Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) v4.0.1NIST SP 800-172

Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) v4.0.1 covers 65.7% of NIST SP 800-172

23 of the 35 controls in NIST SP 800-172 are already satisfied by evidence you collected for Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) v4.0.1. 12 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.

65.7%
of the target already covered
23
controls evidenced
12
genuine gaps
2
claims rejected in review

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

62 candidate mappings were examined and 2 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.

AC3 of 3 evidenced
CM3 of 3 evidenced
IA3 of 3 evidenced
CA1 of 1 evidenced
SI5 of 7 evidenced, 2 to do
RA4 of 7 evidenced, 3 to do
AT1 of 2 evidenced, 1 to do
IR1 of 2 evidenced, 1 to do
PS1 of 2 evidenced, 1 to do
SC1 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.

CCM-IAM-043.1.1eargued against and upheld
Dual Authorization for Sensitive System Operations

Splitting duties so no one identity both performs and approves a sensitive action is dual authorization.

CCM-DCS-083.1.2eargued against and upheld
Restrict Access to Organization-Owned, Provisioned, or Issued Information Resources

Authenticating connections by equipment identity restricts access to organisation issued resources.

CCM-IVS-063.1.3eargued against and upheld
Employ Secure Information Transfer Solutions

Segmentation and segregation with monitored boundaries controls flows between domains.

CCM-LOG-053.11.2eargued against and upheld
Threat Hunting

Reviewing audit logs for activity outside expected patterns and acting on it is threat hunting.

CCM-A&A-023.11.5eargued against and upheld
Assess Effectiveness of Security Solutions

Independent assessment against recognised standards repeated annually is this assessment.

CCM-STA-113.11.5eargued against and upheld
Assess Effectiveness of Security Solutions

Annual internal testing of whether controls are working meets the effectiveness requirement.

CCM-STA-143.11.6eargued against and upheld
Supply Chain Risk Assessment, Response, and Monitoring

Periodic security assessments across every supply chain organisation is the monitoring limb.

CCM-STA-083.11.6eargued against and upheld
Supply Chain Risk Assessment, Response, and Monitoring

Reassessing supply chain risk on a recurring cycle rather than at onboarding is this requirement.

Claims that did not hold

2 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.

CCM-IVS-063.13.1e
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.

CCM-IAM-053.13.2e
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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