NIST SP 800-218C5 (Germany)

NIST SP 800-218 covers 15.7% of C5 (Germany)

19 of the 121 controls in C5 (Germany) are already satisfied by evidence you collected for NIST SP 800-218. 102 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.

15.7%
of the target already covered
19
controls evidenced
102
genuine gaps
0
claims rejected in review

This number is directional. It says how much of C5 (Germany) your NIST SP 800-218 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.

41 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.

C5: Procurement, Development and Modification of Information Systems8 of 10 evidenced, 2 to do
C5: Product Safety and Security5 of 12 evidenced, 7 to do
C5: Compliance1 of 4 evidenced, 3 to do
C5: Security Incident Management1 of 5 evidenced, 4 to do
C5: Operations4 of 24 evidenced, 20 to do
C5: Asset Management0 of 6 evidenced, 6 to do
C5: Business Continuity Management0 of 4 evidenced, 4 to do
C5: Communication Security0 of 8 evidenced, 8 to do
C5: Cryptography and Key Management0 of 4 evidenced, 4 to do
C5: Human Resources0 of 6 evidenced, 6 to do
C5: Identity and Access Management0 of 9 evidenced, 9 to do
C5: Dealing with Investigation Requests from Government Agencies0 of 4 evidenced, 4 to do
C5: Organisation of Information Security0 of 7 evidenced, 7 to do
C5: Portability and Interoperability0 of 3 evidenced, 3 to do
C5: Physical Security0 of 7 evidenced, 7 to do
C5: Security Policies and Instructions0 of 3 evidenced, 3 to do
C5: Control and Monitoring of Service Providers and Suppliers0 of 5 evidenced, 5 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.

SP800-218-PO.1.1C5-COM-01argued against and upheld
Identification of applicable legal, regulatory, self-imposed or contractual requirements

Customer obligations, regulatory expectations and internal policy are identified and documented.

SP800-218-PW.5.1C5-DEV-01argued against and upheld
Policies for the development/procurement of information systems

Secure coding practice is the recognised engineering standard the policy must carry.

SP800-218-PO.1.1C5-DEV-01argued against and upheld
Policies for the development/procurement of information systems

Documented security requirements grounded in policy, regulation and threat landscape, kept accessible to developers.

SP800-218-PO.1.3C5-DEV-02argued against and upheld
Outsourcing of the development

Software security requirements are communicated to third parties providing components.

SP800-218-PS.1.1C5-DEV-03argued against and upheld
Policies for changes to information systems

Change rules require authorised contributors, review of every change and logging.

SP800-218-PO.4.1C5-DEV-03argued against and upheld
Policies for changes to information systems

Release criteria tied to risk make the testing and approval thresholds explicit.

SP800-218-PO.2.2C5-DEV-04argued against and upheld
Safety training and awareness programme regarding continuous software delivery and associated systems, components or tools

Recurring role appropriate secure development training with tracked completion and refresh.

SP800-218-PW.8.1C5-DEV-06argued against and upheld
Testing changes

Executable testing scope is tied to risk and to feature changes.

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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