Aquia cATO+

What you know of continuous authority to operate (cATO) — plus some

Across the DoD and FedCiv, there is a need to move at the speed of mission while ensuring systems comply with NIST and FISMA requirements. While standard cATO implementations have improved upon traditional ATO processes, they often fall short in addressing the significant documentation burden that creates impediments to modern system development.

Aquia cATO+ addresses this challenge by adding crucial, customized documentation automation.

  • Custom, vetted automations for OSCAL-based system security plan generation reduces SSP creation from weeks to seconds.

  • Pre-vetted implementation statements accelerate compliance documentation with over 70% of implementation statements ready to go.

  • Manual assessment processes are transformed into automated verification procedures.

  • Compliance artifacts are systematically reused across systems and environments.

Security that’s baked in vs. bolted on — empowering developers to focus on active risk reduction vs. documentation exercises.

Aquia cATO+ leverages custom workflows that establish automated security checks and real-time security impact analysis of development changes. We also integrate tools for static and dynamic code analysis, dependency checking, SBOM management, and container scanning to ensure continuous compliance and rapid vulnerability detection across our customers' environments.

Aquia cATO+ leverages:

  • Infrastructure as code

  • CI/CD pipelines

  • Configuration as code

  • Automated security gates

  • Continuous monitoring

  • Automated assessments

Ready to automate your continuous authorization?

cATO+ establishes your compliance framework. cATO Bridge automates it continuously.

Aquia cATO Bridge is an OSCAL-native compliance automation engine that connects directly to your cloud environment, normalizes raw security data into control evidence, and routes it automatically to the GRC platform you're already using. No manual translation. No stale snapshots. Nearly 80% automated control inheritance against NIST 800-53.

  • Real-time authorization posture: Live dashboards reflect your actual environment, updated continuously, not at the next audit cycle

  • Automated evidence collection: Raw data from your CI/CD pipeline, cloud infrastructure, and security tools mapped to controls automatically

  • One-click POAM generation: What used to take a senior ISSO half a day takes a single click, returning 300+ hours annually

  • GRC-agnostic: Routes compliance data to CSAM, ServiceNow, Archer, RegScale, or your platform of choice

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