Stateramp

as a top target for cyber criminals, government must remain vigilant in protecting citizen’s most sensitive data. cloud security is a critical factor, as government has continue to move toward cloud-first services. in april 2020, a steering committee of government cios, cisos, and procurement and privacy officers joined industry leaders from cloud providers and cyber security assessing organizations to charter stateramp to bring together states to create a common method to verify cloud security. designed as a public/private partnership, stateramp was organized under the indiana nonprofit corporations act as a domestic nonprofit organization. stateramp strives to provide an efficient and cost-effective solution for verifying cloud service providers’ cyber security profile on behalf of state and local government. like fedramp, stateramp aims to simplify security by providing states and local government a standardized approach for protecting their data in the cloud, with a security f