NIST SP 800-218SOC 2

NIST SP 800-218 covers 14.8% of SOC 2

9 of the 61 controls in SOC 2 are already satisfied by evidence you collected for NIST SP 800-218. 52 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.

14.8%
of the target already covered
9
controls evidenced
52
genuine gaps
0
claims rejected in review

This number is directional. It says how much of SOC 2 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.

32 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.

PI - Processing Integrity3 of 5 evidenced, 2 to do
CC - Common Criteria (Security)6 of 33 evidenced, 27 to do
A - Availability0 of 3 evidenced, 3 to do
C - Confidentiality0 of 2 evidenced, 2 to do
P - Privacy0 of 18 evidenced, 18 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.3.2SOC2-CC5.2argued against and upheld
COSO principle 11: Selects and develops general controls over technology

Toolchain configuration is treated as code and its changes version controlled.

SP800-218-PO.1.2SOC2-CC5.2argued against and upheld
COSO principle 11: Selects and develops general controls over technology

Development tools, repositories and build systems are configured to enforce security requirements automatically.

SP800-218-PO.5.1SOC2-CC6.1argued against and upheld
Implements logical access security software, infrastructure and architectures over protected information assets

Development environments carry the logical access controls otherwise expected of production.

SP800-218-PW.4.4SOC2-CC6.8argued against and upheld
Controls to prevent or detect unauthorized or malicious software

Acquired components are verified before use, blocking unauthorised third party code.

SP800-218-PS.2.1SOC2-CC6.8argued against and upheld
Controls to prevent or detect unauthorized or malicious software

Release signing and published hashes let consumers detect substituted or tampered software.

SP800-218-PS.1.1SOC2-CC6.8argued against and upheld
Controls to prevent or detect unauthorized or malicious software

Only authorised reviewed changes reach the code base, preventing unauthorised code introduction.

SP800-218-RV.1.1SOC2-CC7.1argued against and upheld
Detection and monitoring procedures for security events are in place

Continuous identification of vulnerabilities in released software finds newly discovered susceptibilities.

SP800-218-PW.8.1SOC2-CC7.1argued against and upheld
Detection and monitoring procedures for security events are in place

Dynamic and penetration testing on a defined cadence detects new vulnerabilities after change.

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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