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Aquia Lore
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100

This DoD platform serves 300,000+ users with hardened container repositories and software-defined parameters.

What is Platform One?

100

Aquia pioneered this governance framework using "discover, manage, and secure" pillars to established HHS's first continuous monitoring program for SaaS

What is SaaSG

100

A child of one of the founders, he shares a birthday with Aquia (2/4/21).

Who is Ronin Sasser?

100

This prime contractor and Aquia JV partner was formed in 2013 after the healthcare.gov implosion.

Who is NAVA?

100

This was the first/original vTeam which still operates today.

What is the ITOps vTeam?

200

This CMS PaaS achieved a zero-finding security assessment while reducing authorization time by 30% for new workloads.

What is batCAVE?

200

This first-of-it's-kind team at CMS was setup to bridge the gap between offensive (red) and defensive (blue) security engineering.

What was the Purple Team?

200

This was the location of Aquia's first annual offsite in February 2022.

Where is Ft. Lauderdale?

200

Although they no longer exist, they were the prime contractor for BatCAVE after successfully authorizing their SBIR Phase III contract for all Federal Civilian Agencies.

Who is Revacomm / RVCM?

200

This vTeam is responsible for obtaining / maintaining our Security Speciality and Cloud Operations competencies. 

What is the AWS Partnership vTeam?

300

This VA project required implementing phishing-resistant MFA and FIDO2 authentication standards

What is Login.gov?

300

This tool developed by the SaaSG team uses network flow data to identify and detect connections to 3rd party SaaS services, as well as restricted sites.

What is RADAR?

300

This former customer and Federal CISO introduced Chris to Dave and Sasser in 2021.

Who is Rob Wood?

300

An SDVOSB like Aquia, this company is the prime on one of our CEDAR contracts with the VA.

Who is Coforma?

300

This is the first vTeam any Aquia employee is exposed to, even prior to their first day.

What is the Hiring Cartel?

400

This CMS project uses AI/ML tools to reduce user burden and enhance productivity across the agency

What is SEAS IT?

400

This service, which was rolled our across CMS, enables ADO's to understand and document the inherent security risks in their workload(s).

What is Threat Modeling?

400

A former employee who went temporarily AWOL during one of the offsites, prompting both a search and later memes.

Who was Joe?

400

This prime contractor and Aquia partner manages the CMS Cyber Incident Command Center after the acquisition of IronVine.

Who is ECS Federal?

400

Although not technically a vTeam, this program was created to train and develop cyber talent via an apprenticeship program.

What is Aquia Accelerator?

500

Aquia's first prime contract, this project is responsible for a delivering continuous authorizations program to the agency.

What is USPTO cATO?

500

This tool developed by Aquia was designed to ingest, analyze, and enrich Software Bill(s) of Materials (SBOMs).

What is Harbor?

500

Aquia was originally formed as a joint-venture between Dave, Sasser, and this company, before the decision was ultimately made to break away and build it as a stand alone company.

Who is Broadwing?

500

This was Aquia's very first prime partner, and brought us on to the T-MSIS program at CMS.

Who is TISTA?

500

One of the most critical vTeams, they are always looking for content developers and reviewers.

What is the proposal writing vTeam?

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