FedRAMP Moderate Baseline
AWS Audit Manager provides a FedRAMP Moderate Baseline framework to assist you with your audit preparation.
What is FedRAMP?
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) was established in 2011. It provides a cost-effective, risk-based approach for the adoption and use of cloud services by the U.S. federal government. FedRAMP empowers federal agencies to use modern cloud technologies, with an emphasis on the security and protection of federal information.
For more information about the FedRAMP moderate baseline controls, see the FedRAMP Moderate Security Test Case Procedures Template
Using this framework to support your audit preparation
You can use the FedRAMP Moderate Baseline framework to help you prepare for audits. This framework includes a prebuilt collection of controls with descriptions and testing procedures. These controls are grouped into control sets according to FedRAMP requirements. You can also customize this framework and its controls to support internal audits with specific requirements.
Using the framework as a starting point, you can create an Audit Manager assessment and start collecting evidence that’s relevant for your audit. After you create an assessment, Audit Manager starts to assess your AWS resources. It does this based on the controls that are defined in the framework. When it's time for an audit, you—or a delegate of your choice—can review the evidence that Audit Manager collected. Either, you can browse the evidence folders in your assessment and choose which evidence you want to include in your assessment report. Or, if you enabled evidence finder, you can search for specific evidence and export it in CSV format, or create an assessment report from your search results. Either way, you can use this assessment report to show that your controls are working as intended.
The FedRAMP Moderate Baseline framework details are as follows:
| Framework name in AWS Audit Manager | Number of automated controls | Number of manual controls | Number of control sets | AWS services in scope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FedRAMP Moderate Baseline | 303 | 908 | 325 |
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To review the AWS Config rules that are used as data source mappings in this standard framework, download the AuditManager_ConfigDataSourceMappings_FedRAMP-Moderate-Baseline.zip file.
The controls in this framework aren't intended to verify if your systems are compliant with FedRAMP. Moreover, they can't guarantee that you'll pass a FedRAMP audit. AWS Audit Manager doesn't automatically check procedural controls that require manual evidence collection.
You can find this framework under the Standard frameworks tab of the Framework library in Audit Manager.
For instructions on how to create an assessment using this framework, see Creating an assessment.
When you use the Audit Manager console to create an assessment from this standard framework, the list of AWS services in scope is selected by default and can’t be edited. This is because Audit Manager automatically maps and selects the data sources and services for you. This selection is made according to the requirements of the FedRAMP Moderate Baseline. If you need to edit the list of services in scope for this framework, you can do so by using the CreateAssessment or UpdateAssessment API operations. Alternatively, you can customize the standard framework and then create an assessment from the custom framework.
For instructions on how to customize this framework to support your specific requirements, see Customizing an existing framework and Customizing an existing control.
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