Cortex XSIAM FedRAMP compliance for federal agencies ↗

Cortex XSIAM is FedRAMP High- and Moderate-authorized for U.S. federal agencies and regulated industries. FedRAMP-authorized Cortex XSIAM tenants provide isolated government cloud environments, U.S. data residency, and secure federal network access.

FedRAMP security and infrastructure architecture

FedRAMP Cortex XSIAM environments use the following compliance safeguards:

• Isolation: Dedicated single-tenant instances that are physically and logically isolated from the commercial user base.
• Data sovereignty: All logs and ingested data remain strictly within the United States.
• Infrastructure: Usage of government-specific infrastructure, such as AWS GovCloud or Azure Government.
• Secure egress: Implementation of federal FQDNs, such as p-proxy.federal.paloaltonetworks.com, to secure all egress traffic paths.
• Scanning rights: FedRAMP instances are authorized to scan both secure government and standard commercial cloud accounts, whereas commercial instances are strictly prohibited from accessing government-authorized environments.

Software Composition Analysis (SCA) in FedRAMP

Application Security Software Composition Analysis (SCA) is available in FedRAMP and Government (Gov) tenant environments. Organizations operating under FedRAMP or public-sector compliance requirements can scan open-source dependencies for known vulnerabilities (CVEs), license miscompliance, and package operational risks using the same SCA scanner available in commercial environments.

SCA in FedRAMP/Gov tenants uses the same enablement and prerequisites as commercial tenants:

• The Application Security module is active on the tenant
• At least one VCS integration is onboarded
• The SCA scanner is enabled for the target repositories
• At least one periodic or PR scan has completed

No FedRAMP-specific configuration is required.

For more information on SCA, refer to Software Composition Analysis (SCA ).