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Relativity | November 10, 2020

Relativity, a worldwide lawful and consistence innovation organization, today reported it has accomplished Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Authority to Operate (ATO) at the Moderate security sway level for its RelativityOne Government administration offering. Relativity accomplished this approval in organization with its supporting office, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), achieving ATO for EPA's committed climate as extended on Sept. 14.

FedRAMP is one of the most broad security approvals SaaS organizations can accomplish. It gives a normalized way to deal with security appraisal, approval and persistent observing for cloud items and administrations to guarantee all government information is secure in cloud conditions. Relativity got FedRAMP ATO after a broad survey measure that included a serious appraisal intended to search out security shortcomings. With this assignment, RelativityOne Government is currently a completely consistent stage affirmed for use by national government offices.

"Federal government agencies and organizations in highly regulated industries are under immense pressure to pivot efficiently and safely to the cloud, which requires a security protocol that leaves no room for doubt," said Amanda Fennell, Chief Security Officer at Relativity. "Achieving FedRAMP ATO is a true testament to Relativity's commitment to meet these rapidly evolving and rigorous demands placed on federal agencies. FedRAMP authorization is another validation point for the robust security posture that protects all of our customers, and the improvements made to get here will benefit every team entrusting their data to RelativityOne."

As Relativity's support, the EPA has just exploited the safe, open stage to fabricate custom applications to handle special difficulties like overseeing high-volume Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) demands. The EPA depends on Relativity to fabricate a steady arrangement of e-disclosure rehearses over the organization and productively produce data for FOIA demands.

"We partnered with Relativity in their pursuit of FedRAMP authorization because of RelativityOne's ability to handle our influx of FOIA requests, its secure e-discovery platform and the collaborative nature of its SaaS solution," said Vaughn Noga, Chief Information Officer and Deputy Assistant Administrator for Environmental Information at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "EPA issued an ATO in September of 2020 and now that RelativityOne Government is FedRAMP authorized it will allow others in the U.S. Federal Government to utilize this e-discovery platform and tool to assist in handling e-discovery and FOIA needs."

Based on Microsoft Azure Government Cloud, RelativityOne Government enables bureaucratic organizations to manage the especially mind boggling and eccentric information that originates from administrative suit, examinations and FOIA demands. With gigantic information volumes and short cutoff times, Relativity's start to finish e-revelation abilities, ground-breaking Relativity examination and Artificial Intelligence, and new Aero UI permit government organizations to discover reality in their information quicker.

About Relativity

At Relativity, we make software to help users organize data, discover the truth, and act on it. Our platform is used by more than 13,000 organizations around the world to manage large volumes of data and quickly identify key issues during litigation, internal investigations, and compliance operations with SaaS platform RelativityOne and Relativity Trace. Relativity has users in 48+ countries from organizations, including the U.S. Department of Justice, and 199 of the Am Law 200. Relativity has been named one of Chicago's Top Workplaces by the Chicago Tribune for 10 consecutive years.

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