Compliance FastTrack and ATO Services for Google Cloud

Accelerate Your Journey to Compliance & Authorization to Operate

At Dito, our goal is to simplify the time consuming and nuanced ATO process by providing the guidance and support needed at every step. With our Compliance FastTrack & ATO services, we help you achieve and maintain your authorization with confidence and efficiency.

Dito’s Comprehensive Service Options

Dito’s Compliance FastTrack & ATO services are designed to make the path to authorization as streamlined as possible. Whether you’re beginning your journey with a Compliance Bootcamp or need full support to manage the entire compliance process, our team is here to guide you every step of the way.

Compliance Bootcamp

Kickstart your compliance journey with our Discovery & Compliance Bootcamp, a multi-day accelerator where we equip your team with the knowledge to move through the process with confidence. Through guided workshops and tailored educational sessions, your team will gain insights into the ATO process, including:

  • key security controls and documentation needed,
  • strategies for developing and organizing documentation efficiently,
  • and best practices for achieving initial readiness.

Cybersecurity Quick Discovery

Ideal for organizations at the beginning of their journey, our Cybersecurity Quick Discovery will help establish your compliance roadmap with prioritized recommendations of the top problems to address.

This engagement offers a high-level gap analysis and requirements overview to determine your unique needs and readiness level, positioning your organization to confidently move forward with a tailored action plan.

End-to-End ATO Services

For those needing comprehensive support, our scalable services guide you through every stage of preparation. Our team works alongside you to build a tailored package of key resources and staff augmentation to ensure you meet the program’s rigorous requirements.

  • Short term expertise from our “ATO Special Forces” team
  • Creating and submitting documentation
  • Ongoing staff augmentation to tackle the hardest challenges

Achieving and Sustaining Your ATO Compliance

Compliance is not a one-time event but an ongoing commitment to maintaining a strong security posture. Once you achieve authorization, Dito’s team can remain by your side with continuous monitoring services, helping you adapt to new requirements, conduct regular assessments, and demonstrate ongoing compliance – or provide you with the tools and training to take this in-house. Either way, we want to ensure that your systems remain secure, compliant, and ready for federal scrutiny at any time.

Navigating the Compliance Journey

For organizations needing to meet the rigorous security and compliance standards (FedRAMP, DoD IL4+, CMMC, NIST, PCI-DSS, CSF 2.0), Dito’s Compliance FastTrack & ATO Services offer a range of tailored options designed to accelerate your path to authorization while enhancing your organization’s compliance posture. From initial discovery and expertise-on-demand, to full-scale documentation and continuous compliance monitoring, Dito’s ATO experts can support you through every phase of the journey, ensuring efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable compliance.

Achieving Authorization to Operate (ATO) is a comprehensive process that requires careful planning, coordination, and a structured approach to meet federal security standards. At Dito, we support your organization at every stage in the process, with services tailored to help you build the strong, compliant framework needed for a successful authorization.

Here’s what the roadmap to ATO typically looks like:

Launch Strategic Planning & Advisory

An ATO requires a well-defined compliance strategy. In this initial phase, we work closely with your team to develop a strategic plan that aligns with your business goals and federal requirements. This may include consulting on system architecture, data security, risk mitigation, and the creation of critical documentation like the System Security Plan (SSP), policies, and procedures.

ATO Readiness Assessment

A critical step to determine if your cloud environment is prepared for a full assessment, the readiness assessment is usually conducted by an accredited Third-Party Assessment Organization (3PAO). In this stage, Dito ensures your organization meets key readiness criteria and can proceed confidently to the full compliance assessment.

Gap Analysis & Pre-Assessment

Before a formal assessment, we perform a gap analysis to identify any areas requiring adjustment or enhancement. This pre-assessment offers a roadmap to compliance objectives, detailing tasks and actions needed to align with security baselines and setting the foundation for a successful final assessment.

Full Security Assessment

This phase includes a comprehensive security evaluation, encompassing vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and a review of your environment against the targeted security controls. Our team guides the documentation and compliance activities, ensuring the final Security Assessment Report (SAR) and supporting documents are prepared for submission to the authorizing federal agency.

Continuous Monitoring

Achieving an ATO is only the beginning. Ongoing compliance with established standards requires continuous monitoring to maintain your ATO status. We support your organization with monitoring tools, incident handling, and regular reviews to ensure your system remains secure and compliant, ready for periodic reassessments.

Why Choose Dito?

Navigating the process can be challenging, with its complex requirements for security, documentation, and continuous monitoring. Dito’s team brings been-there-done-that experience to help you build, assess, and refine your strategy and readiness.

Our services are designed to provide the precise support your organization needs, whether you’re establishing an in-house compliance program or require full staff augmentation through the entire compliance journey.

Proven Expertise

With a track record of guiding organizations to successful ATOs, Dito’s expert advisors provide hands-on, practical strategies tailored to your organization’s unique environment and goals.

Customized Engagements

Dito offers a variety of engagement levels, from Compliance Boot Camps for self-led teams to end-to-end support in preparing for readiness and submitting documentation.

Strategic Starting Points

Our recommended Compliance Bootcamp and Cybersecurity Quick Discovery provide essential gap analysis and high-level customer needs assessment—ideal starting points for most organizations.

Dito’s expert ATO teams are built with a depth of bench designed to handle problems without going down rabbit-holes, staying on schedule, on budget, & avoiding expensive Change Orders.

Dito is a Google Cloud Premier Partner and past winner of the Security Partner of the Year.  We are experts in multi-cloud Inheritance and able to advise on business, technical, political, and security matters for a successful ATO Project.

Dito is proud of our track record as the only partner that has delivered on time with a 100% Customer Satisfaction Score in every single Google PSO engagement.

Dito uses grounded cybersecurity that doesn’t just check a box. Our processes start with why and end with real-world recommendations to secure your systems to your ATO goals.

You may not always like it, but Dito will not sugarcoat issues or let a customer go down a primrose path.

All Dito ATO Experts are CONUS-resident, US Citizens qualified in numerous cybersecurity frameworks including FedRAMP, DoD, & CMMC as well as PCI-DSS, CSF 2.0, NIST, & HIPAA.

Compliance FastTrack and ATO Services for Google Cloud

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