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3 of the 723 frameworks in our corpus warn about this same failure, across 70 separate controls. That convergence is the measurement: it is not one standard's opinion.

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3 standards bodies wrote this down separately. None of them consulted the others. That is not a preference you can argue with, it is what happens.From 70 controls across our corpus

Australian Government Information Security Manual Evidence & Implementation Kit

This is the complete documentation set: an adopt-ready artifact for every control in policy and procedure text you edit rather than draft, and the evidence checklist an auditor asks for against each.

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The same set every buyer of this kit receives. Nothing here is produced on request.

Who warns about it

Every framework below independently names this failure. They were written by different bodies, in different jurisdictions, for different industries, and they agree.

What an auditor asks for

The artefacts named on the controls that warn about this failure. This is what closes it, and what you will be asked to produce when somebody checks.

What closing it also buys you

The 69 controls that warn about this failure map onto controls in other frameworks. Close them here and this much of each of those is closed too. It is the same work counted once, which is usually the difference between a programme that finishes and one that does not.

NERC CIP87
ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents13
IEC 624434
APRA CPS 23411
FFIEC IT Examination Handbook5
BSI IT-Grundschutz5
API 116412
EASA Part-IS8
NIST SP 800-171A9
NIST SP 800-171A Rev 38
ISO 22320:20188
ISO 270196

Scaled against the framework this reaches furthest into, not against a hundred percent. Exact figures below.

Also progressesCovered Controls reached
NERC CIP
North America
87.5%7 of 8
ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents
Australia
13.5%5 of 37
IEC 62443
International
4.9%4 of 81
APRA CPS 234
Australia
11.4%4 of 35
FFIEC IT Examination Handbook
United States
5.1%4 of 78
BSI IT-Grundschutz
Germany
5.5%3 of 55
API 1164
United States
12.5%3 of 24
EASA Part-IS
European Union
8.8%3 of 34
NIST SP 800-171A
United States
9.4%3 of 32
NIST SP 800-171A Rev 3
United States (NIST)
8.6%3 of 35
ISO 22320:2018
International
8.1%3 of 37
ISO 27019
International
6.5%3 of 46

Read as: closing this failure reaches that share of the named framework's control library through cross-framework mappings held in our corpus. It is not a claim of compliance with that framework, it is a measure of how much of it you have already touched.

Where this comes from

Harvested from the control library itself. Every control in our corpus carries the evidence an auditor expects and the ways implementations commonly fail, recorded when that control was verified against its source document. This page is those two fields, for one failure, across every framework that names it.

The overlap is computed by traversing 332,959 cross-framework control mappings out from the specific controls that warn about this failure, not from the frameworks they sit in. Those mappings were built control by control against source documents.

Nothing here is inferred, predicted or scored. The number at the top is a count of frameworks.

Where this goes next

  1. The other failures the whole industry independently agrees on:The full catalogue →
  2. Everything else Australian Information Security Manual asks for, and what it overlaps with:Australian Information Security Manual in full →
  3. Which companies are disclosing the events this failure produces:Who disclosed it →
  4. What changed in those disclosures this week:What changed →
  5. And today's story, which is usually one of these arriving in public:Today's edition →

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