Our Approach / Overview

As a Systems Integrator (SI) or Managed Service Provider (MSP) in the Federal space, leveraging Hyperscalers/Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) for your workloads presents unique challenges related to cost, security, and scalable architectures. These challenges intensify as you scale. Karthik Consulting’s one-time assessment service offers comprehensive visibility into your cloud posture across multiple dimensions, enabling you to stay focused on your core business priorities. While standards compliance posture is the focus of this offering, Karthik Consulting also offers cloud (CloudOps), cost (FinOps), security posture (SecOps) and Well-architected framework assessments. Karthik Consulting leverages Corestack Assessments to assess your cloud compliance posture with respect to the following standards;

• CIS AWS 2.0 - Center for Information Security Amazon Web Services Foundations 2.0
• FedRAMP Moderate - Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, Moderate
• FedRAMP High - Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, High
• NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 - National Institute of Standards and Technology Revision 5
• SOC 2 - System and Organization Controls Type 2: Trust Services Criteria

Value Proposition

• Karthik Consulting is uniquely positioned to support the Federal sector with one-time assessments since our solution is deployed in AWS GovCloud mitigating data security concerns for Federal customers. Note: Our solution can also be deployed within the Federal Customer’s authorized boundary and is ready out of the box for continuous posture management.
• Assessment results makes it easier to accomplish compliance to standards since they provide visibility into the current compliance posture early on and enables alignment among all stakeholders.
• Karthik Consulting assessments offers several assessment frameworks out of the box, allows the Customer to create custom assessment frameworks, comes with Enterprise scalability to handle high volumes of assessments and is a simplified assessment workflow.
• Beyond the assessment framework, our engagement is backed by years of Cybersecurity experience that will support you throughout the lifecycle including onboarding, assessment, report review and remediation recommendations.
• Proven experience implementing and maintaining DevSecOps platforms across several agencies within the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), etc.

Key Activities / Process

• Identify the scope of compliance assessment.
• Establish contractual agreement to kick-off the one-time assessment engagement.
• Initiate the onboarding process with the Customer.
• Conduct the assessment, once all pre-requisites are met.
• Develop a comprehensive cloud compliance report.

Deliverables

• Comprehensive cloud compliance report 
• Prioritized recommendations for Remediation: Detailed guidance on addressing identified issues

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