Iron Fort ITSG-33 Enterprise Edition

Iron Fort is a modern ITSG-33 compliance platform purpose built for Canadian federal departments and agencies that must complete Security Assessment and Authorization (SA&A) activities and maintain Authority to Operate (ATO) approvals. The platform is available as a cloud native SaaS solution or deployable on private infrastructure to support sensitive workloads, giving departments flexibility to meet both business and security requirements.

SA&A for Environments and Workloads Iron Fort enables security teams to perform SA&A at both the environment level and within individual workloads or applications. Each workload inherits controls from the environment and can reuse evidence already validated, reducing duplication of effort and ensuring consistency across the entire system boundary.

Continuous Compliance Monitoring Traditional ITSG-33 processes are point in time, often revisited only every 1 to 5 years. Iron Fort transforms this by enabling continuous monitoring of technical safeguards and control health. Dashboards provide real time insights into configuration changes and potential risks, with alerts ensuring issues are addressed well before they impact compliance or security posture.

Automated Documentation The platform generates required ConOps (Concept of Operations) documents based on information already stored in the system. This eliminates manual drafting, speeds up the preparation of mandatory artifacts, and ensures content remains accurate and aligned with current configurations and security practices.

ATO Workflows and Approvals Iron Fort includes built in workflows for approvals, notifications, and the secure storage of ATO documentation. Approvers, reviewers, and operators receive timely alerts as tasks progress. Documents, comments, and supporting evidence are captured in one system of record, eliminating reliance on email and spreadsheets.

Dashboards for Oversight Executives and project teams gain visibility into every stage of the ATO lifecycle. Dashboards present work in process, assigned tasks, pending approvals, outstanding actions, current ATO status, and linked documents. CISOs and program managers see a department wide view of all ATOs, while consultants and security analysts can focus on individual projects.

Automated Evidence Collection Iron Fort uses automation to scan relevant organizational and workload specific documents, gathering and attaching evidence directly to controls and enhancements. This reduces manual labor, improves accuracy, and accelerates the pace of SA&A activities, helping departments move more quickly to achieve or renew an ATO.

Multi Tenant Views and Role Based Access Departments can manage multiple ATOs in a single system. Multi tenant dashboards provide visibility across the organization, with role based permissions ensuring each user sees only the projects and evidence relevant to their role. CISOs and directors can track compliance program wide, while analysts and contractors focus on their assigned ATO packages.

Summary Iron Fort modernizes ITSG-33 compliance for the Government of Canada by combining automated SA&A workflows, reusable evidence, ConOps generation, approval and ATO management, continuous compliance monitoring, and real time dashboards. By reducing manual effort and providing oversight from the CISO level down to individual analysts, Iron Fort accelerates ATO approvals and ensures systems remain secure and compliant between authorization cycles.