HIPAA Security RuleCIS Controls v8

HIPAA Security Rule covers 17% of CIS Controls v8

26 of the 153 controls in CIS Controls v8 are already satisfied by evidence you collected for HIPAA Security Rule. 127 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.

17%
of the target already covered
26
controls evidenced
127
genuine gaps
78
claims rejected in review

What this leaves you to do

CIS Controls v8 has 153 controls. Holding HIPAA Security Rule already evidences 26 of them, so the work in front of you is 127 controls, not 153, which is 83% of the standard rather than all of it.

That is the whole claim. Every number in that sentence comes from the two counts above it and can be re-derived from the free tools without taking our word for any of it.

In money, using only our numbers. The full report is $299 and names 26 controls of CIS Controls v8 you do not have to implement again, which is $11.50 per control identified. That arithmetic uses our price and our count and assumes nothing about you.

In your hours, using your assumption. We do not know what a control costs you to implement, so pick the column that looks like your organisation. These are your figures, not our claim.

If a control takes you4 hours8 hours16 hours
the 26 already evidenced are104 hours208 hours416 hours
and the 127 remaining are508 hours1,016 hours2,032 hours

Multiply by your own rate. We publish no rate because we have not measured yours, and a number built on an invented rate is the kind of claim this platform exists to argue against.

This number is directional. It says how much of CIS Controls v8 your HIPAA Security Rule 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.

150 candidate mappings were examined and 80 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.

CIS Control 11: Data Recovery4 of 5 evidenced, 1 to do
CIS Control 3: Data Protection7 of 14 evidenced, 7 to do
CIS Control 15: Service Provider Management3 of 7 evidenced, 4 to do
CIS Control 6: Access Control Management3 of 8 evidenced, 5 to do
CIS Control 8: Audit Log Management3 of 12 evidenced, 9 to do
CIS Control 14: Security Awareness and Skills Training2 of 9 evidenced, 7 to do
CIS Control 17: Incident Response Management2 of 9 evidenced, 7 to do
CIS Control 10: Malware Defenses1 of 7 evidenced, 6 to do
CIS Control 4: Secure Configuration of Enterprise Assets and Software1 of 12 evidenced, 11 to do
CIS Control 1: Inventory and Control of Enterprise Assets0 of 5 evidenced, 5 to do
CIS Control 12: Network Infrastructure Management0 of 8 evidenced, 8 to do
CIS Control 13: Network Monitoring and Defense0 of 11 evidenced, 11 to do
CIS Control 16: Application Software Security0 of 14 evidenced, 14 to do
CIS Control 18: Penetration Testing0 of 5 evidenced, 5 to do
CIS Control 2: Inventory and Control of Software Assets0 of 7 evidenced, 7 to do
CIS Control 5: Account Management0 of 6 evidenced, 6 to do
CIS Control 7: Continuous Vulnerability Management0 of 7 evidenced, 7 to do
CIS Control 9: Email and Web Browser Protections0 of 7 evidenced, 7 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.

164.308(a)(5)(ii)(B)CIS-10.1argued against and upheld
Deploy and Maintain Anti-Malware Software

Guarding against and detecting malicious software is endpoint anti malware deployment.

164.308(a)(7)(ii)(E)CIS-11.1argued against and upheld
Establish and Maintain a Data Recovery Process

Criticality analysis supplies the recovery prioritization the process must address.

164.308(a)(7)(ii)(B)CIS-11.1argued against and upheld
Establish and Maintain a Data Recovery Process

The disaster recovery plan documents recovery scope, prioritization and procedures.

164.308(a)(7)(ii)(A)CIS-11.2argued against and upheld
Perform Automated Backups

The data backup plan requires retrievable exact copies of ePHI to be maintained.

164.308(a)(7)(ii)(A)CIS-11.3argued against and upheld
Protect Recovery Data

Backup copies of ePHI carry the same encryption and safeguard obligations as the source.

164.308(a)(7)(ii)(D)CIS-11.5argued against and upheld
Test Data Recovery

Periodic testing and revision of contingency plans covers restoration testing.

164.308(a)(5)(ii)(A)CIS-14.1argued against and upheld
Establish and Maintain a Security Awareness Program

Periodic security reminders are the ongoing reinforcement an awareness programme needs.

164.308(a)(5)(i)CIS-14.1argued against and upheld
Establish and Maintain a Security Awareness Program

A workforce security awareness and training program is the same programme requirement.

Claims that did not hold

78 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.

164.310(d)(1)CIS-1.2
Address Unauthorized Assets

did not survive the adversarial verification pass run by qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 via openrouter. No per-edge rationale was recorded at the time, so the process is stated rather than a reason invented.

Claimed at low confidence before it was rejected.

164.308(a)(6)(ii)CIS-1.2
Address Unauthorized Assets

did not survive the adversarial verification pass run by qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 via openrouter. No per-edge rationale was recorded at the time, so the process is stated rather than a reason invented.

Claimed at medium confidence before it was rejected.

164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A)CIS-1.3
Utilize an Active Discovery Tool

did not survive the adversarial verification pass run by qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 via openrouter. No per-edge rationale was recorded at the time, so the process is stated rather than a reason invented.

Claimed at medium confidence before it was rejected.

164.312(b)CIS-1.3
Utilize an Active Discovery Tool

did not survive the adversarial verification pass run by qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 via openrouter. No per-edge rationale was recorded at the time, so the process is stated rather than a reason invented.

Claimed at low confidence before it was rejected.

164.308(a)(1)(ii)(D)CIS-1.4
Use Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Logging to Update Enterprise Asset Inventory

did not survive the adversarial verification pass run by qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 via openrouter. No per-edge rationale was recorded at the time, so the process is stated rather than a reason invented.

Claimed at high confidence before it was rejected.

164.308(a)(8)CIS-1.5
Use a Passive Asset Discovery Tool

did not survive the adversarial verification pass run by qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 via openrouter. No per-edge rationale was recorded at the time, so the process is stated rather than a reason invented.

Claimed at medium confidence before it was rejected.

164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A)CIS-1.5
Use a Passive Asset Discovery Tool

did not survive the adversarial verification pass run by qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 via openrouter. No per-edge rationale was recorded at the time, so the process is stated rather than a reason invented.

Claimed at high confidence before it was rejected.

164.308(a)(5)(ii)(B)CIS-10.2
Configure Automatic Anti-Malware Signature Updates

did not survive the adversarial verification pass run by Claude Code, Claude Max plan. No per-edge rationale was recorded at the time, so the process is stated rather than a reason invented.

Claimed at medium 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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