Framework overlap

Does CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses (2024) cover NIS2 Directive?

You hold CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses (2024) and have been told to do NIS2 Directive. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

38% of NIS2 Directive you already have

CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses (2024) already covers about 38% of NIS2 Directive, leaving 5 of 8 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 0 Likely covered 3 New work 5

No control in CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses (2024) maps directly to one in NIS2 Directive. Everything counted as covered is covered because both map to the same third standard, which is what a crosswalk is, but it is an inference rather than a lookup.

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses (2024) reaches these. This is the list to scope.

NIS2D-1
NIS2 Scope, Essential and Important Entities, Sectoral Coverage
NIS2D-3
Incident Reporting Obligations - Articles 23 and 30
NIS2D-4
Management Body Accountability and Training - Articles 20 and 26
NIS2D-7
Penalties, Enforcement, and Article 32-34 Supervision
NIS2D-8
Cross-Border Coordination, ENISA, CSIRTs Network, and CER Coordination
Show the 3 you already have
NIS2D-2
Cybersecurity Risk Management Measures - Article 21
NIS2D-5
Supply Chain Security - Article 21(2)(d) and 22
NIS2D-6
Vulnerability Disclosure and CVD Programme - Article 12 and 21

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses (2024) 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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