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NIST SP 800-218FedRAMP Moderate

NIST SP 800-218 covers 6.8% of FedRAMP Moderate

22 of the 323 controls in FedRAMP Moderate are already satisfied by evidence you collected for NIST SP 800-218. 301 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.

6.8%
of the target already covered
22
controls evidenced
301
genuine gaps
0
claims rejected in review

This number is directional. It says how much of FedRAMP Moderate 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.

60 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.

SA - System and Services Acquisition8 of 21 evidenced, 13 to do
RA - Risk Assessment3 of 11 evidenced, 8 to do
SI - System and Information Integrity6 of 24 evidenced, 18 to do
CM - Configuration Management3 of 27 evidenced, 24 to do
SR - Supply Chain Risk Management1 of 12 evidenced, 11 to do
CA - Assessment, Authorization, and Monitoring1 of 14 evidenced, 13 to do
AC - Access Control0 of 43 evidenced, 43 to do
AT - Awareness and Training0 of 6 evidenced, 6 to do
AU - Audit and Accountability0 of 16 evidenced, 16 to do
CP - Contingency Planning0 of 23 evidenced, 23 to do
IA - Identification and Authentication0 of 27 evidenced, 27 to do
IR - Incident Response0 of 17 evidenced, 17 to do
MA - Maintenance0 of 10 evidenced, 10 to do
MP - Media Protection0 of 7 evidenced, 7 to do
PE - Physical and Environmental Protection0 of 19 evidenced, 19 to do
PL - Planning0 of 7 evidenced, 7 to do
PS - Personnel Security0 of 10 evidenced, 10 to do
SC - System and Communications Protection0 of 29 evidenced, 29 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-PW.8.1CA-8argued against and upheld
Penetration Testing

Penetration testing on a defined cadence tied to risk is stated directly by this control.

SP800-218-PW.7.1CM-3argued against and upheld
Configuration Change Control

Review of changed source for vulnerabilities is the security impact analysis this control requires.

SP800-218-PS.1.1CM-3argued against and upheld
Configuration Change Control

All code changes reviewed, approved and logged is configuration change control in practice.

SP800-218-PW.8.2CM-3(2)argued against and upheld
Testing, Validation, and Documentation of Changes

Documented executable testing before release validates changes prior to operational implementation.

SP800-218-PS.1.1CM-5argued against and upheld
Access Restrictions for Change

Protected branches restricting who may change code are enforced logical access restrictions for change.

SP800-218-RV.1.1RA-5argued against and upheld
Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning

Ongoing identification of vulnerabilities in released software is application vulnerability monitoring.

SP800-218-PW.8.1RA-5argued against and upheld
Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning

Dynamic testing of executable software is web application vulnerability scanning.

SP800-218-RV.1.3RA-5(11)argued against and upheld
Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning | Public Disclosure Program. Establish a public reporting channel for receiving reports of vulnerabilities in organizational systems and system components

A vulnerability disclosure policy with defined roles establishes the public reporting channel.

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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