Convert a Word or Excel System Security Plan into the NIST OSCAL SSP model.
A System Security Plan in Word or Excel is written for people; OSCAL is written for machines. OscalIQ converts the one into the other: it extracts your control implementations, parameters, responsible roles, and components, maps them to the OSCAL SSP model, validates the result, and exports OSCAL JSON, XML, or YAML - then keeps it living so you never hand-convert again.
Upload your Word or Excel System Security Plan - narrative sections and control-implementation tables alike.
OscalIQ extracts control implementations, parameter values, responsible roles, and system components and maps them to the OSCAL SSP model with stable identifiers.
The SSP is validated against the NIST OSCAL constraints and exported as OSCAL JSON, XML, or YAML.
Keep the OSCAL SSP living as your system evolves - a system of record, not a document that goes stale.
It means expressing the same information your System Security Plan holds - system characteristics, control implementations, parameters, and responsible roles - as the OSCAL SSP model: NIST's machine-readable format. Once the SSP is OSCAL, tools can validate, exchange, and continuously check it instead of a human re-reading a Word or Excel document.
OscalIQ ingests both Word (.docx) and Excel (.xlsx) System Security Plans and control workbooks - including FedRAMP templates and the non-standard documents most teams actually maintain.
A validated OSCAL System Security Plan you can export as JSON, XML, or YAML, conformant to the NIST OSCAL SSP model so downstream tools, agencies, and 3PAOs can consume it.
It should not be. The value of OSCAL is a living, machine-readable SSP. OscalIQ keeps yours current as the system changes, so you export up-to-date OSCAL any time rather than re-converting a document each assessment cycle.
The open-source OSCAL tooling and official templates assume your content is already structured and mapped. They do not read an arbitrary narrative SSP and produce valid OSCAL. OscalIQ is built for that gap - reading real documents, extracting the control data, and producing validated OSCAL.
Related: Word to OSCAL · FedRAMP to OSCAL · Guide: converting a Word SSP to OSCAL