Operationalizing cATO Moving Beyond Point-In-Time Authorization

Federal agencies are under pressure to deploy software faster and make real-time risk decisions — but authorization processes are still built for point-in-time assessments. As cATO expectations grow, manual RMF execution isn’t keeping pace.

This webinar explores why cATO breaks down under today’s approval cycles and what it takes to make continuous authorization work in practice — shifting from document-driven compliance to an operational capability built on automation, compliance as code, and continuous controls monitoring.

What attendees will learn:

• Why manual RMF processes and point-in-time authorization struggle to support cATO
• How automated pipelines with built-in compliance processes enable continuous authorization
• The role of compliance as code, policy as code, and continuous controls monitoring in scaling cATO
• What this shift means for deploying technology faster while maintaining security and authorization rigor