LaunchPad

LaunchPad is a compliance acceleration framework that helps SaaS companies enter regulated markets faster, with less overhead, more flexibility, and full ownership over their infrastructure.

Built for full lifecycle support, LaunchPad takes your offering from discovery and gap analysis all the way through remediation, assessment, authorization, and continuous support.

Our solution combines infrastructure design and deployment, documentation development, expert advisory, and more.

Why LaunchPad:

Achieving compliance is more than checking boxes: It is about aligning your infrastructure, documentation, and operations to meet the highest security standards without compromising speed or control.

We help you go to market faster and with confidence by delivering:

Audit-Aligned Infrastructure

LaunchPad uses a pre-configured AWS Landing Zone and compliance engineering principles, so you are ready for assessments, not just from the beginning, but all the time. Security is baked into your architecture, which means you are always ready to prove compliance.

Embedded Compliance Expertise

Every LaunchPad deployment includes access to our elite advisory team, trusted by the most demanding cloud service providers: government contractors, fast-growing SaaS companies, and public sector leaders alike. We support every phase: from architecture design and artifact development to 3PAO coordination and post-ATO sustainment.

Ownership and Flexibility

Unlike rigid DevSecOps platforms that force you into a proprietary stack, LaunchPad keeps you in control. Its modular architecture adapts to your application and tooling preferences, ensuring long-term flexibility.

What You Get:

Core Components:

• Pre-configured AWS Landing Zone

• Infrastructure-as-Code templates and deployment support

• CI/CD configuration guidance

• Logging and vulnerability scanning integrations

• SIEM and monitoring setup (tool-agnostic)

• Support for developing FedRAMP-aligned documentation

• 3PAO and agency coordination

Optional Services:

• Continuous Monitoring strategy and support

• POA&M ownership and update support

• Reassessment planning

• Submission packaging strategy

• GRC platform alignment and integration guidance

How It Works:

LaunchPad is delivered through a structured process combining infrastructure setup and advisory support. We work closely with your team to adapt to your specific architecture, goals, and compliance gaps.

Discovery & Gap Analysis: We map your current environment and identify compliance gaps.

Build & Deploy: Deploy secure infrastructure with modular components and third-party tooling integrations.

Prepare & Assess: We help you capture artifacts, prepare documentation, and get assessment-ready.

Support & Sustain: Post-launch, we support continuous monitoring and reassessments through optional services.

The 38North Difference

At 38North Security, we have helped hundreds of organizations navigate complex security and compliance challenges. We do not just understand the FedRAMP process; we shaped it.

LaunchPad reflects the best of what we have learned as one of the most trusted advisory and engineering teams in the space. It is not just about getting you across the finish line. It is about building a system that works today, at audit, and long after your ATO is in hand.

Built on a pre-configured AWS Landing Zone and designed to align with FedRAMP Moderate requirements, LaunchPad provides a secure, assessment-ready foundation to deploy your applications, customizable to your architecture and backed by proven engineering and compliance guidance.

Unlike turnkey DevSecOps platforms that limit control, LaunchPad gives you a foundation you own, built for velocity, security, and long-term flexibility.