Framework overlap

Does ISO 13485 cover POPIA?

You hold ISO 13485 and have been told to do POPIA. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

75% of POPIA you already have

ISO 13485 already covers about 75% of POPIA, leaving 2 of 8 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 3 Likely covered 3 New work 2

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in ISO 13485 reaches these. This is the list to scope.

POPIASA-1
Accountability, Processing Limitation, Lawful Basis, Codes
POPIASA-2
Purpose Specification, Collection Limitation, Further Processing Limitation
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POPIASA-4
Special Personal Information, Children, Information Quality, Documentation
POPIASA-5
Security Safeguards, Encryption, Access Control, Operator Obligations
POPIASA-7
Information Officer, Records of Processing, Notification, Training
POPIASA-3
Data Subject Rights (Access, Correction, Objection), Automated Decisions
POPIASA-6
Transborder Information Flows, Direct Marketing
POPIASA-8
Information Regulator Cooperation, Complaints, Enforcement

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in ISO 13485 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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