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Azure Security BenchmarkC5 (Germany)

Azure Security Benchmark covers 34.7% of C5 (Germany)

42 of the 121 controls in C5 (Germany) are already satisfied by evidence you collected for Azure Security Benchmark. 79 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.

34.7%
of the target already covered
42
controls evidenced
79
genuine gaps
0
claims rejected in review

This number is directional. It says how much of C5 (Germany) your Azure Security Benchmark 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.

121 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.

C5: Cryptography and Key Management4 of 4 evidenced
C5: Identity and Access Management7 of 9 evidenced, 2 to do
C5: Communication Security5 of 8 evidenced, 3 to do
C5: Security Incident Management3 of 5 evidenced, 2 to do
C5: Operations13 of 24 evidenced, 11 to do
C5: Asset Management3 of 6 evidenced, 3 to do
C5: Procurement, Development and Modification of Information Systems3 of 10 evidenced, 7 to do
C5: Product Safety and Security3 of 12 evidenced, 9 to do
C5: Organisation of Information Security1 of 7 evidenced, 6 to do
C5: Business Continuity Management0 of 4 evidenced, 4 to do
C5: Compliance0 of 4 evidenced, 4 to do
C5: Human Resources0 of 6 evidenced, 6 to do
C5: Dealing with Investigation Requests from Government Agencies0 of 4 evidenced, 4 to do
C5: Portability and Interoperability0 of 3 evidenced, 3 to do
C5: Physical Security0 of 7 evidenced, 7 to do
C5: Security Policies and Instructions0 of 3 evidenced, 3 to do
C5: Control and Monitoring of Service Providers and Suppliers0 of 5 evidenced, 5 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.

ASB v3 AM-1C5-AM-01argued against and upheld
Asset Inventory

Asset inventory tracked by discovering and querying all resources, organised by tagging.

ASB v3 AM-3C5-AM-04argued against and upheld
Decommissioning of Hardware

Unused resources decommissioned securely under documented lifecycle procedures.

ASB v3 AM-3C5-AM-06argued against and upheld
Asset Classification and Labelling

Resources tagged with ownership so protection needs can be assigned.

ASB v3 DP-1C5-AM-06argued against and upheld
Asset Classification and Labelling

Sensitive data discovered, classified and labelled within a defined scope.

ASB v3 LT-1C5-COS-01argued against and upheld
Technical safeguards

Threat detection monitors resource types for expected threats and anomalies.

ASB v3 NS-4C5-COS-01argued against and upheld
Technical safeguards

Intrusion detection and prevention inspects traffic and payload and raises alerts.

ASB v3 GS-4C5-COS-02argued against and upheld
Security requirements for connections in the Cloud Service Provider's network

Network security strategy issues binding guidance on design, segmentation and perimeter.

ASB v3 NS-1C5-COS-02argued against and upheld
Security requirements for connections in the Cloud Service Provider's network

Segmentation boundaries define when zones separate workloads by sensitivity.

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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