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Baselines

FedRAMP's baselines are available in OSCAL XML, JSON and YAML formats.

Quick Start

Jump straight to what you need.

OSCAL enables a lot of flexibility with baselines and overlays, but you need to get started quickly and just want a single file with exactly the controls you need.

The following OSCAL "resolved profile" catalogs are exactly what you need:

  • FedRAMP HIGH Baseline (OSCAL Catalog) [ XML | JSON | YAML ]
  • FedRAMP MODERATE Baseline (OSCAL Catalog) [ XML | JSON | YAML ]
  • FedRAMP LOW Baseline (OSCAL Catalog) [ XML | JSON | YAML ]
  • FedRAMP LI-SaaS Baseline (OSCAL Catalog) [ XML | JSON | YAML ]

OSCAL Tailoring and Overlways

OSCAL is designed to be referential. It allows tailoring and control overlays. When your OSCAL provessing requires more flexible management of your control baselines, the FedRAMP profiles are available.

The following structure is used:

The following OSCLAL catalogs and profies are available:

  • NIST SP 800-53, Revision 5 (OSCAL Catalog) [ XML | JSON | YAML ]

  • FedRAMP Tailoring Profile (OSCAL Profile) [ XML | JSON | YAML ]

  • FedRAMP HIGH Baseline (OSCAL Profile) [ XML | JSON | YAML ]

  • FedRAMP MODERATE Baseline (OSCAL Profile) [ XML | JSON | YAML ]

  • FedRAMP LOW Baseline (OSCAL Profile) [ XML | JSON | YAML ]

  • FedRAMP LI-SaaS Baseline (OSCAL Profile) [ XML | JSON | YAML ]