Framework overlap

Does ISO 13485 cover UK Defence Standard 05-138?

You hold ISO 13485 and have been told to do UK Defence Standard 05-138. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

20% of UK Defence Standard 05-138 you already have

ISO 13485 already covers about 20% of UK Defence Standard 05-138, leaving 4 of 5 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 0 Likely covered 1 New work 4

No control in ISO 13485 maps directly to one in UK Defence Standard 05-138. 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 ISO 13485 reaches these. This is the list to scope.

UKDEFSTD-2
Asset Management, Access Control, Cryptography
UKDEFSTD-3
Supply Chain Risk Management
UKDEFSTD-4
Incident Response and Reporting
UKDEFSTD-5
Training, Audit, Continuous Improvement
Show the 1 you already have
UKDEFSTD-1
Cyber Defence Cyber Risk Profile (CRP)

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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