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Third-Party Information Resources

Minimum Assessment Scope (MAS) · General Provider Responsibilities

Applies to: Providers
Who this applies to
Providers
Service class
All service classes
Force
MUST
Timeframe
No fixed timeframe

Reviewed implementation guidance for MAS-CSO-TPR is not published yet. The official source below remains complete and authoritative.

Information required

  • General usage and configuration
  • Explanation or justification for use
  • Mitigation measures in place to reduce the potential impact to federal customer data
  • Compensating controls in place to reduce the potential impact to federal customer data

Expected evidence artifacts

  • A machine readable output containing all required data of the third-party information resources of the cloud service offering that are likely to handle federal customer data or likely to impact the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of federal customer data handled by the cloud service offering.
  • A human readable explanation of how the machine readable output is derived.
  • The code for the automated process used to generate the machine readable output.

Official FedRAMP source

Verbatim from FedRAMP/rules

Providers MUST address the potential impact to federal customer data from third-party information resources used by the cloud service offering, ONLY IF MAS-CSO-IIR (Identify Information Resources) APPLIES, by documenting the following information about each applicable third-party information resource:

Defined terms in this requirement

Operationalize this rule

Boundera turns FedRAMP 20x requirements like MAS-CSO-TPR into assigned evidence, remediation work, and validation workflows.

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Change history

  • 2026-06-24Official launch of the FedRAMP Consolidated Rules for 2026.

Content provenance

Official requirement text is sourced from FedRAMP/rules . Boundera implementation guidance has not been fully reviewed for this item.