Simplify FedRAMP and FISMA Compliance with Backslash Security

Navigating the complexities of FedRAMP and FISMA compliance is challenging, with strict security requirements, lengthy timelines, and resource-intensive processes. Backslash Security helps you streamline these efforts by automating vulnerability detection, prioritizing real risks, and ensuring timely remediation—all while keeping your code secure and compliant.

What Are FedRAMP and FISMA?
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FedRAMP standardizes security assessments and monitoring of cloud services for federal agencies, ensuring they meet strict security requirements.

FISMA mandates that federal agencies and contractors implement comprehensive security programs for their information systems.

Both frameworks rely on NIST SP 800-53’s security and privacy controls to protect federal information systems.

Challenges with Achieving Compliance
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Achieving FedRAMP and FISMA compliance is a lengthy, complex process, often taking over a year. Key challenges include:

  • Resource-Intensive: Requires a dedicated team for continuous monitoring, documentation, and remediation.
  • Strict Timelines: High-severity issues must be resolved within 30 days, medium within 90 days, and low within 180 days.
  • Continuous Evidence Requirements: FedRAMP mandates organizations submit updated artifacts every 30 days to demonstrate mitigation of high-risk vulnerabilities, significantly intensifying the compliance workload.
  • AppSec Complexity: Without reachability analysis, even low-severity issues must be remediated, adding significant workload.
How Backslash Helps with FedRAMP and FISMA Compliance
1. Key Controls and Backslash's Solutions
ID Name How Backslash Helps
SA-11 (1) Static Code Analysis Backslash performs static code analysis to find vulnerabilities in code, packages, and secrets.
SA-11 (2) Threat Modeling and Assessment Backslash integrates into CI/CD pipelines to assess vulnerabilities during development, helping document and manage risks early.
RS-2 Supply Chain Risk Management Plan Backslash helps prevent supply chain attacks by detecting malicious packages and mitigating risks.
RS-3 Supply Chain Controls Backslash assesses third-party packages for vulnerabilities, addressing weaknesses in the supply chain.
How Backslash Helps
SA-11 (1) Static Code Analysis Backslash performs static code analysis to find vulnerabilities in code, packages, and secrets.
SA-11 (2) Threat Modeling and Assessment Backslash integrates into CI/CD pipelines to assess vulnerabilities during development, helping document and manage risks early.
RS-2 Supply Chain Risk Management Plan Backslash helps prevent supply chain attacks by detecting malicious packages and mitigating risks.
RS-3 Supply Chain Controls Backslash assesses third-party packages for vulnerabilities, addressing weaknesses in the supply chain.
2. Vulnerability Prioritization and Deviation Management
Feature How Backslash Helps
Effective Prioritization Reachability analysis ensures focus on exploitable vulnerabilities, cutting through noise and reducing workload.
Low False-Positive Rates Accurate vulnerability detection with low false positives enables teams to fix real issues faster and provide evidence for audits.
Customization of Criticality Teams can define severity levels for vulnerabilities, aligning policies with real organizational risks rather than vendor-determined ratings.
Vulnerability Deviation Support Reachability analysis helps justify vulnerability deviation requests, reducing unnecessary remediation and supporting compliance.
How Backslash Helps
Effective Prioritization Reachability analysis ensures focus on exploitable vulnerabilities, cutting through noise and reducing workload.
Low False-Positive Rates Accurate vulnerability detection with low false positives enables teams to fix real issues faster and provide evidence for audits.
Customization of Criticality Teams can define severity levels for vulnerabilities, aligning policies with real organizational risks rather than vendor-determined ratings.
Vulnerability Deviation Support Reachability analysis helps justify vulnerability deviation requests, reducing unnecessary remediation and supporting compliance.
3. Process Implementation & SLA Management


Backslash addresses the challenge of managing security debt, SLA  adherence, and automation with these key capabilities:

Feature How Backslash Helps
Issue-Policy Definition Define detailed criteria for “Critical,” “High,” “Medium,” and “Low” issues, ensuring proper classification.
Projects Scope repositories and directories to apply automation to the right areas.
Automation Policies Automate actions like ticket creation, assigning tasks to relevant teams, and mapping fields like severity for smooth management.
Setting Due Dates Automatically assign due dates based on issue severity, ensuring adherence to SLAs and supporting compliance.
How Backslash Helps
Issue-Policy Definition Define detailed criteria for “Critical,” “High,” “Medium,” and “Low” issues, ensuring proper classification.
Projects Scope repositories and directories to apply automation to the right areas.
Automation Policies Automate actions like ticket creation, assigning tasks to relevant teams, and mapping fields like severity for smooth management.
Setting Due Dates Automatically assign due dates based on issue severity, ensuring adherence to SLAs and supporting compliance.
FedRamp and FISMA Process using Backslash
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Automated Vulnerability Detection

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Prioritize Based on Risk and Reachability

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Automated Ticketing & SLA Enforcement

Fix by Prioritization

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Capital RX uses Backslash as their primary code security tool to comply with FISMA requirements. They rely on Backslash for automatic ticket creation, SLA management, and CI process integration to prevent new vulnerabilities.

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