CIS Controls v8NIST SP 800-218

CIS Controls v8 covers 50% of NIST SP 800-218

21 of the 42 controls in NIST SP 800-218 are already satisfied by evidence you collected for CIS Controls v8. 21 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.

50%
of the target already covered
21
controls evidenced
21
genuine gaps
0
claims rejected in review

This number is directional. It says how much of NIST SP 800-218 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.

46 candidate mappings were examined and 1 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.

Respond to Vulnerabilities3 of 3 evidenced
Produce Well Secured Software6 of 8 evidenced, 2 to do
NIST SP 800-218: Cryptography3 of 4 evidenced, 1 to do
NIST SP 800-218: Access Control3 of 5 evidenced, 2 to do
Prepare the Organization3 of 8 evidenced, 5 to do
Protect the Software1 of 4 evidenced, 3 to do
NIST SP 800-218: Information Security Policies1 of 5 evidenced, 4 to do
NIST SP 800-218: Asset Management1 of 5 evidenced, 4 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-16.1SP800-218-PO.1.1argued against and upheld
Define Security Requirements for Software Development

The documented development process must address secure design and coding standards

CIS-16.9SP800-218-PO.2.2argued against and upheld
Training and Skills Maintenance

Training developers in secure coding and application security is the identical requirement

CIS-16.8SP800-218-PO.5.1argued against and upheld
Secure Development Environment Implementation

Separating production and non production systems is the core development environment control

CIS-4.1SP800-218-PO.5.2argued against and upheld
Harden Development Endpoints

The secure configuration process covers end user devices including developer endpoints

CIS-16.4SP800-218-PS.3.2argued against and upheld
Software Bill of Materials

A maintained inventory of third party components is a software bill of materials

CIS-16.10SP800-218-PW.1.1argued against and upheld
Design Software to Meet Security Requirements

Applying secure design principles in application architecture is the same design requirement

CIS-16.14SP800-218-PW.1.1argued against and upheld
Design Software to Meet Security Requirements

Threat modelling to identify attacker abuse and feed mitigations back is identical

CIS-16.11SP800-218-PW.1.3argued against and upheld
Support Standardized Security Features

Using vetted modules for security components instead of proprietary code is identical

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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