This can keep going through multiple steps.

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Up until now, each agency has individually gone through multiple steps that take anywhere from 6-18 months and countless man hours to properly assess and authorize the security of a system before it grants authority to move forward on a transition to the cloud.

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Consider how IT management is handled today by most organizations: when capacity, configuration or performance issues are detected, a ticket typically must be filed and then handled by multiple people as it flows through numerous procedural steps before the problem is remedied.

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