Arkansas and StateRAMP

State
The Arizona Risk and Authorization Management Program is a NIST-based assessment developed to analyze a vendor’s threshold for security and data protection. Arizona has modeled its requirements based on the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, enabling access to hundreds of authorized offerings. In most circumstances, IT products and services are procured through the State’s competitive bid process.

Under the requirements of the program, vendors must be periodically reviewed to ensure continued compliance with NIST regulation requirements. In most circumstances, IT products and services are procured through the State’s competitive bid process.

Agency
The Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) has partnered with StateRAMP to validate the cyber security posture of third-party vendors who use or offer cloud products to deliver services.