endorlabs.comarticleIdentifying and Tracking FedRAMP False Positives | Endor Labs
Explains how FedRAMP treats false-positive SCA findings, which still have to be tracked in the POA&M and ConMon. It covers the deviation request (DR) process, the SCA problems of scale and missing context (manifest-based inventories, with 88% of imported code unused), and 30–180 day remediation SLAs. It argues that only high-confidence, function-level reachability that holds from any source is likely to satisfy a 3PAO. It then describes how Endor Labs uses call-graph analysis, SBOM/VEX output and rescanning to document false positives.
TL;DR How to identify and document FedRAMP false positives with function-level reachability analysis, SBOM and VEX evidence for deviation requests (Endor Labs perspective).
Organisations named here
- 3PAO
- Ben Scudera
- ConMon
- deviation request
- FedRAMP
- Fortreum
- POA&M
Technologies named here
- SCA tools
- FedRAMP Plan of Action and Milestones
- FedRAMP deviation request process
- Endor Labs
- SBOM
- VEX
Techniques named here
- Function-level reachability analysis
- False positive identification
- Caution on reachability claims
- Limitation of manifest-based dependency inventory
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