Bastion · 20x Independent Validation Support

For organizations preparing for or working through independent assessment and certification review.

Independent validation puts your service's security assertions under scrutiny. We help your team prepare the evidence, explain the implementation, and respond when reviewers need more detail. Bastion brings advisory and engineering support through the agreed assessment and certification-review scope, working alongside your team and the separate independent assessor.

Service Components:

  • Evidence & Package Preparation Review the certification materials for completeness, consistency, and traceability before independent assessment begins. Organize KSI evidence, supporting records, service descriptions, and repository access so reviewers can follow the implementation and understand how each assertion is supported.
  • Technical Walkthroughs & Interview Preparation Prepare the people who operate the service to explain the architecture, measurement methods, evidence sources, and exception-handling processes. Walk through the actual implementation and supporting records together. Make unresolved assumptions and ownership gaps visible before the formal review.
  • Independent Assessor Coordination Help organize evidence requests, access arrangements, technical clarifications, and review dependencies. We support the independent assessor's work while remaining your advisor and implementation partner. The assessor retains responsibility for its independent conclusions and required assessment outputs.
  • Finding Response & Certification Review Support Triage findings, coordinate technical fixes, update affected materials, and prepare supporting evidence for review. Help your team answer certification-review questions and organize its responses. The cloud service provider owns its application and official submissions; certification decisions remain with FedRAMP.

A credible package connects claims to current evidence and evidence to the systems that produce it. We help your team make that connection clear, work through questions, and close preparation gaps with practical engineering support.

Includes:

  • Independent validation readiness review
  • Technical walkthroughs and interview preparation
  • Finding triage and remediation support
  • Certification-review response support
  • Evidence organization and traceability checks
  • Independent assessor coordination
  • Updated evidence and material preparation
  • Operational transition planning

Support follows your selected class. Classes B and C require independent assessment; a FedRAMP-specific independent assessment is optional for Class A. bladestack.io provides assessment support, not the independent assessment itself. Certification does not replace an agency’s separate authorization decision.