Accelerated a client’s ability to generate revenue by helping them prepare for Authority to Operate (ATO) certification. Trility delivered specialized DevSecOps automation, security compliance remediation, and vital knowledge transfer, which collectively stabilized their core infrastructure and rapidly elevated their security posture.
The client's business requirement was to achieve an Authority to Operate (ATO) status to onboard new revenue-generating services. The required timeline for this certification was highly accelerated. Initial internal projections indicated the effort would take twice as long as mandated, threatening the service's launch and subsequent revenue collection.
Compliance & Logistics: The client lacked a cohesive system for collecting and managing the necessary compliance artifacts required for the System Security Plan (SSP) submission, with documentation scattered across multiple platforms. The work required expertise in multiple complex security standards (NIST 800-171R2 and NIST 800-53R5).
Infrastructure & Capacity Gaps: The DevOps team faced severe capacity limitations and an internal skill gap, particularly in DevSecOps automation and managing an environment of 20+ Kubernetes clusters, made worse by the unexpected departure of a key infrastructure engineer. These factors threatened the long-term operability of the production environment.
Trility integrated seamlessly with the client's security team to provide not just consultation, but hands-on implementation and automation to address security standards, NIST 800-171R2, NIST 800-53R5, and apply CIS Benchmarks and Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) to critical components.
Structured Compliance: The team first addressed the compliance bottleneck by consolidating and structuring the client's security documentation by centralizing the artifacts and tracking the status of security controls for the SSP – transforming disorganized data into an accessible, auditable format.
Expanded Remediation: After closing compliance gaps, the engagement evolved to address the critical underlying technical gaps in the DevOps and infrastructure teams. Trility took on remediation work for identified security deficiencies that the client’s team lacked the capacity to fix.
Knowledge Transfer: To ensure sustainability, Trility conducted extensive Knowledge Transfer sessions on vital infrastructure-as-code and orchestration tools like Terraform and Kubernetes.
Infrastructure & Automation: AWS, Kubernetes (for managing 20+ clusters), Terraform (for Infrastructure as Code), and Jenkins (for continuous deployment).
Specialized Hardening: Developed custom scripting to automate compliance checks and hardened the client’s Postgres database instances, utilizing a third-party postgres operator (PGO) to meet stringent CIS Benchmark 14 controls.
The engagement resulted in quantifiable security improvements and critical acceleration of business objectives for the client.
Accelerated Revenue Acquisition: An accelerated process to achieve an Authority to Operate (ATO) certification, the first step to launching new services and generating revenue.
Increased Security & Compliance: Security posture was drastically improved, including hardening critical database and container components to industry standards (NIST and CIS Benchmarks/STIGs).
Automation & Stability: Trility built and deployed DevSecOps automation using Terraform and Kubernetes, including automated cluster repave processes. This stabilized the infrastructure team’s workload and ensured maintainability and consistent security.
Sustainable Capability: By consolidating documentation and providing hands-on Knowledge Transfer on key technologies, Trility ensured a seamless handoff, leaving the client's upskilled team fully capable of operating and maintaining the compliant infrastructure independently.
