Framework overlap

Does AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar cover ISO 37000:2021?

You hold AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar and have been told to do ISO 37000:2021. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

23% of ISO 37000:2021 you already have

AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar already covers about 23% of ISO 37000:2021, leaving 20 of 26 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 3 Likely covered 3 New work 20

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar reaches these. This is the list to scope.

ISO-37000-10.1
Accountability framework
ISO-37000-10.2
Transparency and reporting
ISO-37000-10.3
Governing body accountability
ISO-37000-11.1
Stakeholder identification
ISO-37000-11.2
Stakeholder engagement mechanisms
ISO-37000-11.3
Stakeholder responsiveness
ISO-37000-12.1
Ethical and effective leadership
ISO-37000-12.2
Leadership appointments
ISO-37000-13.1
Data and decisions
ISO-37000-15.1
Social responsibility and ethical behaviour
ISO-37000-6.2
Purpose communication
ISO-37000-6.3
Purpose alignment
ISO-37000-7.2
Value creation oversight
ISO-37000-7.3
Balancing stakeholder interests in value generation
ISO-37000-8.1
Strategy direction
ISO-37000-8.2
Strategy engagement
ISO-37000-8.3
Strategy monitoring
ISO-37000-9.1
Performance oversight
ISO-37000-9.2
Compliance oversight
ISO-37000-9.3
Delegation and oversight of management
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ISO-37000-14.2
Risk appetite and tolerance
ISO-37000-6.1
Purpose definition
ISO-37000-7.1
Value model
ISO-37000-12.3
Leadership development and succession
ISO-37000-14.1
Risk governance
ISO-37000-16.1
Organizational viability and sustainability

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar to that control. Likely covered means no direct mapping exists but both frameworks map to the same control in a third standard. New work means neither. We keep those separate rather than adding them into one friendlier number, because blending them would present a two-hop inference as a verified fact.

Coverage is not symmetric. Run it the other way and you will get a different number; both are correct.

From 332,959 cross-framework control mappings across 723 frameworks, 531 of them verified against their source documents. It does not tell you that you are compliant: a mapped control means the two standards ask for the same thing, not that you have done it.

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