Framework overlap

Does GDPR cover NERC CIP?

You hold GDPR and have been told to do NERC CIP. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

38% of NERC CIP you already have

GDPR already covers about 38% of NERC CIP, leaving 5 of 8 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 1 Likely covered 2 New work 5

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in GDPR 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 GDPR 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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