Fed up with FedRAMP? How Knox Delivers Authorization in 90 Days

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When people look back on 2025 they will see many changes in the FedRAMP process. It looks like a new administration examined the process, got feedback from companies, and launched new initiatives to speed up the process.

During today's interview, Irina Denisenko (Knox CEO) details FedRAMP's challenges and something called "FedRAMP 20x." Knox runs the largest FedRAMP-managed cloud, enabling 90-day authorizations by hosting customers' production environments.

Denisenko explains the story of the origin of Knox Systems: she was running a training company and the Air Force wanted to use her product. It would have taken so long to complete the FedRAMP requirements that she just bought a company that was FedRAMP compliant.

It is hard to believe that the process is so frustrating that fewer than 500 apps are authorized at moderate/high FedRAMP

The initiative from the GSA is called FedRAMP 20x It shifts to continuous monitoring and continuous authorization, moving from annual audits (sampled every 3 years) and monthly CVE spreadsheets to real-time, machine-readable data.

What Knox offers is a tried-and-true platform that has reduced time for compliance in order to better serve federal needs.