NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5CMMC 2.0

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 covers 85.5% of CMMC 2.0

94 of the 110 controls in CMMC 2.0 are already satisfied by evidence you collected for NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5. 16 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.

85.5%
of the target already covered
94
controls evidenced
16
genuine gaps
96
claims rejected in review

What this leaves you to do

CMMC 2.0 has 110 controls. Holding NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 already evidences 94 of them, so the work in front of you is 16 controls, not 110, which is 15% 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 94 controls of CMMC 2.0 you do not have to implement again, which is $3.18 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 you4 hours8 hours16 hours
the 94 already evidenced are376 hours752 hours1,504 hours
and the 16 remaining are64 hours128 hours256 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 CMMC 2.0 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.

222 candidate mappings were examined and 99 were removed. Signed off 2026-08-19, review level machine verified. Coverage here is high and that is the correct answer rather than overreach. CMMC 2.0 Level 2 is NIST SP 800-171, tailored directly from NIST SP 800-53. Mappings were judged by Claude Code rather than read line by line by a practitioner, and every claim shows its reasoning so you can check it.

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.

Security Assessment4 of 4 evidenced
Awareness and Training3 of 3 evidenced
Incident Response3 of 3 evidenced
Risk Assessment3 of 3 evidenced
Personnel Security2 of 2 evidenced
Audit and Accountability8 of 9 evidenced, 1 to do
Configuration Management8 of 9 evidenced, 1 to do
Media Protection8 of 9 evidenced, 1 to do
System and Information Integrity6 of 7 evidenced, 1 to do
Maintenance5 of 6 evidenced, 1 to do
Physical Protection5 of 6 evidenced, 1 to do
Access Control18 of 22 evidenced, 4 to do
System and Communications Protection13 of 16 evidenced, 3 to do
Identification and Authentication8 of 11 evidenced, 3 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.

NIST800-AC-2AC.L2-3.1.1argued against and upheld
Authorized Access Control

AC-2 governs which users and devices hold accounts and therefore system access.

NIST800-AC-3AC.L2-3.1.1argued against and upheld
Authorized Access Control

AC-3 enforces approved authorizations, limiting access to authorized users and processes.

NIST800-AC-11AC.L2-3.1.10argued against and upheld
Session Lock

AC-11 device lock requires session lock after inactivity with pattern hiding.

NIST800-AC-12AC.L2-3.1.11argued against and upheld
Session Termination

AC-12 session termination requires automatic termination after defined conditions.

NIST800-SC-8AC.L2-3.1.13argued against and upheld
Remote Access Confidentiality

SC-8 requires cryptographic protection of transmitted information, which covers remote sessions.

NIST800-AC-17AC.L2-3.1.15argued against and upheld
Privileged Remote Access

AC-17 requires authorizing each type of remote access, including privileged commands.

NIST800-AC-18AC.L2-3.1.16argued against and upheld
Wireless Access Authorization

AC-18 requires authorizing wireless access before allowing connections.

NIST800-AC-18AC.L2-3.1.17argued against and upheld
Wireless Access Protection

AC-18 requires connection and configuration requirements for wireless, including authentication.

Claims that did not hold

96 proposed mappings for this pair were rejected. They are kept in the graph rather than deleted, so what was thrown out is as inspectable as what survived. A crosswalk that never rejects anything is not being judged.

NIST800-AC-6AC.L2-3.1.1
Authorized Access Control

Not corroborated on review of this pair by Claude Code

Claimed at medium confidence before it was rejected.

NIST800-AC-4AC.L2-3.1.1
Authorized Access Control

did not survive the adversarial verification pass run by qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 via openrouter. No per-edge rationale was recorded at the time, so the process is stated rather than a reason invented.

Claimed at medium confidence before it was rejected.

NIST800-AC-17AC.L2-3.1.12
Control Remote Access

did not survive the adversarial verification pass run by Claude Code, Claude Max plan. No per-edge rationale was recorded at the time, so the process is stated rather than a reason invented.

Claimed at high confidence before it was rejected.

NIST800-IA-2AC.L2-3.1.15
Privileged Remote Access

Not corroborated on review of this pair by Claude Code

Claimed at medium confidence before it was rejected.

NIST800-AC-6AC.L2-3.1.15
Privileged Remote Access

Not corroborated on review of this pair by Claude Code

Claimed at medium confidence before it was rejected.

NIST800-SC-8AC.L2-3.1.15
Privileged Remote Access

Not corroborated on review of this pair by Claude Code

Claimed at medium confidence before it was rejected.

NIST800-MP-7AC.L2-3.1.19
Encrypt CUI on Mobile

did not survive the adversarial verification pass run by qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 via openrouter. No per-edge rationale was recorded at the time, so the process is stated rather than a reason invented.

Claimed at low confidence before it was rejected.

NIST800-AC-19AC.L2-3.1.19
Encrypt CUI on Mobile

did not survive the adversarial verification pass run by Claude Code, Claude Max plan. No per-edge rationale was recorded at the time, so the process is stated rather than a reason invented.

Claimed at high confidence before it was rejected.

The full report

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