EvidenceSheet
FedRAMP High (NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 baseline) · SA - System and Services Acquisition

SA-1 Policy and Procedures

Requires a system and services acquisition policy and supporting procedures to be developed, documented, disseminated, reviewed and updated on a defined cycle.

Source: FedRAMP High (NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 baseline), SA-1. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open FedRAMP High (NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 baseline) in the compliance library.

A FedRAMP baseline is a subset of NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, enhancements included.

6
artefacts
0
held by a system
3
at each review
hard
to go live
Policy repository / GRC workspace
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

none for this control

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

  • Threat modelling and design review evidence for major releases · Document repository
  • Static and dynamic code analysis reports with finding remediation · Document repository
  • Vendor security questionnaires and SOC reports retained · Vendor register / contract repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • SSP SA-1 statement naming the system and services acquisition policy owner and its review cadence (policy yearly for High, at least every three years for Moderate; procedures yearly for both) · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • System and services acquisition policy with approval and review history · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Software bill of materials for in scope products · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

No system holds this evidence for you: it is people and documents. Reminders and routing to the owner still save time. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date.

Common gaps auditors find

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