Problem: Defense software teams spend months on compliance rework for findings that could have been caught during development. Authorizing Officials’ (AO) teams chase manual evidence, perform redundant assessments, and wade through incomplete artifact packages, stretching ATO cycles to 18+ months at over $1M per system. As a consequence, mission owners receive outdated software and operate below their potential.
Solution: Ironmist is a continuous compliance platform that replaces manual, document-based ATO processes with automated compliance assessment and evidence generation built directly into the software delivery pipeline. Unlike traditional compliance tools that treat authorization as a separate, periodic activity, Ironmist embeds security controls from the first line of code through continuous monitoring as code changes - automatically producing the machine-verified evidence that AOs and assessment teams need, without slowing delivery.