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A recent article in U.S. Cybersecurity Magazine, “The ATO Bottleneck: Rethinking Responsibility and Enabling Automation,” makes a compelling case for transforming the federal Authority to Operate (ATO) process. The authors argue that the current manual, documentation-heavy approach—which can take months or even years—must evolve into an automated, continuous compliance model. Their vision: cut ATO cycles by 40-60% through Secure-by-Design principles, DevSecOps integration, and real-time evidence generation.

The Case for Automation

The article identifies several critical problems with traditional ATO processes:

Static documentation that becomes outdated as systems evolve
Manual evidence gathering that consumes months of effort
Reactive compliance where security is retrofitted rather than built-in
Knowledge silos that bottleneck approvals with specialized expertise

Their solution emphasizes automation tools that integrate with DevSecOps pipelines, continuous monitoring platforms that generate live compliance dashboards, and Secure-by-Design practices that embed security controls directly into infrastructure code from day one. The goal: transform ATO from a bureaucratic gate into a dynamic trust mechanism.

AI Takes It Further

While the article champions automation for validating and collecting evidence, AI-powered approaches like the ATLAS ATO Accelerator extend this vision by also automating compliant code generation. Here’s how AI enhances the automation framework:

Knowledge Democratization: The article emphasizes training programs to teach developers RMF and DevSecOps principles. The ATLAS approach encodes this expert knowledge into AI agent instruction files, making compliance guidance accessible at the moment of code creation—no deep NIST expertise required.

Generative Compliance: Rather than just scanning existing code for violations, the ATLAS approach uses AI to generate infrastructure that’s compliant from the start. The approach focuses on generating Infrastructure as Code artifacts with compliance controls built in, and clearly document, significantly reducing the time required to gather and document artifacts when the time comes.

Adaptive Guidance: As requirements evolve—new NIST revisions, emerging threats, updated frameworks—AI agent instructions (which are art the heart of the ATLAS approach) can be updated once and propagate consistently across all projects, addressing the article’s concern about “shifting interpretations” and “changing requirements.”

From Automation to Intelligence

The authors are right to point out that automation tools can “cut ATO cycles by an estimated 40-60% range.” AI-guided generation has the potential to push this further by preventing compliance gaps before they occur. When security controls, proper documentation patterns, and ATO readiness are embedded into the IaC generation process itself, teams spend less time on rework and more time on innovation.

The article’s vision of continuous ATO, living documentation, and Secure-by-Design is the right direction. AI-powered tools like those documented in the ATLAS approach demonstrate how to operationalize that vision—not just automating the compliance process, but making secure, ATO-ready infrastructure the natural default output of modern development workflows.

Read the full article: The ATO Bottleneck: Rethinking Responsibility and Enabling Automation

#AI #ATO #ChatGPT #government #llm

#ai #ato #chatgpt #government #llm

🅱🅸🅶🅾🆁🆁🅴.🅾🆁🅶 @[email protected] · 2025-12-01 · 17:07 UTC

Aviation weather for Ohio University Snyder Field airport in Athens and Albany area (USA) is “KUNI 011355Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM OVC028 M01/M05 A3043 RMK AO2 T10111052” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/kuni/en #ohiouniversitysnyderfieldairport #airport #athens #albany #usa #kuni #ato #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek vl

#ohiouniversitysnyderfieldairport #airport #athens #albany #usa #kuni

Bahnblogstelle @[email protected] · 2025-11-24 · 15:52 UTC

Testphase für automatischen Zugbetrieb auf der Betuweroute

#ATO #Automatisierung #Betuweroute #DBCargo #Lokführer #Lokomotive #Niederlande #ProRail #Vectron

https://bahnblogstelle.com/242685/testphase-fuer-automatischen-zugbetrieb-auf-der-betuweroute/

#ato #automatisierung #betuweroute #dbcargo #lokfuhrer #lokomotive

Cloudslave @[email protected] · 2025-11-11 · 02:16 UTC

A warning: If you are a pensioner who decides to rent out a room because housing crisis, beware! Centrelink and the ATO will come after you with baseball bats. I tried it but it's not worth the trouble and financial pain! #Centrelink #ATO

#centrelink #ato

Cloudslave @[email protected] · 2025-11-11 · 02:16 UTC

A warning: If you are a pensioner who decides to rent out a room because housing crisis, beware! Centrelink and the ATO will come after you with baseball bats. I tried it but it's not worth the trouble and financial pain! #Centrelink #ATO

#centrelink #ato

Cloudslave @[email protected] · 2025-11-11 · 02:16 UTC

A warning: If you are a pensioner who decides to rent out a room because housing crisis, beware! Centrelink and the ATO will come after you with baseball bats. I tried it but it's not worth the trouble and financial pain! #Centrelink #ATO

#centrelink #ato

Pyrzout :vm: @[email protected] · 2025-11-07 · 21:10 UTC

Account Takeover: What Is It and How to Fight It https://hackread.com/account-takeover-what-is-it-how-to-fight-it/ #AccountTakeover #Cybersecurity #Security #ATO

#accounttakeover #cybersecurity #security #ato

Kim @[email protected] · 2025-10-31 · 04:30 UTC

WTAF? Just got this from the ATO. This is the sum total of the information provided*.

'We've overpaid you ten years ago and now we are going to deduct that amount.'

No calculation, no reason, just trust us that we know the $ amount we fucked up 10 years ago and we're not fucking this $ amount up now.

What fucking clown runs a financial institution like this?!

*The letter goes on to give you a standard spiel about contact numbers and addresses. It's not a large amount, but the hubris and lack of basic governance is fucking staggering #ato #robodebt

#ato #robodebt

Bin Chicken 🗑𓅠 @[email protected] · 2025-10-27 · 02:49 UTC

ATO refers hundreds of thousands of taxpayers to a private debt collector – including people on Centrelink benefits
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/27/ato-tax-repayments-debt-collector

The ATO is handballing thousands of people to Recoveriescorp. This misstep by the ATO is going to have disastrous consequences, like we saw with RoboDebt.

Recoveriescorp is a debt collector that's funded by private equity.

The business-model for private equity is buy-up other companies. This buy-up generates a massive debt. Companies that get consumed by a private equity firm are usually saddled with that debt. But, the reason those companies were up for sale is they were in bad shape. Now they've gone from underperforming to being in existential crisis. Their primary motivation becomes making as much money as possible, as quickly as possible, and by any means possible. Recoveriescorp is desperate to make money, and will hit anyone to make a buck.

What kind of company is Recoveriescorp?

Follow the money!

Recoveriescorp is owned by Nutun Australia Holdings Pty Ltd, which is part of Dove Bidco Pty Ltd, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Allegro Funds Pty Ltd.

Clear as mud.

How about Allegro Funds?

Back in January 2023, news emerged that PwC had been leaking secret Australian Government tax plans to corporations for up to ten years. PwC had abused its position as consultants to the Australian Government. Additionally, PwC ran what appears to me is a sham investigation to cover-up their own dirty deeds. (For more info, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PwC_tax_scandal).

As the result of this scandal, PwC lost A$680 million, about 20% of its overall income.

To extricate itself from the disaster of its own making, PwC spun-off the part of its business responsible for the acursed "Government Services". That was in June 2023. (For more info, see https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-25/pwc-appoints-new-ceo-will-sell-off-government-business/102521482). The core of new company was 117 former PwC partners, then filled-out with more than 1,500 other PwC staff. It was named Scyne Advisory.

In November 2023, PwC sold Scyne Advisory to Allegro Funds for $1.

You read that right: one dollar.

Now Recoveriescorp, owned by Allegro Funds and haunted by the ghost of Scyne Advisory (née PwC), has a fresh deal with the Australian Taxation Office. The ATO hasn't learned anything from its past mistakes. They did a deal with Recoveriescorp to act as a debt collector and try to claw money from people on Centrelink.

#AusPol #RoboDebt #ATO #AustralianTaxationOffice #Centrelink #Recoveriescorp #PwC #ScyneAdvisory #AllegroFunds

#auspol #robodebt #ato #australiantaxationoffice #centrelink #recoveriescorp

Coroot @[email protected] · 2025-10-17 · 18:47 UTC

Huge thanks to @allthingsopen for hosting an incredible event! We loved chatting with you all about #observability, #AI, and #opensource (so much that we stayed until you were boxing up 🐝 🐧 📦 )

#SRE #OTEL #eBPF #Linux #softwarelibre #monitoring #tech #ATO #ATO2025 #allthingsopen

#observability #ai #opensource #sre #otel #ebpf

@LinuxGeek46 @[email protected] · 2025-10-16 · 19:59 UTC

https://www.both.org/?p=12207

#Linux #Both.org #ATO #AllThingsOpen

#linux #both #ato #allthingsopen

Matthew Sanabria @[email protected] · 2025-10-13 · 13:53 UTC

Hello @allthingsopen attendees! I'll see you Tuesday at 3:15pm for my talk: Developing Kubernetes Integrations for the On-Premesis Cloud

#ato #allthingsopen #kubernetes #cloud #linux #programming

Bahnblogstelle @[email protected] · 2025-10-10 · 06:10 UTC

Größtes ETCS-Projekt in Südamerika - Siemens modernisiert Nahverkehrsnetz von São Paulo

#ATO #ETCS #Infrastruktur #Modernisierung #Siemens #SiemensMobility #Südamerika #TriviaTrens

https://bahnblogstelle.com/240094/groesstes-etcs-projekt-in-suedamerika-siemens-modernisiert-nahverkehrsnetz-von-sao-paulo/

#ato #etcs #infrastruktur #modernisierung #siemens #siemensmobility

Sly Gryphon @[email protected] · 2025-10-04 · 09:15 UTC

The #ATO Australian Tax Return for Companies is a #poordesign form. It is a multi-page form, with numbered item sections, and then letter labels for individual fields. However the combination of page + item number + label letter is not unique, so you have to refer to items by their full name. e.g. page 6, item 8 - label K, could refer to item K - Commercial Debt forgiveness, or K - Unfranked dividends paid.

#ato #poordesign

Wulfy—Speaker to the machines @[email protected] · 2025-10-03 · 01:00 UTC

@asherwolf.bsky.social

By #Australian law, a business is not obligated to keep their records beyond 2017 (-7 years).

This is nothing short of harassment
#ato

#australian #ato

Queen 1066 @[email protected] · 2025-09-30 · 03:16 UTC

SAR lodgement due 31 October. If you haven’t lodged previously or you failed to lodge on time previously this is your date. You need to have it audited. #smsf #superannuation #ato

https://www.ato.gov.au/individuals-and-families/super-for-individuals-and-families/self-managed-super-funds-smsf/smsf-newsroom/sar-lodgment-due-31-october

#smsf #superannuation #ato

abc+ | Notícias, esportes, entretenimento e muito + para você [Unofficial] @[email protected] · 2025-09-23 · 15:02 UTC

“Não há pacificação com impunidade”: Lula critica falsos patriotas, fala de tarifaço e diz que soberania do Brasil é inegociável

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.abcmais.com/pais/nao-ha-pacificacao-com-impunidade-lula-critica-falsos-patriotas-fala-de-tarifaco-e-diz-que-soberania-do-brasil-e-inegociavel/

#brasil #novayork #pais #ato #donaldtrump #estados

Sérac @[email protected] · 2025-09-13 · 20:23 UTC

GoA4 stands for fully automated train operation and this line might run unstaffed in a few years.
Hexenkirchli, #StGallen #Switzerland
#AppenzellerBahnen #ATO #Railway

#stgallen #switzerland #appenzellerbahnen #ato #railway

Coroot @[email protected] · 2025-09-09 · 18:06 UTC

Chat about all things #opensource and #observability with Coroot team members at the @allthingsopen Conference, Oct. 12 - 14 in Raleigh, North Carolina! (Head just outside of room #305A to meet us at our booth)

Network with thousands of passionate #FOSS experts from around the world, expand your knowledge with hundreds of talks on emerging tech in #cloud, #AI, #DevOps, #databases and more.

Sign up: https://2025.allthingsopen.org/register

#Linux #freesoftware #tech #SRE #ATO #allthingsopen #ATO2025

#opensource #observability #305a #foss #cloud #ai

pospi @[email protected] · 2025-08-27 · 07:39 UTC

TIL (from my accountant) that the #ATO uses cell tower data to validate vehicle logbook claims. Just in case those in #Australia needed any reminders about the promiscuous governmental #surveillance apparatus and inter-departmental free-for-all on citizen tracking #metadata.

#ato #australia #surveillance #metadata

eldiario.es (bot no oficial) @[email protected] · 2025-08-26 · 00:00 UTC

Independencia, soberanía y el discurso de la última década https://slavyangrad.es/2025/08/25/independencia-soberania-y-el-discurso-de-la-ultima-decada/ @nsanzo #EjércitoUcraniano #EstadosUnidos #UniónEuropea #Donbass #Ucrania #Minsk #Rusia #DPR #LPR #ATO

#ejercitoucraniano #estadosunidos #unioneuropea #donbass #ucrania #minsk

Anna @[email protected] · 2025-06-19 · 23:18 UTC

Wow. The MyGov spam/phishing emails are much higher this financial year than I have seen before. A 0 and not an O seems so obvious to me. I have already deleted so many! Careful my Australian friends. #phishing #spam #MyGov #ATO #Centerlink

#phishing #spam #mygov #ato #centerlink

Anna @[email protected] · 2025-06-19 · 23:18 UTC

Wow. The MyGov spam/phishing emails are much higher this financial year than I have seen before. A 0 and not an O seems so obvious to me. I have already deleted so many! Careful my Australian friends. #phishing #spam #MyGov #ATO #Centerlink

#phishing #spam #mygov #ato #centerlink

Anna @[email protected] · 2025-06-19 · 23:18 UTC

Wow. The MyGov spam/phishing emails are much higher this financial year than I have seen before. A 0 and not an O seems so obvious to me. I have already deleted so many! Careful my Australian friends. #phishing #spam #MyGov #ATO #Centerlink

#centerlink #ato #mygov #spam #phishing

Anna @[email protected] · 2025-06-19 · 23:18 UTC

Wow. The MyGov spam/phishing emails are much higher this financial year than I have seen before. A 0 and not an O seems so obvious to me. I have already deleted so many! Careful my Australian friends. #phishing #spam #MyGov #ATO #Centerlink

#centerlink #phishing #spam #mygov #ato

Indusface @[email protected] · 2024-05-21 · 10:33 UTC

👉 Join Karthik Krishnamoorthy, CTO and Vivek Gopalan, VP of Products at Indusface, in a live #API attack simulation. 🔓

In this session, they will cover:
- An exploit of #OWASP API Top 10 vulnerability
- A brute force #ATO (Account Takeover) attack on an API
- A #DDoS attack on an API
- Positive security model automation to prevent #APIattacks

Don't miss out – register now! https://bit.ly/3WODUV8

#authentication #authorization #apisecurity #hacking #owasptop10 #ddosattacks #apigateway #bruteforceattacks #cybersecurity #apptrana

#api #owasp #ato #ddos #apiattacks #authentication

Indusface @[email protected] · 2024-05-21 · 10:33 UTC

👉 Join Karthik Krishnamoorthy, CTO and Vivek Gopalan, VP of Products at Indusface, in a live #API attack simulation. 🔓

In this session, they will cover:
- An exploit of #OWASP API Top 10 vulnerability
- A brute force #ATO (Account Takeover) attack on an API
- A #DDoS attack on an API
- Positive security model automation to prevent #APIattacks

Don't miss out – register now! https://bit.ly/3WODUV8

#authentication #authorization #apisecurity #hacking #owasptop10 #ddosattacks #apigateway #bruteforceattacks #cybersecurity #apptrana

#api #owasp #ato #ddos #apiattacks #authentication

Indusface @[email protected] · 2024-05-21 · 10:33 UTC

👉 Join Karthik Krishnamoorthy, CTO and Vivek Gopalan, VP of Products at Indusface, in a live #API attack simulation. 🔓

In this session, they will cover:
- An exploit of #OWASP API Top 10 vulnerability
- A brute force #ATO (Account Takeover) attack on an API
- A #DDoS attack on an API
- Positive security model automation to prevent #APIattacks

Don't miss out – register now! https://bit.ly/3WODUV8

#authentication #authorization #apisecurity #hacking #owasptop10 #ddosattacks #apigateway #bruteforceattacks #cybersecurity #apptrana

#apptrana #cybersecurity #bruteforceattacks #apigateway #ddosattacks #owasptop10

Indusface @[email protected] · 2024-05-21 · 10:33 UTC

👉 Join Karthik Krishnamoorthy, CTO and Vivek Gopalan, VP of Products at Indusface, in a live #API attack simulation. 🔓

In this session, they will cover:
- An exploit of #OWASP API Top 10 vulnerability
- A brute force #ATO (Account Takeover) attack on an API
- A #DDoS attack on an API
- Positive security model automation to prevent #APIattacks

Don't miss out – register now! https://bit.ly/3WODUV8

#authentication #authorization #apisecurity #hacking #owasptop10 #ddosattacks #apigateway #bruteforceattacks #cybersecurity #apptrana

#api #owasp #ato #ddos #apiattacks #authentication

SimpleProgrammer @[email protected] · 2024-02-20 · 01:09 UTC

The gall of doing this on the back of #Robodebt
is absolutely gob-smacking.

Instead of closing #loopholes that allow big business and wealthy individuals to minimise #tax, you'll go after retirees and poor folk who already pay more tax than they should.

According to the #ATO they think it would be UNFAIR not to target all debts regardless of the vulnerability of the person or the age of the debt (noting we only need to hold evidential documentation for 7 years). But apparently it's perfectly fair that wealthy people minimise their tax below the rates that poor people are forced to pay.

#auspol

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/20/ato-eyeing-ramp-up-of-controversial-robotax-scheme-in-bid-to-recoup-15bn-in-on-hold-debts

#robodebt #loopholes #tax #ato #auspol

schlot.at 🏭 @[email protected] · 2024-01-06 · 15:35 UTC

US | MN | Sleepy Eye | Midwest Canning Co plant | Del Monte | ~ 1930-1940

https://www.schlot.at/2024/01/06/us-mn-sleepy-eye-midwest-canning-co-plant-del-monte-1930-1940/

#AlteAufnahme #Foto #USA #1930 #1931 #1932 #1933 #1934 #1935 #1936 #1937 #1938 #1939 #1940 #ATO #canning #ColseDown #Emissionen #factory #Minnesota #peas #plant #Rauch #RPPC #Schornstein #Seneca #site #SleepyEye #SmokeStack #SweetCorn #VintagePhoto #Wasserturm #WaterTower #watertoren

#alteaufnahme #foto #usa #ato #canning #colsedown

Indusface @[email protected] · 2023-11-07 · 05:20 UTC

👉 “We have an #API gateway, and the strong authentication & authorization keeps us secure.”

This notion could cost you a #databreach, a compliance fine or even application downtime that may erode customer trust.

In the upcoming webinar, Karthik Krishnamoorthy, CTO and Vivek Gopalan, VP of Products at Indusface demonstrate how #APIs could be hacked.

They'll cover:

1. An exploit of #owaspapitop10 vulnerability
2. A brute force account take-over (ATO) attack on API
3. A #DDoS attack on an API
4. How a #WAAP could bolster security over an API gateway

📌 Save your seat now! https://bit.ly/3Mw4Inp

#apiattacks #authentication #authorization #apisecurity #hacking #owasptop10 #ddosattacks #apigateway #bruteforceattacks #ATO #apptrana #indusface

#api #databreach #apis #owaspapitop10 #ddos #waap

EV not Petrol @[email protected] · 2023-06-02 · 21:34 UTC

Tax office accused of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ culture on PwC breach | The Saturday Paper

#auspol #tpb #ato #pwh

Excellent read and analysis by Karen Middleton

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2023/06/03/tax-office-accused-dont-ask-dont-tell-culture-pwc-breach

#auspol #tpb #ato #pwh

Mojo ♻️ @[email protected] · 2023-04-14 · 22:56 UTC

Australia's HECS-HELP debt has topped $74b. How long does it take the average student to pay theirs off?
#ATO has released the country's 100 largest #HECS debts through a Freedom of Information request – and the highest debt is a whopping $737,000.
The second-biggest has ballooned to nearly half a million dollars, with the third coming in at $387,000. The lowest in the top 100 was more than $219,000. #freeeducationforall #auspol #boganNation #AMERICANISATION

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-15/hecs-help-debt-financial-advice-indexation-student-loan/102218826

#ato #hecs #freeeducationforall #auspol #bogannation #americanisation