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ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security IncidentsAzure Security Benchmark

ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents covers 30.6% of Azure Security Benchmark

26 of the 85 controls in Azure Security Benchmark are already satisfied by evidence you collected for ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents. 59 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.

30.6%
of the target already covered
26
controls evidenced
59
genuine gaps
0
claims rejected in review

This number is directional. It says how much of Azure Security Benchmark your ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents 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.

49 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.

Endpoint Security3 of 3 evidenced
Posture and Vulnerability Management4 of 7 evidenced, 3 to do
Backup and Recovery2 of 4 evidenced, 2 to do
Logging and Threat Detection3 of 7 evidenced, 4 to do
Network Security4 of 10 evidenced, 6 to do
Privileged Access3 of 8 evidenced, 5 to do
Identity Management3 of 9 evidenced, 6 to do
Incident Response2 of 7 evidenced, 5 to do
Asset Management1 of 5 evidenced, 4 to do
Data Protection1 of 8 evidenced, 7 to do
DevOps Security0 of 7 evidenced, 7 to do
Governance and Strategy0 of 10 evidenced, 10 to do

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.

ASD37-01ASB v3 AM-5argued against and upheld
Use only approved applications in virtual machine

ASD application control maintains an allowlist and blocks unauthorised software from executing.

ASD37-34ASB v3 BR-1argued against and upheld
Ensure regular automated backups

ASD requires regular backups of important new and changed data, software and configuration.

ASD37-34ASB v3 BR-4argued against and upheld
Regularly test backup

ASD requires restoration tested initially, annually and whenever IT infrastructure changes.

ASD37-27ASB v3 DP-2argued against and upheld
Monitor anomalies and threats targeting sensitive data

ASD outbound data loss prevention detects and blocks unusual volumes or sensitive data leaving.

ASD37-30ASB v3 ES-1argued against and upheld
Use Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

ASD requires endpoint detection and response on all computers with centralised reporting.

ASD37-12ASB v3 ES-2argued against and upheld
Use modern anti-malware software

ASD antivirus uses heuristics and reputation ratings, which is behaviour based protection.

ASD37-16ASB v3 ES-3argued against and upheld
Ensure anti-malware software and signatures are updated

ASD explicitly requires antivirus signatures to be kept up to date.

ASD37-23ASB v3 IM-2argued against and upheld
Protect identity and authentication systems

ASD protects authentication credentials in memory, limits caching and centralises storage.

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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