C5 (Germany)CIS Controls v8

C5 (Germany) covers 43.8% of CIS Controls v8

67 of the 153 controls in CIS Controls v8 are already satisfied by evidence you collected for C5 (Germany). 86 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.

43.8%
of the target already covered
67
controls evidenced
86
genuine gaps
4
claims rejected in review

This number is directional. It says how much of CIS Controls v8 your C5 (Germany) 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.

126 candidate mappings were examined and 4 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 15: Service Provider Management6 of 7 evidenced, 1 to do
CIS Control 11: Data Recovery4 of 5 evidenced, 1 to do
CIS Control 6: Access Control Management6 of 8 evidenced, 2 to do
CIS Control 8: Audit Log Management7 of 12 evidenced, 5 to do
CIS Control 3: Data Protection8 of 14 evidenced, 6 to do
CIS Control 7: Continuous Vulnerability Management4 of 7 evidenced, 3 to do
CIS Control 17: Incident Response Management5 of 9 evidenced, 4 to do
CIS Control 12: Network Infrastructure Management4 of 8 evidenced, 4 to do
CIS Control 5: Account Management3 of 6 evidenced, 3 to do
CIS Control 18: Penetration Testing2 of 5 evidenced, 3 to do
CIS Control 16: Application Software Security5 of 14 evidenced, 9 to do
CIS Control 14: Security Awareness and Skills Training3 of 9 evidenced, 6 to do
CIS Control 10: Malware Defenses2 of 7 evidenced, 5 to do
CIS Control 13: Network Monitoring and Defense3 of 11 evidenced, 8 to do
CIS Control 4: Secure Configuration of Enterprise Assets and Software3 of 12 evidenced, 9 to do
CIS Control 1: Inventory and Control of Enterprise Assets1 of 5 evidenced, 4 to do
CIS Control 2: Inventory and Control of Software Assets1 of 7 evidenced, 6 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.

C5-AM-01CIS-1.1argued against and upheld
Establish and Maintain Detailed Enterprise Asset Inventory

C5 keeps asset records complete, accurate and valid across the lifecycle with every change logged.

C5-OPS-05CIS-10.1argued against and upheld
Deploy and Maintain Anti-Malware Software

C5 configures production components with malware protection as the policy prescribes and updates detection content daily.

C5-OPS-05CIS-10.2argued against and upheld
Configure Automatic Anti-Malware Signature Updates

C5 configures production components with malware protection as the policy prescribes and updates detection content daily.

C5-OPS-06CIS-11.1argued against and upheld
Establish and Maintain a Data Recovery Process

C5 fixes backup scope, frequency and retention against recovery targets, mandates encryption of backups and recovery testing.

C5-OPS-06CIS-11.2argued against and upheld
Perform Automated Backups

C5 fixes backup scope, frequency and retention against recovery targets, mandates encryption of backups and recovery testing.

C5-OPS-09CIS-11.3argued against and upheld
Protect Recovery Data

C5 holds backup copies at a remote location, encrypted in transit, matching the main site's physical security level.

C5-OPS-08CIS-11.5argued against and upheld
Test Data Recovery

C5 tests restore procedures at least annually against the defined maximum downtime and permissible data loss.

C5-COS-06CIS-12.2argued against and upheld
Establish and Maintain a Secure Network Architecture

C5 segregates the traffic of different customers at network level under a documented segregation concept.

Claims that did not hold

4 proposed mappings for this pair were rejected. They are kept in the graph rather than deleted, so what was thrown out is as inspectable as what survived. A crosswalk that never rejects anything is not being judged.

C5-OPS-16CIS-13.1
Centralize Security Event Alerting

judged against C5 criterion titles before the framework carried requirement text; does not hold against the real criterion; C5-OPS-16 restricts access to the logging and monitoring components and controls their configuration changes; centralised event alerting and correlation is OPS-13 and OPS-14

Claimed at high confidence before it was rejected.

C5-OPS-16CIS-13.11
Tune Security Event Alerting Thresholds

judged against C5 criterion titles before the framework carried requirement text; does not hold against the real criterion; C5-OPS-16 restricts access to the logging and monitoring components; C5 carries no requirement to tune alerting thresholds on a cadence

Claimed at high confidence before it was rejected.

C5-IDM-07CIS-3.3
Configure Data Access Control Lists

judged against C5 criterion titles before the framework carried requirement text; does not hold against the real criterion; C5-IDM-07 requires the customer be notified of provider access to unencrypted data; it does not configure access control lists by need to know

Claimed at high confidence before it was rejected.

C5-OPS-13CIS-8.2
Collect Audit Logs

judged against C5 criterion titles before the framework carried requirement text; does not hold against the real criterion; C5-OPS-13 requires automated analysis and correlation of log data; enabling and collecting audit logs across assets is OPS-10

Claimed at high confidence before it was rejected.

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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