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In 2019, GAO told 16 agencies to build a repeatable way to track cloud savings, and 14 have closed the recommendation with dashboards, spreadsheets, and tools. In June 2026, 17 of 24 agencies still said controlling cloud costs required changes in how they manage IT. The trackers are where a cloud contractor's billing data ends up.
By Avalon tracks the assessment methodologies, evolving threat models, and testing requirements shaping federal vulnerability management. For the full service breakdown, see Assessment & Testing.
Assessors, Authorizing Officials and CISA's new remediation clocks all ask the same thing of a vulnerability assessment: proof. This roadmap maps testing to the controls and directives it supports, sets out what stays with the government, and lists the ROE and SOW terms that keep the evidence usable.
By Avalon tracks the regulatory shifts, ATO timeline trends, and continuous authorization developments shaping federal accreditation programs. For the full service breakdown, see Authorization & Accreditation.
GAO made 35 cloud security recommendations to Agriculture, DHS, Labor, and Treasury in 2023. Twenty-seven are closed, and seven of the eight still open concern SaaS systems. GAO's status notes show which evidence closed a recommendation and which documents fell short, and primes can read that as a deliverables list.
By Avalon tracks the cost governance, architecture patterns, and platform shifts shaping federal cloud and infrastructure decisions. For the full service breakdown, see Cloud & IT Infrastructure Services.
In 2019, GAO told 16 agencies to build a repeatable way to track cloud savings, and 14 have closed the recommendation with dashboards, spreadsheets, and tools. In June 2026, 17 of 24 agencies still said controlling cloud costs required changes in how they manage IT. The trackers are where a cloud contractor's billing data ends up.
By Avalon tracks the zero trust mandates, identity governance shifts, and patch management practices shaping federal security architecture decisions. For the full service breakdown, see Security Architecture & Implementation.
FedRAMP's vulnerability rules become mandatory for every certified cloud offering on December 7, 2026, the same day agencies start working to CISA's BOD 26-04 timelines. Offerings that fall short go on corrective action plans with notice to all agencies, then lose certification after March 7, 2027.
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