Automating the CIS Controls with OSCAL

This report explains how NIST’s OSCAL standard enables machine-readable security control documentation (XML/JSON/YAML) to reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and accelerate compliance (e.g., ATO), with growing acceptance such as FedRAMP. It emphasizes automated mappings across multiple frameworks and highlights CIS’s support by providing OSCAL serializations for CIS Controls v8 and v8.1 to aid GRC tools and organizations in cross-referencing and automation.