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Use Case • Accelerated ATO

Get ATO sooner, and keep it through every release.

Before software can run on a government network, most teams spend months gathering security evidence by hand. Greymatter records who reached what, and when, from the day you install it. Your evidence builds itself while your systems run.

The ATO bottleneck

Cut the months between ready and approved.

An Authority to Operate (ATO) needs evidence that controls run on every service. Most teams gather that evidence by hand.

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The risk
Today
With Greymatter
Slow start
Teams spend months building security controls by hand before the review can begin.
Core controls are on the day you install. Your team skips months of building them.
Unencrypted traffic
One service on plain traffic becomes a finding that stalls the review.
Greymatter refuses unencrypted connections between services. Your team stops chasing services left on plain traffic.
Expiring certificates
A missed renewal takes a service down and breaks a control your assessor approved.
Greymatter issues and renews certificates for every service. No service goes down over a missed date.
Missed gaps
The assessor finds a service without a required control, and the review stops.
Greymatter lists each service that is missing a control. Your team fixes it before the assessor finds it.
Stale evidence
Screenshots and spreadsheets go out of date within weeks.
Print a control report from the live platform. It is current the day you print it.
Audit questions
Answering who opened a system takes days of pulling logs from several tools.
Greymatter records every request. One search answers the assessor's question.
Updates
A new release can restart the approval review.
The approved build stays pinned, and the log shows who changed what. Your update ships, and your approval holds.
One path to approval

From first install to a signed ATO.

Dana Ortiz leads security for a defense agency's personnel records system. Her mission team cannot use it until it has an ATO. Here is what happens, step by step.

01Build controls 02Assessment 03Continuous ATO 04Every network 05AI agents
Build controls

Controls running from day one.

Dana's team installs Greymatter once, on the cluster it already runs. No app is rewritten. Encryption, identity, and a request record run on every service. In the security plan, Dana cites FIPS 140-3 validated encryption (CMVP #5191) instead of building and testing her own. Post-quantum encryption is on by default.

Without Greymatter
Engineers spend months building and documenting encryption, identity, and logging while the mission waits.
With Greymatter
Those months come off the schedule, and her engineers stay on the personnel system.
Result
4 controls running. 0 hand-built.
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Already vetted. Listed in five categories.

Your contracting team finds Greymatter on the list. That shortens the vendor review, so your team starts on approval sooner.

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What each team gains

Less manual work, role by role.

An ATO pulls in program managers, security officers, engineers, and assessors. Today they all lose time to the same manual work. Here is what they get back.

PROGRAM MANAGER
Your system reaches the mission months sooner.
Today: the system waits on security work while the mission goes without it.
The ATO starts with the core controls already running. Explore the Platform Overview →
SECURITY OFFICER
Evidence that stays current on its own.
Today: you chase screenshots from each team, and they go stale before the review.
The Stoplight report reads the live platform and maps your controls to NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP, and the DoD Zero Trust Strategy. Nobody collects screenshots from each team. Explore Stoplight Measurement →
ENGINEERS
No code changes and no certificate tracking.
Today: feature work stops so the team can wire in controls and renew certificates.
Greymatter runs on the cluster you already run, and your apps need no code changes. Certificates renew on their own, so nobody tracks expiry dates. Explore Identity →
ASSESSOR
Who did what, in one search.
Today: a simple access question turns into days of log pulls.
Greymatter records requests and configuration changes with the person behind them. The answer is one search away. Explore Forensic Auditing →
Ready to cite
FIPS 140-3 validated (CMVP #5191), post-quantum by default
Cite the certificate in your security plan instead of validating your own encryption.
DoD Impact Levels 2 through 6+
Run one platform from public-facing systems to your most sensitive missions.
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Mapped to the NIST Zero Trust standard
Line up your system with the Zero Trust model federal agencies must adopt.
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Start with what you have

See which ATO controls you already have.

Install Greymatter free on a cluster you already run. See encryption, identity, and the request record running from the first day.

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Additional resources

Product Stoplight Measurement Learn More → Whitepaper Building Secure Software at Speed: Four Emerging DevSecOps Trends for Government Read the Whitepaper → Video Automation as the New Standard for Federal Zero Trust Watch the Video →
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Asked and answered

Accelerated ATO FAQs

Greymatter shortens the Authority to Operate (ATO), the approval a government agency gives before software can run on its networks. It turns on encryption, an identity for each service, and a request record from install. Your team builds and documents fewer controls, and the evidence records itself while systems run. One customer saw 62% faster audits.

Greymatter records every request with the person, the service, and the time. No setting turns the record off. Stoplight maps your controls to NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP, and the DoD Zero Trust Strategy. It lists any service that is missing a control, and it prints as a report. The report supports your assessment. It does not certify compliance.

Yes. With Greymatter, your team pins releases to approved versions, so the running build matches the approved one. Configuration changes go into a tamper-evident log with the name of the person who made them. Teams ship updates without restarting the full approval review.

Yes. Greymatter's cryptographic module is FIPS 140-3 validated (CMVP #5191), and post-quantum encryption is on by default. Agencies cite that validation when documenting encryption controls for an ATO. Greymatter supports DoD Impact Levels 2 through 6+.

Yes. Greymatter runs the same pinned release in the cloud, on premises, and on fully disconnected networks. It pulls images from a private registry you control. Greymatter records evidence the same way on every network, so teams do not rebuild it for new sites.