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Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) v4.0.1Azure Security Benchmark

Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) v4.0.1 covers 72.9% of Azure Security Benchmark

62 of the 85 controls in Azure Security Benchmark are already satisfied by evidence you collected for Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) v4.0.1. 23 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.

72.9%
of the target already covered
62
controls evidenced
23
genuine gaps
0
claims rejected in review

This number is directional. It says how much of Azure Security Benchmark your Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) v4.0.1 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.

123 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.

Privileged Access7 of 8 evidenced, 1 to do
DevOps Security6 of 7 evidenced, 1 to do
Logging and Threat Detection6 of 7 evidenced, 1 to do
Posture and Vulnerability Management6 of 7 evidenced, 1 to do
Governance and Strategy8 of 10 evidenced, 2 to do
Asset Management4 of 5 evidenced, 1 to do
Data Protection6 of 8 evidenced, 2 to do
Identity Management6 of 9 evidenced, 3 to do
Endpoint Security2 of 3 evidenced, 1 to do
Incident Response4 of 7 evidenced, 3 to do
Network Security5 of 10 evidenced, 5 to do
Backup and Recovery2 of 4 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.

CCM-DCS-06ASB v3 AM-1argued against and upheld
Track asset inventory and their risks

Every physical and logical asset held in a secured tracking catalogue is the inventory.

CCM-DCS-05ASB v3 AM-1argued against and upheld
Track asset inventory and their risks

Classifying assets by the business risk they carry records their risk.

CCM-UEM-02ASB v3 AM-2argued against and upheld
Use only approved services

A maintained list of permitted services, applications and sources is deployment restriction.

CCM-IAM-05ASB v3 AM-4argued against and upheld
Limit access to asset management

Granting each identity only the access its function requires limits asset management rights.

CCM-CCC-04ASB v3 AM-4argued against and upheld
Limit access to asset management

Preventing assets being added, removed, updated or administered without authorisation is this control.

CCM-UEM-02ASB v3 AM-5argued against and upheld
Use only approved applications in virtual machine

Publishing and maintaining the allowed application list is the allow list required.

CCM-BCR-08ASB v3 BR-1argued against and upheld
Ensure regular automated backups

Backup on a defined cycle with protected copies is the automated backup requirement.

CCM-BCR-08ASB v3 BR-4argued against and upheld
Regularly test backup

Proving by restore testing that data can actually be recovered is this requirement.

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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