# FedRAMP High
**Entity class:** Federal cloud-security impact baseline
## Definition
**FedRAMP High** is the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program baseline for cloud systems handling high-impact federal information, where compromise could have severe or catastrophic effects. Authorization does not by itself grant a user access to a case or dataset; application, agency, role, and case controls remain separate.
## Relationships
- **required environment for:** [[wiki/Case Management and Analytics Platform|CMAP]].
- **implemented with:** [[wiki/Role-Based Access Control|RBAC]] and [[wiki/Case-Level Security|case-level security]].
- **cloud context:** federal software and infrastructure services.
## Sources / Provenance
- [FedRAMP — Security Controls](https://www.fedramp.gov/)