Veritas Alta™ SaaS Protection Achieves FedRAMP Ready Designation

Cyber Resiliency & Ransomware September 23, 2024
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Ensuring the security and compliance of sensitive data is paramount in an era where cyber-attacks occur 19 times per second. This is no different for the growing number of public sector organizations leveraging Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. To address this need, Veritas Alta SaaS Protection provides cost-effective and automated data management, protection, and security for leading SaaS applications and PaaS workloads. Assuring government agencies that Alta SaaS Protection meets strict standards, 

Achieving FedRamp Ready status is a significant milestone for ASP, further solidifying its position as the most secure SaaS platforms available for protecting critical workloads such as Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Google Workspace, Box, and Slack. This certification builds upon ASP’s already impressive suite of security features, ensuring that customers in highly regulated industries have confidence in the platform’s ability to safeguard sensitive data while maintaining compliance with strict governmental and industry standards.

What is FedRAMP?

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a U.S. government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring of cloud products and services. FedRAMP ensures that cloud services meet the rigorous security requirements of the U.S. federal government. FedRAMP has three authorization levels: Low, Moderate, and High. 

FedRAMP Ready Authorization: A Milestone in Data Security Leadership

One of ASP’s standout features is its unique private tenant architecture, which guarantees that no customer’s operations, compute, or data are shared with any other ASP client. This ensures absolute isolation and security, offering peace of mind to enterprises concerned about data protection. ASP is already SOC2 compliant, GXP certified, and IRAP certified, with a proven track record of serving large enterprise customers in sectors such as finance, banking, pharmaceuticals, and legal — industries where compliance and data protection are critical. With this latest FedRamp Ready status, ASP continues to lead the way in secure SaaS solutions for mission-critical workloads.

Adding the FedRAMP-ready designation ensures that Alta SaaS Protection has undergone a thorough security assessment process, demonstrating that it can meet the security requirements of the U.S. federal government.

This includes:

  • Comprehensive security controls and policies.

  • Continuous monitoring for potential security threats.

  • Strict data sovereignty and access controls.

With the growing threat of cyberattacks and data breaches paired with new executive orders on cyber security, organizations must adopt robust security measures to safeguard their sensitive information. The FedRAMP Ready designation provides confidence that Veritas Alta SaaS Protection is committed to stringent security and compliance requirements. 

Veritas Alta SaaS Protection: Empowering Organizations to protect their data across popular SaaS providers 

Veritas Alta SaaS Protection is a cloud-based enterprise data protection and management solution for government entities to centrally protect, analyze, search, and manage all types of SaaS application data at any scale. The solution consists of a cloud-native backbone that runs in Microsoft Azure data centers. It provides granular data management, enterprise-grade security, high performance, and scalability. 

Veritas Alta SaaS Protection uses the SaaS providers’ native APIs to seamlessly work to enable backup, archive, migration, tiering, and recovery of data stored on the providers’ platform. The solution protects against evolving ransomware threats, ensuring data resilience and recoverability even during attacks. Veritas Alta SaaS Protection also provides the ability to make a true secondary copy of your Veritas Alta SaaS Protection Azure Blob Storage account(s) through an add-on service called Extra Data Backup. Veritas Alta SaaS Protection offers key benefits that align with FedRAMP's stringent security and compliance requirements. described below:  

  1. Enhanced Security and Compliance: Veritas Alta SaaS Protection is designed with a strong focus on security, aligning with FedRAMP's rigorous standards. This includes advanced encryption, multi-factor authentication, and strict access controls, ensuring that sensitive government data is protected at all times, both in transit and at rest.
  2. Automated Data Integrity and Compliance Reporting: The platform provides automated compliance reporting and continuous monitoring to ensure adherence to FedRAMP's security protocols. This reduces the administrative burden on government agencies, enabling them to meet compliance requirements more efficiently while ensuring data integrity.
  3. Seamless Integration with Government SaaS Applications: Alta SaaS Protection integrates seamlessly with popular SaaS applications used in government environments, ensuring consistent data protection across platforms. This enables secure backup, archiving, and recovery of data from FedRAMP-authorized SaaS applications like Microsoft, ensuring compliance with federal data handling regulations.
  4. Scalable and Resilient Data Protection: Designed to handle large volumes of data, Veritas Alta SaaS Protection offers scalable solutions that can adapt to the needs of various federal agencies. Its resilience ensures continuous data availability and fast recovery times, even in the event of a breach or disaster, helping agencies maintain operational continuity.

Data Sovereignty Assurance and Unparalleled Data Protection with Azure Government 

Veritas Alta SaaS Protection for Microsoft 365, compatible with Azure Government, guarantees that all data remains securely within the United States, adhering to the strictest data sovereignty requirements. This solution scales across domains and is designed to provide continuous backup and high performance, ensuring comprehensive data protection. Through seamless integration with Microsoft 365 SaaS APIs, it maintains a synthetic full backup of your data. It supports complete data store backups and allows for both detailed and bulk data restores to original or alternative locations, ensuring your data is recoverable and protected at all times. 

The strong partnership between Veritas and Microsoft enhances this offering, combining Veritas’s expertise in data protection with the robust security and compliance capabilities of Azure Government. This collaboration ensures that customers benefit from a highly secure, compliant, and efficient cloud environment, tailored to meet the demands of government entities and enterprises requiring the highest levels of data protection and sovereignty.

Choose Veritas Alta SaaS Protection for Unparalleled Security

By leveraging Veritas Alta SaaS Protection, organizations can confidently navigate the complex landscape of data protection and compliance. Embrace the scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness of the cloud with unwavering assurance from Veritas security controls, validated by FedRAMP.

Additionally, Veritas Alta SaaS Protection enables organizations to meet the demanding data protection and compliance requirements imposed by government entities and other regulated sectors. For industries supporting federal sectors, this certification provides a competitive advantage and expands market reach by ensuring the protection of sensitive data.

Embrace the Future of Data Protection with Veritas

Choosing Veritas Alta SaaS Protection means your organization can focus on driving innovation, growth, and success, knowing that your data is safeguarded by FedRAMP Moderate standards of security and compliance. Find Veritas on the FedRAMP marketplace

To learn more about Veritas Alta SaaS Protection visit Alta SaaS Protection

Embrace Veritas Alta SaaS Protection and empower your organization with the confidence to continue a secure and successful digital transformation.

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Kevin Youngquist
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