ACSC Essential Eight covers 18% of SOC 2
11 of the 61 controls in SOC 2 are already satisfied by evidence you collected for ACSC Essential Eight. 50 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
SOC 2 has 61 controls. Holding ACSC Essential Eight already evidences 11 of them, so the work in front of you is 50 controls, not 61, which is 82% of the standard rather than all of it.
That is the whole claim. We do not know your hourly rate, how long a control takes you, or how many people you have, so there is no figure here in dollars or weeks. 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.
This number is directional. It says how much of SOC 2 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.
31 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.
Backup administrators cannot modify or delete backups during the retention period.
Backups of data, applications and settings are performed, synchronised and retained securely.
Restoration from backups is tested as part of disaster recovery exercises.
Phishing resistant multi factor authentication is required for all users of the system.
Privileged access runs through dedicated accounts and separated privileged operating environments.
Access for users and services is limited to only what their assigned duties require.
Access is revalidated at 12 months and removed after 45 days of inactivity.
Multi factor authentication is required on internet facing, customer facing and third party services.
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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