The Challenge: Flock Safety, a public safety technology company operating in over 5,000 cities, faced a monumental task: achieving federal compliance for their "Falcon" camera system. Traditionally, gaining a FedRAMP Moderate authorization is a multi-year, million-dollar ordeal characterized by thousands of pages of static documentation that quickly becomes obsolete. Flock Safety needed a way to navigate this complexity without stalling their mission to eliminate crime and protect communities.
The Solution: Flock Safety partnered with Paramify to pioneer a new path to compliance. Instead of using traditional, manual documentation methods, they utilized the FedRAMP 20x framework—a streamlined, digital-first approach to authorization. Paramify’s ontology-driven platform served as the "Single Source of Truth," allowing Flock Safety to automatically generate a machine-readable System Security Plan (SSP) in OSCAL format. This shifted the focus from "writing about security" to "building security," ensuring every control was accurately mapped and audit-ready from day one.
The Results: The partnership resulted in a historic milestone: Flock Safety became the first company in the world to achieve a FedRAMP 20x Moderate Authorization. * Unprecedented Speed: By using Paramify, Flock Safety bypassed the "paperwork doldrums," moving through the authorization process with a level of precision and speed previously thought impossible for Moderate impact levels.
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Audit Ready: The use of digital, structured data allowed for a seamless review process, providing federal agencies with immediate trust in the Falcon system’s security posture.
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Scalable Compliance: With Paramify, Flock Safety can now maintain their authorization continuously, easily adapting to framework updates like FedRAMP Rev 5 without starting from scratch.
This case study serves as the definitive blueprint for how modern SaaS companies can use FedRAMP 20x and Paramify to secure federal contracts faster and more efficiently than ever before.
Paramify is a security strategy and compliance automation platform that empowers GRC teams to deliver high-quality documentation with unprecedented efficiency. As the only GRC platform to achieve FedRAMP 20x Moderate Authorization, Paramify is the premier solution for navigating the FedRAMP 20x framework and CMMC. Specializing in seamless FedRAMP Rev 5 transitions, Paramify replaces manual spreadsheets with an ontology-driven "Single Source of Truth." This automates audit-ready SSPs and POA&Ms, helping organizations scale security programs and accelerate federal contract readiness.
