SDR Security Decision Record

The Security Decision Record replaced a traditional System Security Plan with a persistently maintained, verified, and validated record of the security decisions made by the cloud service provider over the lifecycle of their cloud service offering.

Effective for 20x

• Status: required
• Current status: Consolidated Rules for 2026
• Optional adoption from: 2026-07-04
• Required for initial certification from: 2026-07-04
• Required for ongoing certification from: 2027-01-01
• Grace period ends: 2027-01-01 or at the next assessment

Effective for Rev5

• Status: required
• Current status: Consolidated Rules for 2026
• Optional adoption from: 2026-07-04
• Required for initial certification from: 2027-01-01
• Required for ongoing certification from: 2027-08-01
• Grace period ends: 2027-08-01 or at the next assessment

1. Overview

1.1 References

1.2 Identified Requirements

1.3 Related Regulations

2. Identified Requirements

3. Related Regulations

• FedRAMP Consolidated Rules -

  EN: FedRAMP® Consolidated Rules of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), https://www.fedramp.gov/, from their machine-readable version (FedRAMP/rules). Works of the U.S. Government are not subject to copyright protection in the United States (17 U.S.C. § 105; GSA website policies); GSA dedicated its machine-readable FedRAMP content to the public domain worldwide (CC0 1.0). FedRAMP® is a registered trademark of GSA; GRCA is not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, GSA or FedRAMP. Divided into sections and converted into the GRCA format, the wording unchanged, linked to the NIST SP 800-53 controls they name. Only the version published by FedRAMP is authoritative.

  DE: FedRAMP® Consolidated Rules des Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), https://www.fedramp.gov/, aus ihrer maschinenlesbaren Fassung (FedRAMP/rules). Werke der US-Regierung sind in den USA urheberrechtlich nicht geschützt (17 U.S.C. § 105; Website-Richtlinien der GSA); die GSA hat ihre maschinenlesbaren FedRAMP-Inhalte weltweit gemeinfrei gestellt (CC0 1.0). FedRAMP® ist eine eingetragene Marke der GSA; GRCA steht in keiner Verbindung zur GSA oder zu FedRAMP und wird von ihnen nicht unterstützt. In Abschnitte aufgeteilt und in das GRCA-Format umgewandelt, der Wortlaut unverändert, mit den genannten Controls aus NIST SP 800-53 verknüpft. Maßgeblich ist allein die von FedRAMP veröffentlichte Fassung.