Turn a Word (.docx) System Security Plan into validated, machine-readable OSCAL.
Your SSP almost certainly lives in Word. FedRAMP, agencies, and NIST increasingly want it as OSCAL - structured, validated, machine-readable data. OscalIQ bridges that gap: it reads the Word document as it actually is, extracts the control implementations, parameters, and responsible roles, and produces validated OSCAL you can export as JSON, XML, or YAML - no hand-written markup.
Bring in your Word System Security Plan exactly as it is - narrative sections, control tables, and copy-pasted control language.
OscalIQ pulls control implementations, parameter values, and responsible roles out of the prose and tables and maps them to the OSCAL SSP model.
The mapped data is checked against the NIST OSCAL constraints, then exported as OSCAL JSON, XML, or YAML.
Edit it as OSCAL going forward - you converted the Word file once, not every audit.
Upload your Word (.docx) System Security Plan to OscalIQ. It reads the narrative and control tables, extracts the control implementations, parameters, and responsible roles, maps them to the NIST OSCAL SSP model, validates the result, and exports OSCAL as JSON, XML, or YAML. From then on you maintain it as living OSCAL instead of re-converting the document.
A Word SSP mixes narrative, tables, and control language in a layout meant for people. OSCAL requires every control implementation, parameter, responsible role, and component to be discrete, validated data with stable identifiers and cross-references. "Save As" cannot infer that structure - the real work is reading the prose and mapping it to the model, which is what OscalIQ automates.
It is built to read real, messy, narrative SSPs - not only a perfectly structured template. FedRAMP and agency Word templates work well, and so do the non-standard documents most teams actually have.
Yes. OscalIQ ingests both Word (.docx) and Excel (.xlsx) SSPs and control workbooks. See the SSP to OSCAL converter for the general path.
A validated OSCAL System Security Plan you can export as JSON, XML, or YAML, ready for tooling, agencies, and 3PAOs that expect machine-readable OSCAL.
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