Frameworks
NIST SP 800-53 — Federal Security Control Catalog
The 1,000-control catalog behind FedRAMP and federal systems — tamed by good tooling.
Book a demoNIST 800-53 is the exhaustive control catalog US federal systems are built on — and the backbone of FedRAMP. Rev 5 spans twenty families from access control to supply-chain risk. Nobody implements all of it; you implement a baseline (Low/Moderate/High) and tailor.
Baselines make it manageable
The catalog is a menu, not a mandate: FIPS 199 categorization picks your impact level, the corresponding baseline picks your controls, and tailoring documents the deltas. The real work is evidence at scale — hundreds of controls each needing an implementation statement and proof.
How Compriska helps
Compriska manages 800-53 as owned, evidenced controls with cross-mapping to the frameworks you already run — the overlap with ISO 27001 and SOC 2 is substantial, so a commercial compliance program becomes a running start on a federal one.
Frequently asked questions
Do commercial companies need 800-53?
Directly, rarely — but selling to US federal agencies (FedRAMP) or defense primes pulls you into its orbit, and some enterprises use it as their internal control catalog.
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