SOC 2C5 (Germany)

SOC 2 covers 29.8% of C5 (Germany)

36 of the 121 controls in C5 (Germany) are already satisfied by evidence you collected for SOC 2. 85 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.

29.8%
of the target already covered
36
controls evidenced
85
genuine gaps
2
claims rejected in review

This number is directional. It says how much of C5 (Germany) your SOC 2 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.

124 candidate mappings were examined and 9 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.

C5: Security Policies and Instructions2 of 3 evidenced, 1 to do
C5: Security Incident Management3 of 5 evidenced, 2 to do
C5: Human Resources3 of 6 evidenced, 3 to do
C5: Compliance2 of 4 evidenced, 2 to do
C5: Identity and Access Management4 of 9 evidenced, 5 to do
C5: Control and Monitoring of Service Providers and Suppliers2 of 5 evidenced, 3 to do
C5: Operations9 of 24 evidenced, 15 to do
C5: Portability and Interoperability1 of 3 evidenced, 2 to do
C5: Organisation of Information Security2 of 7 evidenced, 5 to do
C5: Physical Security2 of 7 evidenced, 5 to do
C5: Communication Security2 of 8 evidenced, 6 to do
C5: Cryptography and Key Management1 of 4 evidenced, 3 to do
C5: Procurement, Development and Modification of Information Systems2 of 10 evidenced, 8 to do
C5: Asset Management1 of 6 evidenced, 5 to do
C5: Business Continuity Management0 of 4 evidenced, 4 to do
C5: Dealing with Investigation Requests from Government Agencies0 of 4 evidenced, 4 to do
C5: Product Safety and Security0 of 12 evidenced, 12 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.

SOC2-CC6.5C5-AM-04argued against and upheld
Decommissioning of Hardware

Protections are removed only once the ability to read or recover the data has been diminished, which is the erasure limb of decommissioning

SOC2-CC4.1C5-COM-03argued against and upheld
Internal audits of the information security management system

Ongoing and separate evaluations of whether controls are present and functioning are the internal audits this criterion requires

SOC2-CC4.2C5-COM-04argued against and upheld
Information on information security performance and management assessment of the ISMS

Evaluating deficiencies and communicating them to senior management and the board is the security performance reporting required

SOC2-CC7.2C5-COS-01argued against and upheld
Technical safeguards

Monitoring system components for anomalies indicative of malicious acts, with those anomalies analysed, is the detection of irregular traffic the criterion requires

SOC2-CC6.6C5-COS-04argued against and upheld
Cross-network access

Logical access measures against threats outside the system boundary are the perimeter control this criterion requires

SOC2-CC6.7C5-CRY-02argued against and upheld
Encryption of data for transmission (transport encryption)

Protecting information during transmission between authorised parties is the transport encryption required

SOC2-CC8.1C5-DEV-03argued against and upheld
Policies for changes to information systems

Authorising, documenting, testing, approving and implementing changes is the documented change management this criterion requires

SOC2-CC8.1C5-DEV-06argued against and upheld
Testing changes

Changes are tested and approved before implementation, which is the change testing required

Claims that did not hold

2 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.

SOC2-CC6.2C5-HR-05
Responsibilities in the event of termination or change of employment

judged against C5 criterion titles before the framework carried requirement text; does not hold against the real criterion. this criterion is about which security obligations continue to bind a person after their engagement ends and for how long; removing access when it is no longer required is access withdrawal and belongs to C5-IDM-04

Claimed at high confidence before it was rejected.

SOC2-CC6.4C5-PS-03
Perimeter Protection

judged against C5 criterion titles before the framework carried requirement text; does not hold against the real criterion. this criterion is structural: external doors, windows, walls and locking mechanisms that resist a burglary attempt for at least ten minutes; restricting physical access to authorised personnel is entry control and is already mapped to C5-PS-04

Claimed at high confidence before it was rejected.

The full report

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