Framework overlap

Does FFIEC IT Examination Handbook cover NERC CIP?

You hold FFIEC IT Examination Handbook and have been told to do NERC CIP. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

38% of NERC CIP you already have

FFIEC IT Examination Handbook already covers about 38% of NERC CIP, leaving 5 of 8 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 3 Likely covered 0 New work 5

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in FFIEC IT Examination Handbook reaches these. This is the list to scope.

NERCCIP-1
BES Cyber System Categorization and Security Management Controls (CIP-002 + CIP-003)
NERCCIP-2
Personnel and Training (CIP-004)
NERCCIP-3
Electronic Security Perimeters + Control Center Communications (CIP-005 + CIP-012)
NERCCIP-4
Physical Security of BES Cyber Systems + Transmission Stations (CIP-006 + CIP-014)
NERCCIP-7
BES Cyber System Information Protection (CIP-011)
Show the 3 you already have
NERCCIP-5
System Security Management + Configuration Change Management and Vulnerability Assessments (CIP-007 + CIP-010)
NERCCIP-6
Incident Reporting and Response Planning + Recovery Plans (CIP-008 + CIP-009)
NERCCIP-8
Supply Chain Risk Management (CIP-013)

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in FFIEC IT Examination Handbook 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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