ACSC Essential Eight covers 12.9% of ISO 27002:2022
12 of the 93 controls in ISO 27002:2022 are already satisfied by evidence you collected for ACSC Essential Eight. 81 are genuine gaps. Every claim below was judged against both control sets and then argued against; the ones that did not survive are published further down with the reason each failed.
What this leaves you to do
ISO 27002:2022 has 93 controls. Holding ACSC Essential Eight already evidences 12 of them, so the work in front of you is 81 controls, not 93, which is 87% of the standard rather than all of it.
That is the whole claim. Every number in that sentence comes from the two counts above it and can be re-derived from the free tools without taking our word for any of it.
In money, using only our numbers. The full report is $299 and names 12 controls of ISO 27002:2022 you do not have to implement again, which is $24.92 per control identified. That arithmetic uses our price and our count and assumes nothing about you.
In your hours, using your assumption. We do not know what a control costs you to implement, so pick the column that looks like your organisation. These are your figures, not our claim.
| If a control takes you | 4 hours | 8 hours | 16 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| the 12 already evidenced are | 48 hours | 96 hours | 192 hours |
| and the 81 remaining are | 324 hours | 648 hours | 1,296 hours |
Multiply by your own rate. We publish no rate because we have not measured yours, and a number built on an invented rate is the kind of claim this platform exists to argue against.
This number is directional. It says how much of ISO 27002:2022 your ACSC Essential Eight evidence satisfies. The reverse pair is a different number, often very different, because a security standard has enormous depth for access control and almost none for lawful basis or data subject rights.
46 candidate mappings were examined and 0 were removed. Signed off 2026-08-19, review level machine verified. Mappings were judged by Claude Code rather than read line by line by a practitioner. Every claim shows its reasoning so you can check it. Ask and a practitioner will review this pair.
Where the gaps are
Coverage is never evenly spread. A source standard usually satisfies one part of a target almost completely and barely touches another, and which part is which is the thing worth knowing before you plan the work.
Theme level, not control level, deliberately. The per-control list of what is evidenced and what is a gap is the report itself, so publishing it here would be publishing the thing being sold.
Claims that held
A sample. Each one names the control whose evidence does the work, the control it satisfies, and why.
Cyber security events are analysed in a timely manner to decide which are incidents.
On identifying an incident the cyber security incident response plan must be enacted.
Backups follow business continuity requirements and restoration is tested in disaster recovery exercises.
Backup administrators cannot modify or delete backups during the retention period.
Privileged accounts other than backup administrators cannot access, modify or delete backups.
Backups of data, applications and settings are performed, retained and restoration tested.
Privileged access events are centrally logged, protected from modification and analysed in time.
PowerShell module, script block and transcription logs are produced and centrally collected.
Claims that did not hold
Nothing proposed for this pair was rejected in review. That is unusual and worth knowing rather than hiding: it means the candidate set was small and every candidate held.
The full report
Everything above is a sample. The report is every evidenced control and every gap, with the reasoning and the source document behind each one, in a form you can hand to an assessor. $299, emailed immediately.
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