CIS Controls v8NIST SP 800-172

CIS Controls v8 covers 37.1% of NIST SP 800-172

13 of the 35 controls in NIST SP 800-172 are already satisfied by evidence you collected for CIS Controls v8. 22 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.

37.1%
of the target already covered
13
controls evidenced
22
genuine gaps
3
claims rejected in review

This number is directional. It says how much of NIST SP 800-172 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.

60 candidate mappings were examined and 3 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.

CA1 of 1 evidenced
CM2 of 3 evidenced, 1 to do
AT1 of 2 evidenced, 1 to do
IR1 of 2 evidenced, 1 to do
RA3 of 7 evidenced, 4 to do
SI3 of 7 evidenced, 4 to do
AC1 of 3 evidenced, 2 to do
IA1 of 3 evidenced, 2 to do
SC0 of 5 evidenced, 5 to do
PS0 of 2 evidenced, 2 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.

CIS-13.53.1.2eargued against and upheld
Restrict Access to Organization-Owned, Provisioned, or Issued Information Resources

Access decided on device management state restricts access to organisation provisioned resources.

CIS-18.43.11.5eargued against and upheld
Assess Effectiveness of Security Solutions

Validating security measures after each test is the effectiveness assessment required.

CIS-15.63.11.6eargued against and upheld
Supply Chain Risk Assessment, Response, and Monitoring

Ongoing provider monitoring with reassessment is the continuing cycle required.

CIS-15.53.11.6eargued against and upheld
Supply Chain Risk Assessment, Response, and Monitoring

Assessing providers against the policy is the supply chain risk assessment step.

CIS-15.23.11.7eargued against and upheld
Supply Chain Risk Management Plan

A maintained service provider management policy is the supply chain risk plan.

CIS-18.23.12.1eargued against and upheld
Penetration Testing by Independent Agents

Annual external penetration testing matches the required type and frequency.

CIS-18.53.12.1eargued against and upheld
Penetration Testing by Independent Agents

Annual internal penetration testing covers the other half of the requirement.

CIS-10.73.14.2eargued against and upheld
Monitor Organizational Systems with Specialized Capabilities

Behaviour based anti malware is the advanced detection capability required.

Claims that did not hold

3 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.

CIS-12.23.13.1e
Create Diversity in System Components to Limit Malicious Code Propagation

control identity corrected 2026-08-19: issued 3.13.1e is component diversity to limit malicious code propagation; these mappings are boundary protection and segmentation, judged against 3.1.3e's content which this control was wrongly carrying

Claimed at high confidence before it was rejected.

CIS-13.43.13.1e
Create Diversity in System Components to Limit Malicious Code Propagation

control identity corrected 2026-08-19: issued 3.13.1e is component diversity to limit malicious code propagation; these mappings are boundary protection and segmentation, judged against 3.1.3e's content which this control was wrongly carrying

Claimed at high confidence before it was rejected.

CIS-16.103.13.2e
Introduce Unpredictability into System Operations

control identity corrected 2026-08-19: issued 3.13.2e is introducing unpredictability into operations; these mappings are least privilege and secure engineering, a subject that appears nowhere in the issued 800-172

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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