Governance is the foundation.
Assurance is the proof.
GiaMetrics® helps organizations establish the governance foundation needed to manage risk, meet regulatory and contractual requirements, and make trustworthy decisions. We apply that foundation across cybersecurity, CMMC, RMF, FedRAMP, data governance, AI, and broader business operations.
Ownership, accountability, policy, boundaries, risk decisions, evidence, and continuous oversight. The foundation everything else applies to.
The frameworks your contracts and authorizations actually require, implemented on a foundation that holds up under assessment.
Evidence, monitoring, and authorization maintained over time through the FutureFeed platform, not reconstructed before every audit.
How We Think About It
Governance Comes First. Everything Else Is an Application of It.
Establish the governance foundation first, then apply the frameworks, controls, and assurance mechanisms that the mission and the risk environment actually require. CMMC, RMF, FedRAMP, and AI governance are not separate identities. They are applications of the same foundation.
Applied across cybersecurity, CMMC, RMF, FedRAMP, data governance, AI, and broader business operations.
Where We Apply It
Six Domains, One Foundation
The same governance work supports every one of these. None of them is the destination. Each is a place where the foundation gets applied to a specific requirement.
Cybersecurity
Security programs built on ownership and accountability.
CMMC
Certification readiness and assessment support for the DIB.
RMF
The federal risk management lifecycle, from categorize to monitor.
FedRAMP
Cloud service authorization and continuous monitoring.
Data Governance
Ownership, lineage, provenance, stewardship, and intended use.
AI Governance
NIST AI RMF implementation and trustworthy AI oversight.
Beyond these, the same principles apply to broader business operations wherever an organization needs to manage risk, satisfy a requirement, and make a decision it can defend.
Data Governance
Discovery Is Not Understanding
Most governance programs move straight from cataloging what data exists to writing rules about how to handle it. They skip the step in between, and it is the step that determines whether any of the rest holds up.
Knowing that a dataset exists tells you nothing about what it means, who is accountable for it, where it came from, what it is fit to be used for, or whether a decision based on it can be defended. Governance without that understanding is administration. It produces documents, not assurance.
This is why data work sits directly under the governance foundation rather than beside it. Every framework we implement eventually asks the same question in a different vocabulary: can you show us where this came from, who owns it, and why you trust it.
OwnershipNamed accountability, not implied.
LineageWhere it came from and what changed.
ProvenanceOrigin, authority, and chain of custody.
StewardshipDay-to-day custody and quality.
Intended UseWhat it is fit for, and what it is not.
MonitoringContinuous, not point-in-time.
Discovery
Establishes what data exists, where it lives, and how it moves. Necessary, and where most programs stop.
Understanding
Establishes what the data means, who is accountable for it, what it is fit to support, and what it is not. Without this, governance is administration.
Governance
Establishes ownership, policy, controls, and oversight on a base of data that is actually understood.
Assurance
Produces the evidence that satisfies an assessor, an authorizing official, or a contracting officer, and that supports a decision you can defend.
Current Threat Environment
The Risk Environment You Are Governing
Live data from NIST and CISA on the vulnerability landscape, and from the Federal Register on the regulatory one. Governance is not an annual exercise, because neither environment it governs holds still.
Assurance You Can Show, Not Reconstruct
GiaMetrics is a certified FutureFeed partner. FutureFeed is a FedRAMP High-authorized compliance platform running on AWS GovCloud, and it is where the governance work becomes evidence that holds up under assessment.
Live SPRS ScoringKnow your score before a contracting officer does.
SSP & POA&M GenerationGenerated from live control state, not rewritten annually.
CUI DiscoveryFind controlled information before an assessor does.
Continuous MonitoringEvidence maintained over time, not assembled under deadline.
Who You Are Working With
Experience That Predates the Vocabulary
GiaMetrics® is led by Lawrence M. Coclough, who spent 23 years in the U.S. Army Signal Corps and 13 years at the Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems at Fort Belvoir as Information Assurance Program Manager and Senior Cybersecurity Manager. During that period roughly 70 percent of the organization’s Authorizations to Operate carried his signature before reaching the Approving Authority, across the transition from DITSCAP to DIACAP to RMF.
In 2016 he led the effort that obtained the first IL5 FedRAMP authorization issued by DISA, which at the time made his employer only the second cloud service provider authorized to handle all levels of unclassified DoD data.
The practice traces back to 1988, doing structured systems analysis and business process reengineering with CASE tools, before governance, risk, and compliance existed as a named discipline. Each era since has been a genuinely different discipline sharing the same foundational principles.
Credentials held include CISSP, CISM, CISA, CGRC, CCISO, CCSA, and, from the Cyber AB, Registered Practitioner and Certified CMMC Professional.
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business
GiaMetrics® is an SDVOSB verified through the U.S. Small Business Administration. Federal agencies and prime contractors can apply GiaMetrics work toward SDVOSB subcontracting goals under FAR Part 19.
Methodology
The Decision Advantage Framework™
A governance methodology for aligning mission, decisions, data, risk, compliance, and technology. Seven stages that take an organization from understanding what it is actually trying to accomplish through to governance that is maintained rather than reconstructed.
Whether the objective is CMMC certification, FedRAMP authorization, RMF authorization, AI readiness, or another mission-specific requirement, the Framework is the structure underneath it. It does not replace a compliance framework. It is what the compliance framework rests on.
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