Description

A focused course, tailored for you

Security Risk Evidence for Enterprise SaaS Compliance

Build the auditor-ready risk posture that satisfies FedRAMP, SOC 2, and enterprise customer due diligence in a single defensible programme.

Security risk practitioners at enterprise SaaS companies sit at the sharpest point of compliance pressure: internal audit wants a complete risk register, external assessors want control evidence, and enterprise customers want questionnaire responses in 48 hours. These are not three separate problems. They are the same evidence gap surfacing three times.

$199 one-time

Tailored to your situation. Access within 24 hours. 30-day money-back.

Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.

Why this course

Every enterprise SaaS security risk function runs the same hidden debt. Controls exist. Policies exist. Evidence exists, scattered across ticketing systems, wikis, and whoever last worked on the FedRAMP package. When a customer sends a 140-question security assessment, or the SOC 2 Type II window opens, or a continuous monitoring report is due, the team spends more time locating and formatting evidence than they spend on actual risk judgement. The result is a programme that is technically compliant but operationally fragile: every audit cycle is a scramble, every enterprise deal review is a fire drill, and the security risk function looks reactive rather than authoritative. This course teaches the design of a security risk evidence programme that is built once and consulted continuously.

What you walk away with

Map your existing controls to FedRAMP Moderate and SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria simultaneously, eliminating duplicate evidence collection.
Design an evidence library structure that allows any auditor question to be answered with a retrievable, dated artefact in under 15 minutes.
Build a customer security questionnaire playbook that your team can execute without pulling the security risk lead into every deal.
Produce a risk treatment register that satisfies both your internal audit committee and an external assessor without rewriting it for each audience.
Run continuous monitoring documentation cycles that keep your FedRAMP posture current without a quarterly scramble.
Deliver a trust and assurance narrative to enterprise customers that accelerates procurement without overpromising your control environment.

The 12 modules

Module 1. The Evidence Problem in Enterprise SaaS Security Risk

Diagnose the structural gap between having controls and having an auditor-ready programme. This module maps the three evidence surfaces that security risk practitioners at SaaS companies manage simultaneously: the internal risk register, the external audit package, and the customer due diligence response queue. You leave with a gap inventory specific to your programme and a prioritisation framework for closing it.

Module 2. FedRAMP Moderate Control Mapping for SaaS Environments

Work through the NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 control families as they apply to a cloud-hosted SaaS product. This module covers the controls most frequently challenged during FedRAMP Moderate assessment: AC family access controls, AU audit logging, IA identity and authentication, and SI system integrity. You produce a control-to-artefact mapping document that your team uses as the master evidence index for every FedRAMP deliverable.

Module 3. SOC 2 Type II Trust Services Criteria Alignment

Map the five Trust Services Criteria (Security, Availability, Confidentiality, Processing Integrity, Privacy) against your existing control environment. This module focuses on the bridge between FedRAMP controls you already document and the SOC 2 Common Criteria, so you collect evidence once and satisfy both frameworks. You build the dual-framework control matrix that eliminates redundant evidence requests from your audit teams.

Module 4. Designing the Security Evidence Library

Structure the evidence repository so that every artefact is findable, dated, and tied to a specific control. This module covers naming conventions, version control for policy documents, screenshot and log evidence standards, and the difference between point-in-time evidence and continuous monitoring artefacts. You design the folder taxonomy and metadata schema your team will maintain going forward, removing dependency on any single person to know where things live.

Module 5. Customer Security Questionnaire Playbook Design

Build the reusable playbook that lets your team answer enterprise customer security assessments without pulling the security risk lead into every response. This module covers question categorisation, pre-approved answer banks for standard security clauses, escalation triggers for novel questions, and turnaround SLAs that match what enterprise procurement teams expect. You produce a playbook document your team can execute independently within one quarter of deployment.

Module 6. Risk Treatment Documentation for Dual Audiences

Write risk treatment records that satisfy an internal audit committee and an external assessor without two separate documents. This module covers the structure of a risk treatment entry: threat description, likelihood and impact scoring, chosen treatment (accept, mitigate, transfer, avoid), control reference, residual risk statement, and owner. You produce a risk register template calibrated for both internal governance reporting and assessor review, with worked examples drawn from common SaaS risk categories.

Module 7. FedRAMP Continuous Monitoring: Monthly and Annual Cycles

Design the continuous monitoring rhythm that keeps your FedRAMP authorisation current without a quarterly all-hands scramble. This module covers the deliverables required in each monthly ConMon package: vulnerability scan results, plan of action and milestones updates, significant change notifications, and the annual security assessment scheduling. You leave with a ConMon calendar, the artefact checklist for each cycle, and the internal handoff process that distributes the work across your engineering and security operations teams.

Module 8. ISO 27001 Annex A Controls for the SaaS Risk Register

Extend your risk register to cover the ISO 27001 Annex A control set, relevant for enterprise customers in regulated industries outside the US federal space who require ISO certification or alignment. This module maps the Annex A domains most commonly interrogated in enterprise customer questionnaires, ISO 27001 Annex A.8 (asset management), A.9 (access control), A.12 (operations security), and A.18 (compliance) against the FedRAMP and SOC 2 artefacts you already maintain, identifying where one document covers multiple frameworks.

Module 9. Security Risk Metrics for Leadership Reporting

Build the risk metrics pack your CISO or VP of Security presents to the board and to enterprise customers as a trust signal. This module covers the indicators that matter for SaaS security risk programmes: mean time to remediate critical vulnerabilities, percentage of controls with current evidence, open plan of action and milestones items by severity, and customer questionnaire turnaround time. You produce a metrics template and the data collection process to populate it each reporting cycle without manual assembly.

Module 10. Third-Party Risk in the SaaS Supply Chain

Document and manage the security risk that flows through your subprocessors and critical vendors, a requirement in both FedRAMP and SOC 2 and a frequent source of enterprise customer concern. This module covers the vendor inventory, annual security review questionnaire process for subprocessors, evidence of vendor SOC 2 or equivalent, and the contractual flow-down requirements you enforce in data processing agreements. You produce the subprocessor register and vendor review schedule your assessors will ask for.

Module 11. Enterprise Customer Trust Narrative and Assurance Package

Build the customer-facing trust and assurance package that accelerates enterprise deals without overpromising. This module covers what to include in a security overview document, how to present your SOC 2 Type II report and FedRAMP status to procurement teams, what to share versus what to protect, and how to handle requests for penetration test results, vulnerability disclosures, and breach history. You produce the trust package template your sales engineering team uses in every enterprise procurement process.

Module 12. Maintaining the Programme: Quarterly Review and Ownership Model

Establish the operating model that keeps your security risk evidence programme current as your product and team evolve. This module covers the quarterly programme review cadence, the ownership assignment for each control family, the process for onboarding new controls when your product scope expands, and the change management trigger for updating evidence when an underlying system or process changes. You leave with the governance document and the review calendar that removes the programme's dependence on any single practitioner.

How this addresses your situation

Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.

Customer security questionnaire arrives with 140 questions and a 48-hour deadline: modules 5 and 11 give you the playbook and the trust package to respond without a fire drill.

FedRAMP continuous monitoring package is due and the evidence is scattered across three systems: modules 2, 4, and 7 establish the control mapping, evidence library, and ConMon rhythm that makes the next package a retrieval task rather than an assembly task.

SOC 2 Type II audit window opens and your auditor asks for evidence you know exists but cannot locate quickly: modules 3 and 4 build the dual-framework matrix and the evidence library so every artefact is findable in under 15 minutes.

Leadership asks for a board-ready risk metrics pack and you are assembling it manually from four different sources: module 9 gives you the metrics template and the data collection process to produce it without manual work.

What you get with this course

12 written modules with downloadable templates for each artefact: control mapping matrix, evidence library schema, customer questionnaire playbook, risk treatment register, ConMon calendar, vendor register, trust package, and quarterly review governance document.
The hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access: a sequenced 90-day rollout plan scoped to your specific framework obligations (FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001 combination) and your team size.
Worked examples drawn from common SaaS security risk scenarios: handling a novel customer questionnaire clause, updating a plan of action and milestones entry, and onboarding a new subprocessor mid-audit-cycle.
Access in the Art of Service learning environment within 24 hours of purchase.

What you will have in hand by Day 1, Week 1, Month 1

Access to all 12 modules and the full template library is provisioned within 24 hours of purchase.

The hand-built implementation playbook, scoped to your specific framework obligations and team context, is delivered alongside course access within 24 hours.

Before and after

Before

Customer security questionnaires take two days to answer because evidence is scattered. The SOC 2 audit is a quarterly scramble. The risk register satisfies internal audit but has to be rewritten for every external assessor. FedRAMP ConMon packages are assembled by whoever has context rather than whoever has ownership.

After

A single evidence library covers FedRAMP, SOC 2, and customer due diligence. Questionnaire responses take under a day using the playbook. The risk register speaks to both internal and external audiences without rewriting. ConMon packages are a retrieval task with a defined owner and a documented schedule.

What happens if you do not address this

Each audit cycle and enterprise deal review that runs as a fire drill costs two to three days of senior security risk time. At the enterprise SaaS scale, that is compounding: more customers, more questionnaires, more framework obligations. The programme that works now by burning people out will not work at twice the customer count. Building the structure this quarter means the next ten questionnaires cost hours, not days.

Who it is for

Security risk and compliance professionals at enterprise SaaS companies who own or support the internal security risk programme, manage customer due diligence responses, or maintain compliance posture across frameworks including FedRAMP, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and customer-imposed contractual requirements. Typically at senior individual contributor or manager level, accountable for both the internal risk register and the external audit artefacts.

Who this is NOT for. Security engineers focused solely on tooling and detection without compliance accountability. Governance, risk, and compliance consultants who work exclusively in advisory roles without programme ownership. Teams at companies not yet subject to enterprise customer security reviews or public sector compliance requirements.

How it arrives

Text-based course in the Art of Service learning environment, plus downloadable templates and worked examples for every module, plus the hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access.

Time investment. Approximately 6-8 hours across the 12 modules. Templates are ready to adapt immediately. The implementation playbook sequences the deployment work across 90 days so you can integrate it alongside your existing programme responsibilities.

Why $199 is the right number

A consulting engagement to redesign a security risk evidence programme at this level runs $15,000-$40,000 and takes three to four months. Internal workshops require pulling multiple senior people off programme work for days at a time. Generic GRC training courses cover framework theory without the implementation artefacts specific to enterprise SaaS dual-framework compliance. This course delivers the artefacts and the sequenced build plan for $199.

FAQ

Does this course assume I already have a FedRAMP authorisation in place?

No. The course is useful whether you are maintaining an existing FedRAMP Moderate ATO, pursuing one, or simply aligning to FedRAMP controls because your enterprise customers require it. Module 2 covers the control mapping from first principles, and the evidence library design in module 4 works for any control inventory stage.

Our programme covers SOC 2 but not FedRAMP. Is this still relevant?

Yes. The evidence library design, risk treatment documentation, customer questionnaire playbook, and third-party risk modules apply directly to a SOC 2-only programme. The FedRAMP-specific modules (2 and 7) are structured so you can apply the methodology to your SOC 2 control families even if you never pursue a FedRAMP authorisation.

How is the implementation playbook customised?

After purchase, you share your current framework obligations (FedRAMP status, SOC 2 scope, any customer-required certifications) and your approximate team size. The hand-built playbook sequences the 90-day deployment work to your specific combination. It is not a generic project plan, it is built for your situation.

Can I share the templates with my team?

Yes. Course access and all templates are for your use within your organisation. There is no per-seat restriction on internal use of the downloaded artefacts.

30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, reply to the receipt email and a full refund is processed. No questions, no forms.

Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.