FedRAMP
The federal government's standardized program for cloud security authorization. Required to sell cloud services to most US federal agencies.
Mapped, monitored, and audit-ready.
Every FedRAMP control has a place in Talarity — with cross-mapping, automated evidence, and continuous validation.
Talarity's pre-built control library covering FedRAMP, with linked evidence, owners, and testing schedules.
Answer once, prove everywhere. Talarity's mapping engine reuses your evidence across every framework you run.
- System Security Plan (SSP) sections aligned to NIST 800-53 Rev 5
- Continuous monitoring (ConMon) deliverables
- Vulnerability scan output (DHS-approved scanner outputs)
- Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) with NIST severity ratings
- Annual assessments and significant change requests
Your FedRAMP dashboard
Every completed FedRAMP assessment updates this automatically — where you stand now, how that has changed, and which areas need work.
What gets easier with Talarity.
FedRAMP authorization is a multi-year project. Most CSPs lose track of evidence freshness midway through.
Talarity tags every artifact with a freshness window. Stale evidence becomes a finding before your 3PAO ever notices.
ConMon deliverables (monthly POA&Ms, quarterly scan results, annual assessments) are easy to miss.
ConMon calendar with automated reminders, deliverable templates, and submission packages pre-formatted for your authorizing official.
Boundary diagrams and data flow diagrams need updating any time the system changes — and keeping them current is manual.
Asset registry generates boundary and data flow diagrams from your live infrastructure. Change something? The diagram updates and a Significant Change Request is queued.
Customer responsibility matrices (CRMs) for SaaS-on-IaaS aren't standardized.
CRM templates per common stack (AWS GovCloud, Azure Gov, GCP Assured Workloads) — pre-mapped to NIST 800-53 controls.
FedRAMP — common questions
- What is the difference between a JAB and an Agency authorisation?
- Historically a cloud service could pursue a Provisional Authorization to Operate from the Joint Authorization Board, or an Authority to Operate sponsored by a single federal agency. The agency route requires a sponsor with a genuine need for the service, which is why most providers start by winning the customer and then pursuing authorisation with them. FedRAMP's governance has been undergoing modernisation, so confirm the current authorisation paths with the programme before planning a timeline.
- How are FedRAMP impact levels decided?
- Impact levels follow FIPS 199 categorisation of the information handled — Low, Moderate or High, based on the consequences of a loss of confidentiality, integrity or availability. The level determines the NIST SP 800-53 control baseline you must implement, and Moderate is the most common for general-purpose services. Getting categorisation wrong is expensive in both directions: too high and you build controls you do not need, too low and the authorisation will not cover your customers' data.
- What is continuous monitoring under FedRAMP?
- Authorisation is not a one-time event. Providers submit monthly vulnerability scan results and POA&M updates, report significant changes for approval before making them, and undergo annual assessment by a Third Party Assessment Organization. The operational burden after authorisation is generally larger than the effort to achieve it, which is why evidence collection needs to be automated rather than assembled by hand each month.
- What is a POA&M?
- A Plan of Action and Milestones records each known weakness, its risk, the remediation plan, the responsible party and the scheduled completion date. Open findings are expected — what is assessed is whether they are tracked honestly, prioritised by risk, and closed within the timeframes appropriate to their severity. A POA&M that quietly slips its dates is treated more seriously than the original finding.
Working with FedRAMP
Step-by-step walkthroughs from the Talarity library.
- Compliance·8 min readPackage your audit evidence once — for the auditor, regulator, or customerAn auditor asks for your evidence and it's scattered across framework reports, vendor attestations, policy sign-offs, and resilience tests. Evidence Distribution Packages assemble the signed artifacts you already produced into one immutable package, then hand it to each audience as a redacted, watermarked, time-limited copy — with a record of who received what.
- Compliance·7 min readFramework readiness to audit package — the whole cycle on one screenAudit prep usually means a spreadsheet scramble — chasing evidence, tracking which controls are covered, re-checking what's expired. Talarity keeps a live readiness picture for every framework (SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS, and more) — coverage, gaps, evidence freshness — and packages it into an auditor-ready export in one click.
- Compliance·7 min readContinuous compliance is a tooling problem, not a process problemEvery compliance program eventually decides it needs to be 'continuous.' Most then try to fix it with process. The actual fix is upstream — in the tools that make evidence freshness a default, not a sprint.
- Compliance·14 min readThe evidence nobody can deleteA legal hold is a promise that a specific piece of evidence will still exist months from now, made to people who will check. This is where you place one in Talarity, what the record has to survive, and — just as important — what a hold does not freeze.
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