The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Security Automation and Continuous Monitoring (SACM) Requirements' (draft-ietf-sacm-requirements-18.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Security Automation and Continuous Monitoring Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Kathleen Moriarty and Eric Rescorla. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sacm-requirements/ Technical Summary This document defines the scope and set of requirements for the Secure Automation and Continuous Monitoring (SACM) architecture, data model and transport protocols. The requirements and scope are based on the agreed upon use cases. Working Group Summary The working group has consensus to publish this document. They have decided that they would like it published as an informational draft, as planned from the working group inception. There preference was this over use of a wiki or an expired draft. Document Quality The document sets forth the requirements for SACM, as such there are no implementations of this draft. Personnel Karen O'Donoghue is the Document Shepherd and Kathleen Moriarty is the Responsible Area Director.