NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5NIST SP 800-172

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 covers 68.6% of NIST SP 800-172

24 of the 35 controls in NIST SP 800-172 are already satisfied by evidence you collected for NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5. 11 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.

68.6%
of the target already covered
24
controls evidenced
11
genuine gaps
5
claims rejected in review

What this leaves you to do

NIST SP 800-172 has 35 controls. Holding NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 already evidences 24 of them, so the work in front of you is 11 controls, not 35, which is 31% 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 24 controls of NIST SP 800-172 you do not have to implement again, which is $12.46 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 24 already evidenced are96 hours192 hours384 hours
and the 11 remaining are44 hours88 hours176 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 NIST SP 800-172 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.

48 candidate mappings were examined and 5 were removed. Signed off 2026-08-19.

Claims that did not hold

5 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.

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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