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Security outcomes that hold up under independent scrutiny.
DASATECH serves federal agencies, defense organizations, government contractors and cloud service providers. We cover gap assessment, documentation, penetration testing, remediation, authorization and the continuous monitoring that follows.
Organizational qualifications
Credentials that change who is allowed to assess you.
ISO/IEC 17020 accredited
Our assessment and inspection work is delivered under an internationally recognized standard for impartiality and technical competence. An external body assessed it against that standard.
A cleared facility
DASATECH holds a facility clearance, so we can support classified government programs and sensitive national security work that most compliance firms cannot be cleared to touch.
Hands-on across every major platform
Microsoft Azure Government, AWS GovCloud, AWS Commercial, Google Cloud Platform and hybrid environments, for architecture work and assessment alike.
Capabilities
Nine services, one discipline: evidence that holds up under review.
Every engagement produces artifacts an assessor, an agency reviewer or a prime’s supply-chain team can act on without a second round of questions.
FISMA Assessment & Authorization
Full RMF lifecycle support covering categorization, control selection, assessment, and the SAP, SAR and POA&M that carry an authorization decision.
Read more 02FedRAMP Advisory
Security package development and authorization strategy for cloud service providers, including FedRAMP High.
Read more 03FedRAMP Assessment Services
Independent assessment for commercial cloud service providers and government agencies, delivered under our accredited inspection capability.
Read more 04DoD Impact Level Accreditation
Assessment, accreditation and compliance support for IL4, IL5 and IL6 systems under the DoD Cloud Computing SRG.
Read more 05Penetration Testing
External, internal, web application, API and cloud configuration testing, plus social engineering and retest validation.
Read more 06NIST SP 800-171 Compliance
DFARS 252.204-7012 compliance, CUI scoping, defensible SPRS scoring and the documentation to support it.
Read more 07HIPAA / HITECH Assessment
Security Rule risk analysis and safeguard testing for organizations that handle electronic protected health information.
Read more 08GRC & Security Documentation
Program design and implementation, policies and procedures across all control families, and third-party audit preparation.
Read more 09Multi-Cloud Security Architecture
Secure architecture, integration and security engineering across Azure Government, AWS GovCloud, AWS Commercial and GCP.
Read moreSample output
What an assessment actually tells you.
A control-family view of where the evidence supports your claims and where it does not, with the weak families named before anyone else names them.
Example values, shown to illustrate the format of the output rather than results from any engagement.
Why DASATECH
Assessors who have also had to write the package.
Most delays trace back to documentation rather than security. A control narrative that does not match the architecture. A POA&M with no remediation path. Evidence that proves the wrong thing.
We have worked both sides of that table for federal agencies and their contractors. That is why our reports get accepted, and why our timelines are shorter than the rework cycle you are trying to avoid.
- Independent. We do not sell the tooling or the remediation labor we assess, so findings are not a sales channel.
- Framework-fluent. One system usually answers to several frameworks at once; we map the overlap so a control is tested once and reused.
- Written for the reviewer. Deliverables follow the templates and language the receiving agency, prime or assessor already reads.
- Senior-led. The consultant who scopes your engagement is the consultant who performs it.
- Honest about gaps. A finding you learn from us is cheaper than the same finding from a 3PAO.
Frameworks
What each regime actually asks of you.
Federal Information Security Modernization Act
FISMA obliges federal agencies (and the private organizations operating systems on their behalf) to run their systems under the NIST Risk Management Framework. In practice that means categorizing the system, selecting and implementing a control baseline, having those controls independently assessed, and obtaining an authorization decision from an Authorizing Official.
DASATECH runs the cycle end to end, or joins a stalled one and finishes it.
FISMA SA&A serviceRMF steps
- Prepare (scope, roles, system boundary)
- Categorize (FIPS 199 and SP 800-60 information types)
- Select (SP 800-53 Rev. 5 baseline and tailoring)
- Implement (controls and control narratives)
- Assess (SP 800-53A testing, SAR and POA&M)
- Authorize (risk decision by the AO)
- Monitor (ongoing ConMon and reauthorization)
Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program
FedRAMP is the standardized authorization path for cloud services sold to the federal government. The bar is high and the package is large: a system security plan against the Rev. 5 baselines, more than a dozen supporting plans, and an independent assessment before any agency will consider sponsorship.
We build that package, run the readiness review that finds the problems before the 3PAO does, and support you through the audit and into continuous monitoring.
FedRAMP advisory servicePackage components
- FIPS 199 categorization and boundary definition
- System Security Plan and control implementation summary
- Policies and procedures across all control families
- ISCP, CMP, IRP, rules of behavior, user guide
- Privacy threshold and impact analysis
- Continuous monitoring plan and monthly reporting
DFARS 252.204-7012 and NIST SP 800-171
Any contractor whose systems process, store or transmit Covered Defense Information or CUI carries a standing obligation to implement NIST SP 800-171 and to report an assessment score in SPRS. That obligation has been contractual for years and has not moved. It applies whether or not anyone comes to check.
We assess the 110 requirements, correct the score, build the SSP and POA&M, and get you ready for whichever assessment type your contract calls for.
NIST SP 800-171 serviceWhere contractors lose points
- CUI boundary never formally defined
- SPRS score self-reported without evidence behind it
- Policies written generically, not to the 14 families
- MFA and FIPS-validated cryptography partially deployed
- No audit log review actually performed
- POA&M items with no owner and no date
HIPAA Security Rule and the HITECH Act
Organizations that create, receive, maintain or transmit electronic protected health information must implement administrative, physical and technical safeguards, and must perform an accurate risk analysis of where that ePHI lives. That risk analysis is the single most commonly cited deficiency in enforcement actions.
We test the safeguards against real evidence and give you a report that shows a regulator, a customer or an acquirer exactly where you stand.
HIPAA assessment serviceAssessment scope
- Administrative safeguards and workforce controls
- Physical safeguards and facility access
- Technical safeguards, encryption and audit controls
- Business associate agreements and flow-down
- Breach notification readiness
- ePHI inventory and data flow mapping
Our own tooling
We build AI-native tools for regulated work, and we run them ourselves.
Two platforms, both born from our own delivery work. AssessIQ executes assessments across FedRAMP, FISMA, DoD SRG and FedRAMP 20x. Proposal iQ finds federal and state opportunities, analyzes the solicitation and drafts the response.
In both, the expert keeps every judgment call. What comes out of the schedule is the reading and the cross-referencing around it.
Engagement model
Fixed scope. Named deliverables. A date.
We scope from the contract clause or the framework requirement, not from an hourly estimate. You get the list of documents you will receive, who produces each one, what we need from your team, and when it lands.
Tell us what the contract requires. We’ll tell you what it takes.
A 30-minute scoping call is usually enough to size the gap, name the deliverables and give you a realistic date for authorization.