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UK Cyber EssentialsFedRAMP Moderate

UK Cyber Essentials covers 9.3% of FedRAMP Moderate

30 of the 323 controls in FedRAMP Moderate are already satisfied by evidence you collected for UK Cyber Essentials. 293 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.

9.3%
of the target already covered
30
controls evidenced
293
genuine gaps
0
claims rejected in review

This number is directional. It says how much of FedRAMP Moderate 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.

72 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.

CM - Configuration Management7 of 27 evidenced, 20 to do
IA - Identification and Authentication6 of 27 evidenced, 21 to do
AC - Access Control8 of 43 evidenced, 35 to do
SI - System and Information Integrity3 of 24 evidenced, 21 to do
SC - System and Communications Protection3 of 29 evidenced, 26 to do
MA - Maintenance1 of 10 evidenced, 9 to do
PE - Physical and Environmental Protection1 of 19 evidenced, 18 to do
SA - System and Services Acquisition1 of 21 evidenced, 20 to do
AT - Awareness and Training0 of 6 evidenced, 6 to do
AU - Audit and Accountability0 of 16 evidenced, 16 to do
CA - Assessment, Authorization, and Monitoring0 of 14 evidenced, 14 to do
CP - Contingency Planning0 of 23 evidenced, 23 to do
IR - Incident Response0 of 17 evidenced, 17 to do
MP - Media Protection0 of 7 evidenced, 7 to do
PL - Planning0 of 7 evidenced, 7 to do
PS - Personnel Security0 of 10 evidenced, 10 to do
RA - Risk Assessment0 of 11 evidenced, 11 to do
SR - Supply Chain Risk Management0 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.

CE-AC.4AC-2argued against and upheld
Account Management

Both require privileged accounts approved and tracked across their life.

CE-AC.3AC-2argued against and upheld
Account Management

Both require accounts disabled or removed when they are no longer required.

CE-AC.1AC-2argued against and upheld
Account Management

Both require account creation approved by an authorised individual before it exists.

CE-AC.3AC-2(3)argued against and upheld
Disable Accounts

Both require accounts disabled within a defined timeframe on leaver or role change.

CE-AC.2AC-2(9)argued against and upheld
Restrictions on Use of Shared and Group Accounts

Both require a unique account per user, restricting use of shared credentials.

CE-AC.4AC-3argued against and upheld
Access Enforcement

Both require the system to grant only the privileges that were approved.

CE-AC.2AC-3argued against and upheld
Access Enforcement

Both require the system to authenticate the account before access is enforced.

CE-AC.6AC-6argued against and upheld
Least Privilege

Both require periodic review and removal of privileges no longer justified.

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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