Introduction Call and Initial Thoughts

Participants

Nathan S. Case | Security Advocate @ DataDog

• Background doing DOD work at AWS for about five years
• Helped many customers go to FedRAMP High and IL 4/5
• Worked a lot with DOJ/ATF regarding AWS services
• Looking to help more than anything else
• Presently talking to DOD leadership about some new programs to help with FedRAMP High sponsorships.

Julie Davila | VP, Global Field CTO Ops @ Sophos

• Diverse engineering background
• FedRAMP Moderate via DOJ with email startup
• Sponsorship obtained via prior relationships developed at a cyber gov contractor; owners were investors
• Noticing many CSPs starting to say “no thanks” to the fed market
• Met with Brian Conrad, who shared PMO ideas to make it easier to inherit controls from other compliance bodies and make it possible for CSPs to have one env instead “one for fed” and “one for everything else.”

Sara Mazer | Fed CTO @ LaunchDarkly

• Background in engineering
• Prev at MarkLogic as Dir of Civ Solutions
• Been mainly focused on fed, one of the first LaunchDarkly hires for gov programs
• One of the folks that convinced the board to go through FedRAMP
• It took three years internally to get to ATO