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FedXchange keeps every binding rule a federal security program follows, from the Privacy Act of 1974 to this morning's watch, and says what changed and why it matters in plain English. With a free account, it writes the policies that name the tools your agency actually runs.

1The provider hires the assessorIn practice, the cloud provider still selects and pays theindependent assessor.2The assessor verifies and validatesIt tests the real mechanisms, including code where appropriate,against every FedRAMP rule that applies.3Findings go into the provider's recordsSummaries for each practice go into the provider's Security DecisionRecord. An overall summary, including failures and disputes, goesinto the overview of the provider's certification package.4The assessor checks its findings arrived intactIt must confirm they were included without inappropriate changes. Theprovider should not edit their substance.5FedRAMP reviews and certifiesThe assessor joins FedRAMP's review to explain its process, findings,and concerns. FedRAMP makes the decision.6The agency decides its own useThe agency reads the package, configures and tests its own use of theservice, and issues its own authorization to operate.

How an assessor's findings reach the agency under CR26

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  1. The provider hires the assessor. In practice, the cloud provider still selects and pays the independent assessor.
  2. The assessor verifies and validates. It tests the real mechanisms, including code where appropriate, against every FedRAMP rule that applies.
  3. Findings go into the provider's records. Summaries for each practice go into the provider's Security Decision Record. An overall summary, including failures and disputes, goes into the overview of the provider's certification package.
  4. The assessor checks its findings arrived intact. It must confirm they were included without inappropriate changes. The provider should not edit their substance.
  5. FedRAMP reviews and certifies. The assessor joins FedRAMP's review to explain its process, findings, and concerns. FedRAMP makes the decision.
  6. The agency decides its own use. The agency reads the package, configures and tests its own use of the service, and issues its own authorization to operate.

FedRAMP retires the third-party assessment organization (3PAO): what changes for independence and agency risk

· FedRAMP

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) has retired the third-party assessment organization (3PAO). Assessors now verify and validate instead of recommending approval, which helps independence, adds new pressures, and leaves the risk decision with the agency.

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No longer in effect
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Most policy templates say “the organization employs an automated tool.” Staff can't follow that, and assessors ask which tool you mean. FedXchange reads your agency's FedRAMP Marketplace authorizations, suggests a service for each of 18 security functions, and writes 69 plain-language policies, procedures, and plans that name the services and titles you confirm.

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  1. Step 1: Name your agency

    FedXchange finds the cloud products your agency has authorized on the FedRAMP Marketplace and suggests one for each security function, such as identity management or vulnerability scanning.

    How we pick each suggested service

  2. Step 2: Confirm your choices

    Confirm a service for each of 18 functions, including services the government runs, and set your own titles for 50 offices and roles.

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  3. Step 3: Get your documents

    FedXchange writes 69 policies, procedures, and plans that name what you confirmed. Download each one as a Word file.

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  4. Step 4: Stay current

    The governance watch checks federal sources every day and tells you which of your documents a change touches.

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Suggested services

Example

  • Identity provider

    Your authorization

    Matched to your Marketplace authorization

  • SIEM and log management

    Your platform

    Covered by your cloud platform's authorization

  • Vulnerability disclosure

    Shared service

    CISA Vulnerability Disclosure Policy Platform

  • Learning management

    Generic name until you choose

    “the learning management system”

Nothing is used until you confirm it.How we pick each suggested service

Incident Response Plan, section 4

Example

The Security Operations Center watches alerts from your log management service around the clock.

When an alert may be an incident, the analyst opens a ticket in your ticketing service and tells the Information System Security Officer within one hour.

The highlighted words come from your answers: the services you confirmed and the titles your agency uses.

69 documents, written in plain language

29 policies · 24 procedures · 9 plans · 7 templates, rules of behavior, and references

  • Information Security Program Plan
  • Incident Response Plan
  • Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) Strategy
  • Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration Plan
  • Rules of Behavior — Privileged Users
  • and 64 more
  • Your names, not placeholders. Where a template says “the organization employs an automated tool,” yours names the service you confirmed and the office that runs it.
  • Every real option, side by side. For each function, FedXchange lists the FedRAMP Marketplace products that fit it (157 listings in all, as of October 20, 2026), your agency's own first, and the 9 services the government runs itself in 8 of the 18 functions, which never appear among your authorizations. See the functions and the shared services
  • Checked before you see them. Each document cites the federal sources it rests on and passes a fixed series of checks, from source currency to a review board of 16 reviewer roles. They are drafts: nothing is final until a person at your agency approves it.
  • Word files you can edit, written again when you change an answer. Each comes with your agency's cover and a filled table of contents. Pick a new service or retitle an office, and the next draft says so everywhere it matters.
  • No AI writes them. A fixed generator writes every document, so the same answers always give the same text. Your own AI assistant can connect over the Model Context Protocol to review suggestions and record choices; every change waits for your yes. How assistants connect
  • Coming nextDrafted updates: when a source changes, FedXchange proposes new wording for a person to approve.

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