Framework overlap

Does ISO/IEC 38500:2024 cover ISO 55001:2014?

You hold ISO/IEC 38500:2024 and have been told to do ISO 55001:2014. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

52% of ISO 55001:2014 you already have

ISO/IEC 38500:2024 already covers about 52% of ISO 55001:2014, leaving 10 of 21 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 5 Likely covered 6 New work 10

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in ISO/IEC 38500:2024 reaches these. This is the list to scope.

10.1
Nonconformity and corrective action
10.3
Continual improvement
4.1
Understanding the organization and its context
4.2
Understanding the needs and expectations of stakeholders
4.3
Determining the scope of the asset management system
5.1
Leadership and commitment
6.1
Actions to address risks and opportunities for the asset management system
6.2
Asset management objectives and planning to achieve them
8.1
Operational planning and control
9.1
Monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation
Show the 11 you already have
5.2
Policy
7.4
Communication
8.2
Management of change
8.3
Outsourcing
9.3
Management review
10.2
Preventive action
4.4
Asset management system
5.3
Organizational roles, responsibilities and authorities
7.2
Competence
7.6
Documented information
9.2
Internal audit

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in ISO/IEC 38500:2024 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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