Inheritance Utility

The Inheritance utility provides the ability to inherit Control Implementations from an existing Security Plan or Policy. This streamlines control reuse across systems and components, minimizing manual effort and accelerating compliance. Use inheritance to tier systems (e.g., components under a system-level Security Plan), reduce redundant work, and align with cloud compliance models like FedRAMP.

Inheriting Control Implementations

Open a Security Plan or Component record.
In the Utility panel, select Inheritance.
Select a source record (Security Plan or Policy).
- Security Plan: Controls must be marked as Inheritable by the owner.
- Policy: All requirements are available for inheritance.
Select controls to inherit (individually or by family).
Review selections and click Finish.
Confirm newly inherited or updated records.
Return to the record to view the inherited controls.

Note: The parent Security Plan must use the same Compliance Settings and have the "Inheritable by Child Security Plans/Components" option enabled in the Control Implementation.