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Who We Are
We Solve the Compliance Problems That Slow Your Organization Down
When compliance slows your business down, costs more than it should, and still leaves you exposed, you need more than an assessor. You need a partner who fixes the problem.
The Problem We Built Fortreum to Fix
Michael Carter and James Leach spent 25 years watching brilliant companies fail compliance for the wrong reasons.
Before founding Fortreum in 2020, Michael and James worked across federal agencies, defense programs, and enterprise security organizations. They watched cloud companies with real solutions spend 18 months chasing FedRAMP authorization, only to fail pre-assessment because their consultant sold them advisory hours instead of a path to ATO. They watched defense contractors lose contracts they’d already won because CMMC “certification” turned out to be a checkbox, not the continuous posture DoD actually required.
What We Kept Seeing
The pattern was always the same: compliance vendors had no incentive to make compliance easier. Consultants billed by the hour. Assessors sold audits, not outcomes. GRC platforms required armies of compliance engineers to operate.
Michael and James built Fortreum to fix that. Independent assessments that don’t upsell advisory. Roadmaps that sequence frameworks to unlock revenue, not maximize billable hours. Eventually they built XRAMP because no GRC vendor understood what assessors actually needed.
What We Did About It
Six years later, Fortreum is a Top 5 FedRAMP 3PAO, backed by Gryphon Investors, and ranked on the Inc. 5000 for 773% growth. We serve defense contractors, cloud service providers, and enterprises that need compliance to accelerate their business, not obstruct it.
The Track Record Behind Every Engagement
Every engagement is backed by a team that has spent 25 years solving the exact problems your organization is facing now across federal agencies, defense contractors, and enterprise cloud providers.
Patented AI-native compliance automation platform
- Inc. 5000 #523, 773% three-year revenue growth
- Top 5 FedRAMP 3PAO on the FedRAMP Marketplace
- Virginia Business Best Places to Work, 2024, 2025, and 2026
- Gryphon Investors majority growth recapitalization, January 2026
- FedRAMP 20x assessments completed for InfusionPoints and Meridian
Core Services
Practice | Frameworks and Capabilities |
|---|---|
Regulatory Compliance | FedRAMP, FISMA, CMMC, SOC 2, ISO 27001:2022, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GovRAMP, DoD Cloud |
Offensive Security | Penetration testing, red teaming, purple team operations, social engineering |
Strategic Advisory | Risk management, gap analysis, remediation guidance, cybersecurity program development |
Continuous Authorization | XRAMP platform, assess-once reuse-many, multi-framework consolidation |
Corporate Data
Field | Details |
|---|---|
Founded
| 2020 |
Headquarters | Leesburg, VA |
Phone | 571-831-3759 |
Email | |
NAICS Code(s) | 541519 – Other Computer Related Services |
CAGE Code | 8P3J7 |
UEI
| ZRZLZA93V1K3 |
SAM.gov Registration
| Active |
ISO Accreditations | ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27701 — ANAB issued |
CMMC Authorization | C3PAO — Cyber-AB Authorized |
The Experts Behind the Mission
People Who Have Done This Work. Not Just Advised On It.
Every engagement is backed by a team that has spent 25 years solving the exact problems your organization is facing now across federal agencies, defense contractors, and enterprise cloud providers.
How We Operate
Five Principles Behind Every Engagement
