CIS Controls v8 covers 57.6% of Azure Security Benchmark
49 of the 85 controls in Azure Security Benchmark are already satisfied by evidence you collected for CIS Controls v8. 36 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.
This number is directional. It says how much of Azure Security Benchmark your CIS Controls v8 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.
137 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.
Detailed asset inventory with owner and department is the same inventory evidence
Inventory records asset owner, department and approval, covering ownership tracking
Allowlisting authorised software on assets is the same control as VM application allowlisting
Automated backups on a recurring schedule is the identical requirement
Protecting recovery data by encryption and access control is the same requirement
An isolated recovery instance is the immutability and ransomware defence sought
Periodic recovery testing of backups is the identical requirement
A maintained sensitive data inventory is the discovery and inventory evidence
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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