For FedRAMP programs

FedRAMP compliance, made boring.

Government cloud security monitoring on your ConMon cadence, with evidence for NIST SP 800-53 controls and exports your 3PAO can use in the monthly package. No bespoke tooling, no spreadsheets.

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What FedRAMP asks for

The requirements, in plain English.

ConMon

Continuous monitoring

FedRAMP requires monthly vulnerability scans, ongoing assessment, and timely POA&M updates for any cloud service used by a federal agency. Barrion runs the scans on the cadence your ConMon plan requires.

NIST 800-53

Evidence for NIST controls

Findings give evidence for RA-5 (vulnerability scanning), SI-2 (flaw remediation), CA-7 (continuous monitoring) and SC controls. Each carries a CVSS severity you can cite against the controls your 3PAO is testing.

ATO

Authorization to operate

Keep the monitoring evidence flowing between annual assessments. Exports are formatted so they drop straight into your SSP appendices and monthly ConMon submissions.

Pentest evidence

Testing evidence for FedRAMP.

Your 3PAO's annual assessment includes a penetration test, and CA-8 covers penetration testing. Barrion isn't a 3PAO, but its AI pentest produces WSTG-mapped reports that support your own testing and remediation tracking between assessments. Monitoring supports RA-5 and CA-7.

Report

Mapped to OWASP WSTG

Each AI pentest report comes as PDF, XLSX and JSON with an OWASP WSTG coverage matrix. Your auditor sees what was tested, not only what was found.

Review

A security engineer reviews

From Standard up a security engineer reviews the findings. Deeper tests come with a report signed off by that engineer.

Retest

Free retests show the fix

Retesting the issues a pentest found costs nothing. The evidence then shows the finding and the fix, which is the part auditors ask about next.

Continuous

Testing that keeps running

The pentest reruns on a schedule or on demand. Each run labels earlier findings as new, still open, resolved or regressed.

Findings are checked against your live app before they're reported. Confirmed ones come with the request and response, and unconfirmed ones are kept as lower-confidence leads. The monitoring below is the second layer: it keeps a timestamped record between tests.

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How Barrion fits in

How Barrion supports FedRAMP compliance.

ConMon cadence

Scans on your ConMon schedule

Weekly or daily scans against your authorization boundary, well inside the monthly ConMon floor, with results timestamped and retained so you can prove the cadence was actually met.

Assessment

Production-safe vulnerability scanning

Default scans don't submit forms or hit state-changing routes. You can run them against the live boundary without breaking customer data or tripping incident response.

Evidence

Audit-ready exports

PDF and CSV exports with finding, severity, affected asset and remediation status. Hand them to your 3PAO or attach them to the monthly ConMon package.

Detection

Alerting that fits incident response

New critical or high findings page the right channel (Slack, Teams, email) so your incident response plan has something real to trigger on.

The approach

Continuous evidence, not a fire drill.

FedRAMP isn't a one-time audit. It's a continuous evidence machine, and the parts that usually fall over are the ones that depend on someone remembering to run a scan, save the output, attach it to the right ConMon package, and update the POA&M. Barrion runs the scans on the cadence your ConMon plan defines, keeps the artifacts, and records each finding with a CVSS severity you can cite against the NIST controls your 3PAO tests, so most of the evidence is already gathered.

The exports are deterministic and timestamped. The remediation steps are concrete enough that the engineer who owns the surface can act on them in the same sprint. And because the scans are production-safe by default, the monitoring lives in your real authorization boundary instead of a stale copy of it.

✓Weekly or daily scans against your authorization boundary, retained as immutable artifacts
✓Evidence for RA-5, SI-2, CA-7 and relevant SC controls
✓PDF and CSV exports that drop into your ConMon submission
✓Alerting on new criticals so incident response has something real to trigger on
✓Trend data scan-over-scan to show your assessor the program is working

Evidence example

A NIST control mapping, for the ConMon package.

How Barrion's checks line up with NIST SP 800-53 controls. Exports don't carry control tags (pentest reports list CWE, OWASP WSTG and CVSS per finding), so use this as a guide when you cite the evidence:

{
  "boundary_protection_check": "SC-7",
  "transmission_confidentiality": "SC-8",
  "unsuccessful_logon_attempts": "AC-7",
  "vulnerability_scanning_external": "RA-5",
  "flaw_remediation_tracking": "SI-2",
  "continuous_monitoring_evidence": "CA-7"
}

FAQ

FedRAMP questions, answered.

What part of FedRAMP does Barrion actually cover?

Barrion covers the external-facing vulnerability scanning and continuous monitoring evidence requirements (RA-5, CA-7, SI-2). It is not a 3PAO, it doesn't write your SSP, and it doesn't replace authenticated internal scans on host operating systems. It does cover the web-facing attack surface of your authorization boundary, on the cadence your ConMon plan requires, with evidence formatted for submission.

Will the exports hold up in a 3PAO assessment?

They give your 3PAO evidence to work with. Every finding is exportable with its identifier, severity, CVSS, affected asset, first-seen and last-seen timestamps, current status and remediation evidence. You cite it against the NIST controls in your package. Exports are timestamped, so you can show evidence wasn't backfilled. Whether it's enough is your 3PAO's call.

How often does Barrion produce evidence?

Essential runs weekly and Business runs daily, both well inside the monthly FedRAMP ConMon baseline for external scans. Every scan is retained as an immutable evidence artifact, so the cadence itself is auditable.

Is it safe to run against a production authorization boundary?

Yes. Default scan profiles are read-only and explicitly do not submit forms, alter state, or attempt exploitation against live endpoints. They're the same profiles customers use against production SaaS without coordinating an incident response window. Active testing is a separate AI pentest that you start yourself against the target you choose.

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Compliance

Start your ConMon evidence trail.

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