize systems, select and implement controls, conduct assessments, authorize systems, and establish continuous monitoring programs, ensuring compliance with FISMA and NIST standards (such as SP 800-53 and applicable DISA STIGs).
Each engagement is scoped to your environment — these are the building blocks we draw from.
Our team has served as both 3PAO assessors and ISSO-side defenders. We know exactly what evidence holds up under independent review — and we build packages to that standard from day one.
We don't write SSP narratives that don't match the system. Our engineers implement the control, capture the evidence, and only then describe it — so what's on paper is what's actually running.
We work natively in the GRC tooling your agency or sponsor already uses. No re-keying, no parallel spreadsheets, no surprises at the AO briefing.
Our 800-53 evidence is cross-mapped to CMMC, FedRAMP, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 — collect once, reuse everywhere your authorization scope grows.
The single most consequential decision in your RMF journey is impact categorization — get it wrong and you over-engineer (burning budget) or under-engineer (failing assessment). We facilitate categorization workshops grounded in real mission impact analysis, not checkbox guesses.
Most SSPs fail because the narrative describes a control that isn't actually implemented. We pair every control response with tested evidence, inheritance citations, and parameter values — so when the SCA arrives, the package speaks for itself.
Continuous monitoring is where most authorization packages decay. We build ConMon programs around automated evidence collection, monthly POA&M cadence, and annual assessment refreshes — keeping your ATO defensible through its full term.
A proven, repeatable methodology aligned to PTES, OWASP, NIST 800-115, and MITRE ATT&CK.
Clear, executive-grade artifacts your team, your auditors, and your customers can actually use.
From a focused point-in-time test to continuous offensive coverage — pick the model that fits your maturity.
Targeted support to unblock a stalled authorization
Programs with an existing package that needs to cross the finish line.
End-to-end RMF execution from Prepare through Authorize
New systems pursuing a first-time ATO or major reauthorization.
Keep your ATO defensible across its full term
Authorized systems that need sustained compliance without standing up an internal team.
Define the system boundary, complete FIPS 199 categorization, and tailor the appropriate 800-53 Rev. 5 baseline with required overlays (Privacy, CUI, High-Value Asset, etc.).
Engineer the technical, operational, and management controls. Author the SSP with control responses that match real implementation and inherited control evidence.
Conduct the independent SCA, deliver the SAR and POA&M, support the AO authorization decision, then operate continuous monitoring through the system lifecycle.
The RMF (NIST SP 800-37 Rev. 2) consists of seven steps: Prepare, Categorize, Select, Implement, Assess, Authorize, and Monitor. Maverc supports every step end-to-end or as targeted assistance.
All U.S. federal agencies must follow the RMF for their information systems under FISMA. Contractors operating systems on behalf of agencies, FedRAMP cloud service providers, and DoD contractors handling federal data are also required to comply.
An ATO is the official management decision issued by an Authorizing Official (AO) to authorize operation of an information system and explicitly accept the residual risk based on the implemented controls and assessment results.
FISMA requires federal agencies to implement information security programs. The NIST RMF — built on NIST SP 800-37, 800-53, 800-53A, and 800-60 — is the mandatory framework agencies use to meet those FISMA requirements.
Yes. Our senior assessors regularly perform independent SCAs and produce Security Assessment Reports (SARs) that hold up to AO and IG scrutiny. Independence requirements are honored — we don't assess controls we engineered.
Yes. We author and maintain authorization packages directly in the GRC tooling your agency or sponsor uses, including eMASS for DoD, Xacta 360, RegScale, and CSAM for civilian agencies.
For a Moderate-impact system with a reasonable starting baseline, expect 4–9 months from Prepare to ATO. High-impact systems, FedRAMP authorizations, and packages with significant remediation can run 9–18 months.
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