Compliance & Regulations/North America/FISMA
Sovereign / National · United States — federal civilian agencies

FISMA

Federal Information Security Modernization Act — the legislative basis for the NIST RMF lifecycle in the US federal government.

Regulator
OMB / NIST / DHS
Jurisdiction
United States — federal civilian agencies
Status
Active (Modernization Act, 2014).
In force since
Active
Regulator's source
Who it applies to

All federal civilian agencies and their information systems.

Audit / certification status

Continuous evidence pipeline available; audit support included for all customers.

What it requires

What FISMA actually requires.

These are the obligations a regulated entity owes — the things an assessor or supervisor will ask about.

01

Annual agency CIO and Inspector General reports to OMB on the state of agency information security.

02

Adoption of NIST 800-53 and the Risk Management Framework (NIST 800-37).

03

FIPS 199 system categorisation (Low / Moderate / High) and FIPS 200 minimum controls.

04

Continuous monitoring strategy per OMB M-19-03 and M-22-09.

How Safeguard maps to it

Pre-mapped controls. Continuous evidence.

Each requirement above is bound to live telemetry — not screenshots. The mapping below is what your auditor or regulator sees.

Inherits FedRAMP-authorised baselines; FISMA reporting is the agency layer above.

Reporting templates pre-populated from underlying NIST 800-53 telemetry.

Evidence we produce

Artifacts your auditor accepts.

Each evidence artifact is signed and timestamped. Auditors can verify integrity without trusting Safeguard.

Annual FISMA report data pack.

Quarterly CDM-aligned metrics exports.

Ready for FISMA?

Bring the framework. We'll walk the controls with you — section by section, evidence packet by evidence packet, with the regulators you actually have to answer to.

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