The Future of Rev5
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Rev 5 requires cloud service providers to move away from document-based, annual-assessment security approaches toward continuous monitoring and real-time vulnerability detection to maintain FedRAMP certification.
Advice
- Implement continuous vulnerability scanning and detection rather than relying on once-yearly assessments, as annual reviews are insufficient for current security standards.
- When evaluating vulnerabilities, factor in whether systems are internet-reachable and likely to be exploitable, not just the existence of vulnerabilities themselves.
- Review FedRAMP Rev 5 requirements actively and make ongoing changes to your security program, rather than dusting off the same playbook each year.
- Understand that compliance expectations will shift within months and a year, so build flexibility into your security operations from the start.
- Avoid keeping your security approach static after initial Rev 5 certification, as doing so puts your FedRAMP status at risk.
Mentioned
- Standards: FedRAMP, Rev 5
Numbers to remember
- About 95% of currently FedRAMP-certified cloud services operate under the older document-based security model that Rev 5 is designed to replace.
Read the transcript
There's a whole thing here about Rev 5 versus 20 acts. What's the future? What is it what happens here, right? And I think it's important to understand that Rev 5 does not continue on unchanged. Rev 5 must be changed. We cannot allow every single or 95% of the current FedRAMP certified cloud services. They cannot be allowed to continue on with a security approach that is document based that is once a year assessments that does not have the agility and responsiveness things like once a month vulnerability scans are absolutely untenable in today's day and age. We need every single cloud service provider to be moving towards complex nuanced vulnerability detection and response where you're calculating different aspects of how it might affect your customers. Is it internet reachable? Is it likely to be exploitable? If you're not factoring for all of this stuff, you're not running a moderate security program. And so Rev 5 is still having all that modernization and that change baked into it. Six months from now cloud service providers will be doing something different. A year from now, if you're on the Rev 5 path, if you're you come in through Rev 5 and that type of certification you will be doing your continuous monitoring and your package different. If you have been doing mostly the same thing and you've dusted off the playbook every year since Rev 5 and just continues to do the same thing over and over again that's not going to be the case anymore. You have to look at these rules. You have to understand the requirements and you have to make changes for your system. If you don't you put your FedRAMP certification at risk.
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- Issuer
- General Services Administration (GSA), including the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP)
- Type
- FedRAMP video
- Issued
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Published
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