FedRAMP High CIAM platform

Yes. Descope is FedRAMP High Authorized, the program's most stringent impact level, and is listed on the FedRAMP Marketplace, so federal agencies, contractors, and system integrators can procure it directly. Companies use Descope as the identity layer for their government offering without running a multi-quarter authorization effort of their own.

A typical FedRAMP environment goes live in about 6 to 8 weeks, a fraction of the time it takes to build a government-grade identity stack in-house or stand one up through a slower incumbent. Descope Customer Success runs most of the deployment with you, including onboarding, provisioning, and configuration, and you never manage the underlying government cloud infrastructure yourself. 

Yes. Descope runs a separate FedRAMP High environment for your government users alongside your existing commercial environment, both on Descope, so you don't maintain two different identity stacks. Your team builds and operates auth the same way it already does, with FedRAMP deployment handled together with Descope Customer Success.

As of publication, Auth0 (Okta Customer Identity Cloud) is not FedRAMP authorized, and neither are several other popular CIAM providers such as WorkOS. The moment a federal agency or FedRAMP-bound customer enters the pipeline, a non-authorized login stack becomes the blocker. That is why teams migrate to Descope, using its migration tooling and AI agent skills to move users, flows, and tenants across without downtime. 

No. The FedRAMP environment carries US-only traffic and cannot authenticate non-US persons, so users outside the US belong in a separate, non-FedRAMP environment. Descope runs both off the same platform, so you serve US government users in the authorized environment and everyone else in your commercial one. 

Descope covers the controls reviewers look for: role-based access control with least privilege, phishing-resistant MFA (FIDO2/WebAuthn passkeys, TOTP, SMS OTP), configurable session timeouts, and comprehensive audit logging of every authentication and administrative event, with events streaming to your SIEM. Data resides in a US Gov region with TLS 1.2+ in transit and AES-256 at rest. Descope publishes a public FedRAMP Security Admin Guide covering the customer-responsible configuration. 

Yes. The Descope Engine runs inside your own environment and reaches private backend resources over outbound-only gRPC without opening inbound ports, so identity flows can talk to internal systems without punching holes in a hardened network.