NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 covers 83.5% of Azure Security Benchmark
71 of the 85 controls in Azure Security Benchmark are already satisfied by evidence you collected for NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5. 14 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.
What this leaves you to do
Azure Security Benchmark has 85 controls. Holding NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 already evidences 71 of them, so the work in front of you is 14 controls, not 85, which is 16% 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 71 controls of Azure Security Benchmark you do not have to implement again, which is $4.21 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 you | 4 hours | 8 hours | 16 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| the 71 already evidenced are | 284 hours | 568 hours | 1,136 hours |
| and the 14 remaining are | 56 hours | 112 hours | 224 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 Azure Security Benchmark your NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 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.
148 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.
An accurate component inventory kept current at the needed granularity with owner attributes matches.
Prohibiting or restricting the software and services not essential to the mission is service approval.
Least privilege limits who may change the management plane, which is asset management access.
Prohibiting unauthorized software and restricting execution is application allow listing.
Backups of user and system level information at a defined frequency with protection matches.
Backups must have their confidentiality, integrity and availability protected.
Backup obligations require the backup process to run and be confirmed against the defined policy.
Contingency plan testing at a defined frequency establishes that recovery actually works.
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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