Federal DevSecOps Playbook
ATO in Days, Not Years
The Kubernetes Playbook for Continuous Federal Compliance. Automate your Authority to Operate with platform-based controls, machine-readable policies, and evidence on autopilot.
Executive Summary
Strategic Overview
The business case for platform-based ATO. Costs, timelines, and the path from fragmented compliance to continuous authorization.
Chapter 1
The Compliance Rosetta Stone
Map NIST 800-53 controls to Kubernetes primitives. Understand how platform capabilities directly satisfy security requirements.
Chapter 2
Machine-Readable Compliance
OSCAL, policy-as-code, and automated SSP generation. Move compliance from Word documents to version-controlled artifacts.
Chapter 3
Evidence on Autopilot
Automated evidence collection scripts, continuous monitoring, and real-time compliance dashboards for assessors.
Chapter 4
The 90-Day Sprint
Week-by-week execution plan to achieve ATO. From platform standup through assessment to authorization decision.
Chapter 5
The Authorization Briefing
How to brief leadership and AOs. Templates, talking points, and strategies for the authorization decision meeting.
Template
NIST-to-K8s Mapping Matrix
Complete mapping of NIST 800-53 controls to Kubernetes platform capabilities and evidence sources.
Template
OSCAL SSP Template
Machine-readable System Security Plan in OSCAL format, pre-populated with platform control implementations.
Template
Evidence Automation Scripts
Ready-to-run scripts for automated evidence collection, scanning, and compliance report generation.
Template
90-Day Sprint Planner
Week-by-week project plan with milestones, deliverables, and responsible parties for ATO achievement.
Modernizing Federal Authorization
14-slide executive briefing covering the case for platform-based continuous ATO. Includes stats, diagrams, comparisons, and a transformation roadmap. Full keyboard navigation and speaker notes.