FedRAMP 20x. Engineered for your cloud. Built to prove it.

Build the capabilities, evidence, and operating discipline your FedRAMP 20x journey requires. bladestack.io brings advisory, implementation engineering, and managed services together, beginning with our application-delivered FedRAMP 20x Readiness Review. From KSI-aligned architecture and machine-readable evidence to independent validation support, we work alongside your team to prepare for FedRAMP Program Certification and sustain it.

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Why bladestack.io?

Your architecture. Your evidence. Our engineering.

FedRAMP 20x asks your organization to demonstrate how security works across your cloud service. That takes engineers who understand the environment, advisors who can translate the requirements, and evidence that stands up to independent review. We bring those disciplines together, from the first readiness decision through ongoing operations.

Our team works through the details with yours: where the service boundary begins, who owns each responsibility, how a Key Security Indicator is demonstrated, and what happens when a measurement exposes a gap. We design the architecture, build the capabilities, organize the certification materials, and connect evidence to the systems that produce it.

We serve on your side of the engagement. Our Readiness Review is an advisory gap assessment; independent assessment and certification decisions remain with the appropriate independent assessor and FedRAMP. You get practical preparation and hands-on support with clear accountability.

Differentiators

Same Mission. 20x Approach.

Application-led readiness. KSI-aligned engineering. Evidence built into operations. Here is how that changes the work.

Readiness You Can Work With

Our FedRAMP 20x Readiness Review delivers the gap assessment through a SaaS application with machine-readable information and import/export workflows. Architecture, requirements, evidence gaps, and remediation priorities become a structured starting point for the work ahead. Use the review as a standalone engagement or carry its findings directly into implementation.

Engineers Who Build the Capabilities

KSI alignment has to survive contact with your production environment. Our engineers work through identity, network boundaries, logging, cryptography, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment workflows with your team. We translate readiness findings into scoped implementation work, then help connect the resulting security capabilities to evidence you can explain and reproduce.

Machine-Readable From the Start

We structure the work around the applicable 20x requirements and the evidence needed to demonstrate them. Machine-readable certification materials, traceable evidence references, and human-readable explanations are developed together. Your package reflects the actual service, its responsibilities, and its operating practices, with a clear path from each assertion to its supporting evidence.

Evidence That Moves With Your Service

Cloud services change. We engineer evidence collection, validation, and publishing workflows around those changes. Trust repository development supports a FedRAMP-compatible trust center, with appropriate access and programmatic sharing. Defined evidence ownership, refresh expectations, and exception handling help keep your security story current as your environment evolves.

On Your Side Through Validation

We prepare your team for independent scrutiny and help resolve the questions it raises. Evidence walkthroughs, technical interviews, assessor coordination, and finding response are part of the service. We provide advisory and implementation support; a separate independent assessor performs independent validation when required by your class or included in your chosen path. The distinction stays clear throughout the engagement.

Defined Scope. Clear Ownership.

The Readiness Review gives us a technical basis for planning the engagement. We define deliverables, responsibilities, dependencies, and acceptance criteria before implementation begins. Firm-fixed-price engagements are available for defined scopes, with time-and-materials support where the work requires flexibility. You can see what we own, what your team owns, and how changes will be handled.

Service Lines

Choose your blade.

Start with readiness. Add the engineering, advisory, validation support, and managed operations your team needs. Five service blades cover the full 20x journey.

FedRAMP 20x Readiness Review

For organizations evaluating 20x or preparing to begin implementation.

Our FedRAMP 20x Readiness Review is your gap assessment, performed through an application. It is the standard first step in our 20x approach and is also available as a standalone service. We review your cloud service against the applicable requirements, evaluate the evidence behind its security capabilities, and identify the work needed to move forward.

  • Scope & Path Alignment Review your service architecture, federal use case, information types, dependencies, and customer responsibilities. Establish the working service boundary and appropriate certification class and path before investing in remediation. Where a 20x path does not fit, the review makes that decision visible early.
  • KSI & Requirement Gap Analysis Evaluate the applicable Key Security Indicators and supporting 20x requirements against how your service operates today. Distinguish implemented capabilities from missing capabilities, weak evidence, and unresolved responsibilities. Readiness has to account for the full applicable profile, including reporting and data-sharing obligations.
  • Machine-Readable Review Workflows Use the Readiness Review SaaS application to organize the assessment in a structured, machine-readable form, with import and export support. The review connects technical findings with the information your team needs for planning and follow-through. Our advisors perform the review with your team and explain what the results mean.
  • Remediation & Evidence Roadmap Translate findings into prioritized architecture changes, capability build-out, evidence collection, and operating-process improvements. Identify owners, dependencies, and decisions that affect readiness. Plan for evidence maturity and historical measurements where the selected class requires them, alongside the implementation work itself.

Bring your actual environment and the evidence you already have. The outcome is a practical readiness baseline and a roadmap your engineering and leadership teams can use. Continue into implementation with us or use the standalone review to plan your next steps.

Includes:

  • Application-delivered gap assessment
  • Import/export workflows
  • SI and applicable requirement mapping
  • Prioritized remediation roadmap
  • Machine-readable review information
  • Evidence and automation gap analysis
  • Technical findings and next-step recommendations

Capabilities Build Out

For organizations that need engineering capacity to turn the readiness roadmap into working capabilities.

A readiness finding is only useful if someone can implement the solution. Our engineering team works alongside yours to build the security and operational capabilities your 20x program depends on. We take the prioritized roadmap into architecture, infrastructure, configuration, and deployment work, with evidence generation considered throughout the implementation.

  • KSI-Aligned Architecture & Landing Zones Design the service boundary, landing zone, network segmentation, identity model, and shared responsibilities around the selected 20x profile. Make dependencies and inheritance explicit. Architecture decisions connect to the security outcomes your service must demonstrate and the evidence your team will maintain.
  • Security Capability Implementation Build or improve identity and access controls, logging, vulnerability management, configuration management, encryption, and incident-response integrations. Enable SIEM, host and container protections, and appropriate use of FIPS-validated cryptographic modules. Implementation is scoped to your technology stack and the gaps identified in readiness.
  • Infrastructure-as-Code & Delivery Workflows Develop repeatable infrastructure and configuration workflows that can be reviewed, versioned, and operated by your team. Integrate security checks and evidence outputs into CI/CD where appropriate. Keep the relationship between approved changes, deployed resources, and their security configuration visible.
  • Remediation Engineering & Technical Handoff Provide hands-on support for architecture gaps, configuration weaknesses, and findings identified during preparation or independent assessment. Validate the implemented change, capture supporting evidence, and update the associated operating guidance. Handoff includes the responsibilities and technical context needed to maintain the capability.

Engage the Enjinia Blade Division for a defined implementation effort or bring in Bitstream Merc engineering support for focused work. The scope follows the technical need, whether that is a landing zone build, an evidence integration, or a remediation sprint.

Includes:

  • KSI-aligned architecture design
  • Security stack deployment and configuration
  • Infrastructure-as-code development
  • Remediation engineering
  • Code and configuration review
  • Landing zone and boundary engineering
  • Identity, network, and cryptographic implementation
  • CI/CD security integration
  • Operating guidance and engineering handoff

FedRAMP 20x · Advisory & Implementation

For organizations that need a technical partner to coordinate the full certification preparation effort.

We connect the readiness findings, implementation work, and certification requirements into one operating plan. Our advisors and engineers develop service-specific materials, guide technical decisions, build the trust repository, and automate evidence workflows. Your team gets a clear line from the selected requirements to the service architecture, the implementation, and the evidence supporting it.

  • Architecture & Responsibility Design Refine the service boundary, data flows, dependencies, and allocation of provider and customer responsibilities. Translate applicable KSI and profile requirements into implementation decisions and measurable evidence needs. Keep architecture diagrams and service descriptions aligned with the deployed environment.
  • Certification Materials Development Develop the applicable Certification Package Overview, Security Decision Record (SDR), service descriptions, and supporting policies and procedures. The SDR connects implementation decisions, KSI measurements, verification, validation, and supporting artifacts. Prepare human-readable materials and JSON that follows the applicable FedRAMP schemas. Your team validates the accuracy of the service information; we build and organize the materials.
  • Trust Repository Development Build the evidence repository and sharing workflows that support a FedRAMP-compatible trust center. Organize certification materials, evidence references, access controls, and programmatic access around the applicable requirements. Make it practical for authorized reviewers to find the right material and understand its relationship to the service.
  • Continuous Evidence Automation Engineer pipelines that collect security data from the relevant systems, associate it with applicable KSIs and requirements, and publish usable evidence. Define collection methods, refresh cadence, historical retention, review responsibilities, and exception handling. Automate repeatable work while preserving the human judgment needed for interpretation and corrective action.
  • Program Coordination & Change Alignment Coordinate technical owners, implementation dependencies, evidence readiness, and assessor preparation. Track how service changes affect the boundary, supporting materials, and evidence. Help your team prepare the information needed for its interactions with the independent assessor, FedRAMP, and federal customers.

he result is a connected preparation effort: service-specific architecture, working capabilities, understandable certification materials, and evidence workflows your team can continue to operate. Build-out provides the implementation capacity; advisory keeps that work aligned with the certification objective.

Includes:

  • KSI-aligned architecture and responsibility design
  • Certification Package Overview support
  • Service descriptions and supporting documentation
  • Trust repository and trust center implementation
  • Evidence ownership and operating procedures
  • Boundary and data-flow diagrams
  • Security Decision Record development
  • Machine-readable certification materials
  • Continuous evidence pipeline engineering
  • Certification preparation and coordination

bladeRAMP20x · Managed Services for FedRAMP 20x

For organizations that need operational capacity inside their own service boundary.

bladeRAMP brings platform engineering, security operations, continuous monitoring, and infrastructure reliability into your boundary. Use it to build the operational foundation during preparation and sustain it after certification. The service supports both FedRAMP 20x and Rev5, with evidence, reporting, and assessment support aligned to the path your cloud service follows.

Service Lines:

  • GENJI · FedRAMP Continuous Monitoring (ConMon) Security operations, threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management, and infrastructure protection. HANZO brings SIEM integration, host-based IDS/IPS, container security, and environment hardening into the operational scope. Cryptographic implementation uses FIPS-validated modules where required, with the configuration and operational evidence needed to support review.
  • HANZO · 24/7 Security Operations (SecOps) 24/7 threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management, and infrastructure protection. Full SIEM integration, host-based IDS/IPS, container security, and FIPS-validated hardening.

Platform Components:

  • Platform Build The foundational deployment: landing zone architecture, security stack enablement, network segmentation, zero-trust remote access, and environment hardening. We build around your boundary and the selected FedRAMP requirements, establishing an infrastructure foundation your security, compliance, and engineering teams can operate and maintain.
  • SRE Infrastructure ite reliability engineering for your service boundary. Infrastructure operations, patching, availability management, configuration upkeep, and operational support keep the environment running. SRE work connects changes and maintenance to security responsibilities and the evidence needed to demonstrate the service's operating condition.

Select the operational capabilities that fit your team, from GENJI ConMon support to a coordinated combination of Platform Build, HANZO, GENJI, and SRE. We define the shared responsibilities, integrations, and service scope with you so day-to-day operations support your certification commitments.

Includes:

  • In-boundary platform build and enablement
  • HANZO 24/7 security operations
  • Vulnerability and remediation tracking
  • Annual assessment preparation
  • 20x or Rev5 alignment
  • GENJI continuous monitoring
  • SRE infrastructure operations
  • Evidence, OCR, and vulnerability reporting support
  • Customer and agency deliverable support
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Our Approach

From readiness to sustained certification.

Our 20x approach begins with a FedRAMP 20x Readiness Review. We use that application-delivered gap assessment to establish the baseline, then carry its findings into capability build-out, certification materials, evidence automation, and independent validation support. Operations and evidence maturity are planned from the start.

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FedRAMP 20x Readiness Review

Your gap assessment, delivered through an application.

We begin by understanding the service you are taking to the federal market. Our advisors review the architecture, working boundary, responsibilities, and applicable requirements, then evaluate the security capabilities and evidence you already have. The Readiness Review SaaS application organizes the review in machine-readable form with import/export workflows.

The review establishes a practical baseline for planning. It separates capability gaps from evidence gaps, identifies dependencies, and helps your team prioritize the work that determines readiness. It is available as a standalone engagement and is the standard first step for our 20x delivery approach.

  • Service scope, boundary, and responsibility findings
  • KSI and applicable requirement readiness analysis
  • Machine-readable review information with import/export
  • Evidence, automation, and operating-process gaps
  • Prioritized remediation and implementation roadmap

The readiness baseline carries into the next phase so implementation begins with a shared understanding of the work.

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Architecture & Capabilities Build Out

Turn the readiness roadmap into working security capabilities.

We translate the review findings into architecture decisions and scoped engineering tasks. Define the service boundary and responsibility model, design the landing zone, and implement the identity, network, logging, vulnerability-management, cryptographic, and deployment capabilities the service needs.

Your engineers can lead implementation with our guidance, or our team can provide hands-on build-out. Evidence requirements shape the design from the beginning, including how measurements will be generated, reviewed, retained, and connected to the applicable KSIs.

  • KSI-aligned architecture and data-flow diagrams
  • Provider, customer, and inherited responsibility mapping
  • Prioritized security capability implementation
  • Infrastructure-as-code and deployment workflow improvements
  • Measurement design and evidence collection plan

We align build-out with your technical constraints and delivery priorities, then validate the implemented capabilities with the people who will operate them.

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Certification Materials & Evidence Automation

Connect the service, its security assertions, and the evidence behind them.

We develop the service-specific certification materials and build the workflows that keep them useful. Prepare the Certification Package Overview, Security Decision Record (SDR), and other materials required by the selected profile. Connect implementation decisions and KSI measurements to verification, validation, and supporting evidence. Maintain the applicable FedRAMP-schema JSON alongside clear human-readable explanations.

Trust repository development supports a FedRAMP-compatible trust center with appropriate sharing and programmatic access. Evidence pipelines collect and organize measurements, preserve the history needed for review, and surface exceptions for accountable owners. Automation has operating procedures and review responsibilities of its own.

  • Certification Package Overview and Security Decision Record
  • Machine-readable data and human-readable context
  • KSI assertions with traceable evidence references
  • Trust repository and trust center workflows
  • Continuous evidence collection and publishing pipelines
  • Evidence refresh, retention, and exception-handling procedures

Readiness depends on both working capabilities and sufficient evidence. We plan the collection period and validation milestones around the requirements of your selected class.

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Bastion · Independent Validation Support

Prepare the team. Support the review. Work through the findings.

We help prepare your certification materials, evidence access, technical walkthroughs, and operating teams for the independent assessment applicable to your selected class and path. During the review, we coordinate evidence requests and technical clarifications, support interviews, and help your team explain how its implementation meets the applicable requirements.

When findings arise, we work with the responsible owners on remediation, supporting evidence, and material updates. We help your team prepare clear responses for assessment and certification review. The independent assessor owns its assessment conclusions; the provider owns its application and official submissions.

  • Evidence and package readiness checks
  • Technical interview and demonstration preparation
  • Independent assessor coordination
  • Finding response and remediation engineering support
  • Updated certification materials and evidence
  • upport for provider-led certification-review responses

Our engagement scope establishes the support available through review and the handoff into ongoing operations. FedRAMP makes the certification decision, and agencies retain their authorization responsibilities.

Certified. Keep the Evidence Working.

Security operations and current evidence continue after certification.

Certification creates an ongoing operational commitment. Your service changes, vulnerabilities emerge, evidence ages, and customers need current information. We help you maintain the capabilities, reporting, assessment preparation, and data-sharing practices applicable to your service.

Continue with your internal team, add targeted engineering and ConMon support, or use bladeRAMP for defined managed operations inside your boundary. The operating model follows your responsibilities and the requirements of your certification path.

  • ConMon Advisory Services current evidence, remediation tracking, applicable OCRs and vulnerability reporting, and annual assessment preparation
  • bladeRAMP Managed Services Full-stack compliance operations. Security monitoring, continuous compliance, and a team that already knows your boundary.
  • Bitstream Merc Engineering Support Services Ad-hoc technical resources when you need hands-on-keyboards remediation, architecture changes, or implementation work.
  • APEX · Authorization Expansion boundary updates, new services and regions, dependency changes, multi-service planning, and reassessment needs

For 20x, keep certification materials, evidence, and ongoing reports current. For Rev5, bladeRAMP aligns its delivery to the applicable Rev5 obligations. Your operational support remains connected to the path your service actually follows. For growth, we evaluate the class, path, and any additional framework requirements before defining an expansion plan.

Ready to Talk 20x?

Tell us about your cloud service, your federal market goals, and where you are today. We will discuss the applicable 20x path, the capabilities and evidence you need, and how a FedRAMP 20x Readiness Review can give your team a practical starting point.