NIST SP 800-218 covers 8.5% of CIS Controls v8
13 of the 153 controls in CIS Controls v8 are already satisfied by evidence you collected for NIST SP 800-218. 140 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.
This number is directional. It says how much of CIS Controls v8 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.
40 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.
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.
Defined criteria for assessing software security before release is the release gate in that process.
Toolchain configured to enforce the secure development policy evidences the process being maintained.
Assigned secure development roles and responsibilities are part of the process this safeguard requires.
Documented and maintained software security requirements are the core of a secure development process.
Threat modelling feeding mitigations into design applies secure design principles to architecture.
Building on standardized security features rather than proprietary ones is a secure design principle.
Reusing well secured components for common functions is leveraging vetted modules.
Using standardized security services instead of proprietary implementations is stated directly here.
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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