Changes Overview – Paramify

The Changes feature lets you manage and document significant changes to your system’s security, from initial proposal through completion. Each change starts as proposed and captures key details like dates, reason for change, and customer impact. Changes can be linked to Issues, Controls, and Remediation Activities, giving a clear view of everything a change will affect.

Create a Proposed Change

1. Open Changes

In the Program, open Implementation and select Changes.

Changes option under Implementation in the Program navigation

2. Add a proposed change

On the Proposed Changes page, click + Change.

+ Change button on the Proposed Changes page

3. Fill out the form

Complete the fields in the form that appears.

New proposed change form

TIP: CHANGE TYPE

Adaptive changes adjust existing components, like a version upgrade, and agencies are notified after the change. Transformative changes add, replace, or remove major components, like moving to a new database service, and agencies must be notified in advance (per FedRAMP rules SCN-TRF-NIP, SCN-TRF-NFP, SCN-TRF-NAF, and SCN-TRF-NAV).

4. Save the proposed change

Click Save to create the proposed change.

Save button on the proposed change form

5. Open the proposed change

Select the proposed change you created to open it.

Newly created proposed change in the Proposed Changes list

Add Proposed Change Details

1. Enter the plan details and dates

Fill in the initial plan details and dates for the change.

Plan details and date fields on the proposed change

2. Open the Remediation Activity selection

Scroll down and open the Remediation Activity selection.

Remediation Activity selection on the proposed change

3. Link Remediation Activities

Select the Remediation Activities associated with this change and click Save.

Remediation Activities selected with the Save button

4. Open the Controls tab

Click the Controls tab.

Controls tab on the proposed change

5. Open the Controls selection

Open the Controls selection.

Controls selection on the Controls tab

6. Link Controls

Select any relevant Controls and click Save.

Controls selected with the Save button

7. Open the Issues tab

Click the Issues tab.

Issues tab on the proposed change

8. Open the Issues selection

Open the Issues selection.

Issues selection on the Issues tab

9. Link Issues

Select the relevant Issues and click Save.

Issues selected with the Save button

10. Open the Metadata tab

Click the Metadata tab.

Metadata tab on the proposed change

11. Complete the metadata

Fill in any empty Metadata fields.

Metadata fields on the Metadata tab

Committing Changes

1. Commit the change

Click Commit Changes to move the change from proposed to committed.

Commit Changes button on the proposed change

2. Confirm the commit

Click to confirm the commit in the dialog that appears.

Commit confirmation dialog

3. View the committed change

The change now appears in the Committed tab.

Committed tab showing the committed change

NOTE

The Committed, Proposed, and All tabs each offer filtering, bulk actions, and an Approval Status field.