Delivering Trusted, Scalable Visibility: Riverbed Platform for Government Achieves FedRAMP® Class D (High) Certification
Meeting the federal government's most stringent cloud security standards for protecting sensitive, unclassified data while supporting secure IT modernization initiatives.
- By Bill Roberts
- 11-Jun-2026
In my time at Riverbed, I’ve had the privilege of working alongside our government partners to deliver technology that meets mission-critical demands while anticipating the future of secure, scalable infrastructure.
Today, I’m proud to share an important milestone on that journey: Riverbed has achieved FedRAMP® Class D (High) Certification for the Riverbed Platform for Government, now listed on the FedRAMP Marketplace.
Why FedRAMP Matters: Milliseconds Matter to Mission Success
This achievement is more than a compliance milestone. It reflects Riverbed’s commitment to delivering trusted, resilient observability that enables Civilian, DoD, and federal agencies to operate with speed, precision, and confidence at mission scale.
In today’s environment, performance is mission-critical. When every second counts, agencies need complete visibility across users, applications, and networks to detect and resolve issues before they impact operations.
What is FedRAMP Class D?
FedRAMP Class D, the equivalent of what was formerly called FedRAMP High, sets a rigorous standard for protecting sensitive federal data in cloud environments, including Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). Riverbed is proud to be among the first Digital Employee Experience (DEX) platforms to achieve this milestone. Achieving this certification requires strict security controls, continuous monitoring, and a resilient architecture designed for both compliance and operational continuity.
Just as important, Riverbed uses the same core SaaS code base for both federal and commercial customers. As a result, Riverbed commercial customers directly benefit from the same hardened security architecture, operational controls, compliance processes, and platform rigor required to satisfy some of the most demanding cybersecurity standards in the world.
The Strategic Edge of SaaS for Government Agencies
From the outset, we designed the Riverbed Platform for Government from the ground up to meet Class D requirements with a unified approach, simplifying compliance while maintaining strong security, performance, and resilience. With the current federal focus on maximizing efficiency, transitioning from traditional on-premises systems to cloud-native, SaaS-based architectures is no longer just an option. It is a necessity. SaaS solutions offer several compelling benefits over legacy on-prem solutions:
- Dynamic Scalability: Seamlessly scales to meet fluctuating user demands, whether supporting a small team or hundreds of thousands of users, without requiring costly, time-consuming infrastructure upgrades.
- Security at Scale: Deployed on AWS GovCloud, the platform allows agencies to benefit from specialized Riverbed teams that continuously monitor, patch, and harden system security. This delivers a level of protection that is difficult to replicate in siloed, on-prem environments.
- Cost Efficiency: By reducing hardware dependencies, maintenance overhead, and specialized staffing needs, agencies can reallocate critical resources away from infrastructure upkeep and back to their core missions.
- Continuous Innovation: SaaS ensures our government customers receive automatic updates and cutting-edge features without operational disruption, keeping them steps ahead of evolving cyber threats.
- Built-in Ecosystem Integration: Because the platform is built on AWS GovCloud, federal agencies gain instant, trusted integration with other critical government SaaS and cloud solutions, such as Microsoft 365.
We’re confident that as more agencies embrace SaaS, they’ll continue to unlock operational advantages that simply aren’t possible with legacy IT models.
Committed to the mission, today and tomorrow
Achieving FedRAMP Class D (High) Certification reinforces Riverbed’s role as a trusted partner in Federal modernization. We are excited to help our agency partners eliminate blind spots, optimize digital experiences, and secure their cloud journeys with confidence.
It also marks the next phase of our commitment to federal agencies—delivering observability that not only meets compliance requirements, but enables faster decisions, stronger resilience, and mission success.
Learn more about the Riverbed Platform for Government.
