UK Cyber EssentialsANSSI Guide d'hygiene informatique (42 mesures, v2.0)

UK Cyber Essentials covers 28.6% of ANSSI Guide d'hygiene informatique (42 mesures, v2.0)

12 of the 42 controls in ANSSI Guide d'hygiene informatique (42 mesures, v2.0) are already satisfied by evidence you collected for UK Cyber Essentials. 30 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.

28.6%
of the target already covered
12
controls evidenced
30
genuine gaps
0
claims rejected in review

This number is directional. It says how much of ANSSI Guide d'hygiene informatique (42 mesures, v2.0) your UK Cyber Essentials 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.

42 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.

ANSSI Hygiene VIII: Keep the Information System Up to Date (measures 34 and 35)2 of 2 evidenced
ANSSI Hygiene III: Authenticate and Control Access (measures 8 to 13)5 of 6 evidenced, 1 to do
ANSSI Hygiene II: Know the Information System (measures 4 to 7)2 of 4 evidenced, 2 to do
ANSSI Hygiene IV: Secure Workstations (measures 14 to 18)2 of 5 evidenced, 3 to do
ANSSI Hygiene VI: Secure Administration (measures 27 to 29)1 of 3 evidenced, 2 to do
ANSSI Hygiene I: Raise Awareness and Train (measures 1 to 3)0 of 3 evidenced, 3 to do
ANSSI Hygiene V: Secure the Network (measures 19 to 26)0 of 8 evidenced, 8 to do
ANSSI Hygiene VII: Manage Mobile Working (measures 30 to 33)0 of 4 evidenced, 4 to do
ANSSI Hygiene IX: Supervise, Audit and Respond (measures 36 to 40)0 of 5 evidenced, 5 to do
ANSSI Hygiene X: Going Further (measures 41 and 42)0 of 2 evidenced, 2 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.

CE-SC.5mesure 10argued against and upheld
Define and Verify Password Selection and Sizing Rules

Both set password length and quality rules and require they be enforced.

CE-SC.2mesure 12argued against and upheld
Change Default Authentication Elements on Equipment and Services

Both require vendor default passwords changed or removed before deployment.

CE-FW.2mesure 12argued against and upheld
Change Default Authentication Elements on Equipment and Services

Both require default administrative credentials on network equipment to be changed.

CE-AC.8mesure 13argued against and upheld
Prefer Strong Authentication Where Possible

Recognised passwordless methods such as FIDO2 are the strong authentication ANSSI asks for.

CE-AC.7mesure 13argued against and upheld
Prefer Strong Authentication Where Possible

Both mandate strong authentication for privileged administrative accounts.

CE-SC.6mesure 13argued against and upheld
Prefer Strong Authentication Where Possible

Both require multi-factor authentication for externally reachable cloud service accounts.

CE-SC.1mesure 14argued against and upheld
Apply a Minimum Security Level Across the Whole Estate

Both require unnecessary accounts, software and services removed to set a baseline.

CE-FW.6mesure 17argued against and upheld
Enable and Configure the Local Firewall on Workstations

Both require the host-based software firewall enabled and configured on workstations.

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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