FedRAMP is a U.S. government-wide risk management program established to support the Cloud-First Policy rolled out in 2011. The goal of the program was to provide a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services to help government agencies quickly migrate from old, unsecure legacy IT to secure, cost-effective, cloud-based IT. The intent was to both standardize and accelerate government agencies’ adoption of cloud solutions and ensure that all the providers they worked with met consistent security standards. The program was also intended to save expenses, time, and resources by employing a “do once, reuse many times” approach. Read more about FedRAMP