The 20x Authorization Gap: What CSPs Risk Missing and What AOs Need to Ask (F12c)
Certification and an ATO are not the same event, and the distance between them is growing. FedRAMP 20x Phase 3 will bring hundreds of providers to market without the high-touch PMO support that FedRAMP may have provided in the past. What CSPs and federal authorizing officials (AOs) will find on the other side is an assurance model in which the assessment standard validates accuracy rather than effectiveness, security floors at the Moderate tier are recommendations rather than requirements, and some requirement categories present in FedRAMP Rev. 5 disappear in 20x. The talk addresses both sides of the table, giving CSPs an understanding of the specific gaps their agency customers may surface as additional ATO requirements and giving AOs a concrete understanding of what 20x does and does not provide compared with the familiar Rev. 5 construct.