Framework overlap

Does ISO 27017 cover OWASP API Security Top 10?

You hold ISO 27017 and have been told to do OWASP API Security Top 10. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

50% of OWASP API Security Top 10 you already have

ISO 27017 already covers about 50% of OWASP API Security Top 10, leaving 4 of 8 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 0 Likely covered 4 New work 4

No control in ISO 27017 maps directly to one in OWASP API Security Top 10. 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 27017 reaches these. This is the list to scope.

OWASPAPI-4
Unrestricted Resource Consumption and Sensitive Business Flows
OWASPAPI-5
Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) and Input Validation
OWASPAPI-7
Improper Inventory Management and Unsafe API Consumption
OWASPAPI-8
Automated Security Testing, Logging, and Monitoring
Show the 4 you already have
OWASPAPI-1
Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) and BFLA
OWASPAPI-2
Broken Authentication and Token Management
OWASPAPI-3
Broken Object Property Level Authorization (BOPLA)
OWASPAPI-6
Security Misconfiguration and Secure API Design

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in ISO 27017 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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