Framework overlap

Does FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT) cover OWASP ASVS?

You hold FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT) and have been told to do OWASP ASVS. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

57% of OWASP ASVS you already have

FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT) already covers about 57% of OWASP ASVS, leaving 6 of 14 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 0 Likely covered 8 New work 6

No control in FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT) maps directly to one in OWASP ASVS. 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 FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT) reaches these. This is the list to scope.

OWASPASVS-11
Business Logic Verification (V11)
OWASPASVS-12
File and Resources (V12)
OWASPASVS-13
API and Web Service Security (V13)
OWASPASVS-14
Configuration and Hardening (V14)
OWASPASVS-3
Session Management (V3)
OWASPASVS-5
Validation, Sanitization and Encoding (V5 + V5.3)
Show the 8 you already have
OWASPASVS-1
Architecture, Design and Threat Modelling (V1)
OWASPASVS-10
Malicious Code Verification (V10)
OWASPASVS-2
Authentication and Credential Storage (V2 + V2.4)
OWASPASVS-4
Access Control (V4 + V4.3)
OWASPASVS-6
Stored Cryptography (V6)
OWASPASVS-7
Error Handling and Logging (V7)
OWASPASVS-8
Data Protection (V8 + V8.3)
OWASPASVS-9
Communication Security (V9)

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT) 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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