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What is FedRAMP 20x?
FedRAMP provides a standardized security assessment framework for cloud services used by U.S. federal agencies. While essential for doing business with the federal government, the process is complex, slow-moving, and resource-intensive.
Enter FedRAMP 20X: an initiative designed to modernize and streamline the compliance process. While still in development, FedRAMP 20X represents a bold shift from point-in-time evaluations to automated, continuous security validation, reflecting how modern applications are built and how they need to be secured.
While 20X represents the future, FedRAMP Rev. 5 is still the present. Cloud service providers (CSPs) must meet today’s requirements for vulnerability remediation, hardened baselines, and supply chain integrity without slowing down their teams or introducing risky upgrades.
That’s where Seal Security comes in. Designed for the future of compliance, Seal’s platform prepares CSPs for FedRAMP 20X by enabling automated patching, secure base images, and continuous open source remediation without disrupting developer workflows.
In our latest eBook, "Navigating FedRAMP Compliance for Open Source Software with Seal Security," we break down how to meet the evolving requirements in depth without falling behind on remediation timelines or struggling with unpatchable dependencies, Linux operating systems, and vulnerable container images.
Seal Security helps CSPs meet today’s FedRAMP Rev. 5 requirements by addressing one of the toughest challenges: securing open source components from application code to operating systems (OS) and container images.
Seal’s platform enables continuous, automated remediation of vulnerabilities across all layers, reducing the manual burden of patching and ensuring compliance with key Rev. 5 controls for vulnerability management, hardened baselines, and supply chain security.
Seal Apps addresses the security of open source libraries and application dependencies. Seal Apps provides comprehensive vulnerability remediation for open source components used in the application layer, such as the Java Spring Boot framework.
Unlike other tools, which just flag vulnerable components, Seal Apps integrates into your source control to automatically detect and patch vulnerabilities in open source dependencies. It goes a step further by offering one-click patching of those vulnerabilities. Instead of forcing an upgrade to the latest library version, which includes a fix for the vulnerability, Seal Apps helps you stay secure with standalone security patches for the specific issue. This allows development teams to fix security issues without introducing breaking changes or major version updates, and without taking on the massive engineering effort typically required to update their application stack.
From a FedRAMP Rev. 5 perspective, it means organizations can remediate known CVEs in their software quickly and predictably, staying within the 30/90/180-day windows.
The Seal OS targets the operating system layer, delivering automated vulnerability remediation for Linux environments without requiring difficult migrations. It automatically remediates open source vulnerabilities without the need to upgrade your environment. Our method is applicable for containers, virtual machines, and bare metal environments.
For FedRAMP Rev. 5 compliance, Seal OS helps ensure that organizations’ underlying servers and instances are never lagging on patches. It can apply security-relevant OS updates within days or even hours of release, keeping them well ahead of FedRAMP’s 30-day patch deadline for high-risk vulnerabilities.
Another major benefit is extended support for end-of-life (EOL) systems. FedRAMP rules discourage the use of unsupported software, since vendors stop providing patches. Seal OS delivers post-EOL security patches for Linux distributions that have reached end-of-life. This capability allows organizations to stay FedRAMP compliant and secure even when their Linux distribution reaches its end-of-life.
Seal Base Images delivers production-ready base images that are actively maintained and kept free from known CVEs. Each image is hardened according to FedRAMP Rev. 5 baselines and supports compliance frameworks like STIG, CIS, FIPS, and PCI DSS 4.0. These prebuilt, production-ready, vulnerability-free images give teams a compliant foundation for containerization without the complexity of manual patching or remediation, which is not always available even with the latest version.
Organizations can deploy with confidence knowing that every image is secure by default and designed to pass even the most rigorous security audits.
Continuous monitoring with Seal OS helps CSPs meet FedRAMP's requirements by enabling the patching of legacy systems. These fixes can be documented as compensating controls.
Cryptographically signed patches delivered as signed binaries and updates for application-level and OS patches, ensure the authenticity and integrity of the patches, aligning with FedRAMP’s focus on supply chain security and secure configurations.
Automatic remediation of vulnerable packages can be sealed automatically whenever a new vulnerability is made public.
Updated SBOMs and reporting can be generated for applications and images. This simplifies the task of tracking open source components and producing evidence for FedRAMP auditors. With an up-to-date SBOM and Seal’s remediation history, monthly reporting becomes easier. Organizations can demonstrate that all components are known and all critical patches have been applied. Seal’s tooling essentially helps automate POA&M maintenance. Vulnerabilities are identified, fixed, and documented in a continuous loop, supporting FedRAMP’s Continuous Monitoring model of ongoing assessment.
72-hour CVE guaranteed remediation SLA for critical and high-severity vulnerabilities helps organizations meet FedRAMP’s aggressive remediation timelines and maintain compliance.
To learn more about how Seal Security assists providers in maintaining FedRAMP compliance, please read our eBook, "Navigating FedRAMP Compliance for Open Source Software with Seal Security.”
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