Framework overlap

Does GDPR cover NIST SP 800-137?

You hold GDPR and have been told to do NIST SP 800-137. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

63% of NIST SP 800-137 you already have

GDPR already covers about 63% of NIST SP 800-137, leaving 3 of 8 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 0 Likely covered 5 New work 3

No control in GDPR maps directly to one in NIST SP 800-137. 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 GDPR reaches these. This is the list to scope.

NISTSP137-2
Monitoring Metrics, Measures, and Frequencies
NISTSP137-3
ISCM Technical Architecture and Automation
NISTSP137-8
Programme Review, Training, and Third-Party ISCM
Show the 5 you already have
NISTSP137-1
ISCM Strategy, Governance, and Volatility Assessment
NISTSP137-4
Security Status Reporting and Risk Score Aggregation
NISTSP137-5
Vulnerability + Patch + Configuration Status Monitoring
NISTSP137-6
Malware, Identity Access, and Network Boundary Monitoring
NISTSP137-7
Incident Response Integration and Ongoing Authorization

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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