Framework overlap

Does NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) cover OWASP SAMM?

You hold NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) and have been told to do OWASP SAMM. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

80% of OWASP SAMM you already have

NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) already covers about 80% of OWASP SAMM, leaving 1 of 5 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 3 Likely covered 1 New work 1

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) reaches these. This is the list to scope.

OWASPSAMM-3
Implementation: Secure Build, Secure Deployment, Defect Management
Show the 4 you already have
OWASPSAMM-1
Governance: Strategy, Policy, Compliance, Education, Champions
OWASPSAMM-2
Design: Threat Assessment, Security Requirements, Security Architecture
OWASPSAMM-4
Verification: Architecture Assessment, Requirements-Driven Testing, Security Testing
OWASPSAMM-5
Operations: Incident Management, Environment Management, Operational Management

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) 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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