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Azure Security BenchmarkCIS Controls v8

Azure Security Benchmark covers 49% of CIS Controls v8

75 of the 153 controls in CIS Controls v8 are already satisfied by evidence you collected for Azure Security Benchmark. 78 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.

49%
of the target already covered
75
controls evidenced
78
genuine gaps
0
claims rejected in review

This number is directional. It says how much of CIS Controls v8 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.

143 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.

CIS Control 6: Access Control Management7 of 8 evidenced, 1 to do
CIS Control 7: Continuous Vulnerability Management6 of 7 evidenced, 1 to do
CIS Control 5: Account Management5 of 6 evidenced, 1 to do
CIS Control 11: Data Recovery4 of 5 evidenced, 1 to do
CIS Control 8: Audit Log Management8 of 12 evidenced, 4 to do
CIS Control 13: Network Monitoring and Defense7 of 11 evidenced, 4 to do
CIS Control 1: Inventory and Control of Enterprise Assets3 of 5 evidenced, 2 to do
CIS Control 16: Application Software Security7 of 14 evidenced, 7 to do
CIS Control 3: Data Protection7 of 14 evidenced, 7 to do
CIS Control 12: Network Infrastructure Management4 of 8 evidenced, 4 to do
CIS Control 17: Incident Response Management4 of 9 evidenced, 5 to do
CIS Control 10: Malware Defenses3 of 7 evidenced, 4 to do
CIS Control 2: Inventory and Control of Software Assets3 of 7 evidenced, 4 to do
CIS Control 4: Secure Configuration of Enterprise Assets and Software5 of 12 evidenced, 7 to do
CIS Control 18: Penetration Testing2 of 5 evidenced, 3 to do
CIS Control 14: Security Awareness and Skills Training0 of 9 evidenced, 9 to do
CIS Control 15: Service Provider Management0 of 7 evidenced, 7 to do
CIS Control 9: Email and Web Browser Protections0 of 7 evidenced, 7 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-1CIS-1.1argued against and upheld
Establish and Maintain Detailed Enterprise Asset Inventory

A continuously updated inventory of all cloud resources is the asset inventory for that estate.

ASB v3 AM-2CIS-1.2argued against and upheld
Address Unauthorized Assets

Policy denying unapproved services with documented exceptions addresses unauthorised assets.

ASB v3 AM-1CIS-1.3argued against and upheld
Utilize an Active Discovery Tool

Discovering and querying all cloud resources is active discovery for that environment.

ASB v3 ES-2CIS-10.1argued against and upheld
Deploy and Maintain Anti-Malware Software

Deploying modern anti malware with real time scanning is this safeguard directly.

ASB v3 ES-3CIS-10.2argued against and upheld
Configure Automatic Anti-Malware Signature Updates

Ensuring signatures update rapidly and consistently is automatic signature updating.

ASB v3 ES-2CIS-10.7argued against and upheld
Use Behavior-Based Anti-Malware Software

Behaviour monitoring is named explicitly in the anti malware requirement.

ASB v3 ES-1CIS-10.7argued against and upheld
Use Behavior-Based Anti-Malware Software

Endpoint detection and response is behaviour based detection with automated response.

ASB v3 GS-8CIS-11.1argued against and upheld
Establish and Maintain a Data Recovery Process

A documented backup and recovery strategy with RTO and RPO is the data recovery process.

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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