Framework overlap

Does NIST SP 800-160 cover ISO 19011:2018?

You hold NIST SP 800-160 and have been told to do ISO 19011:2018. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

35% of ISO 19011:2018 you already have

NIST SP 800-160 already covers about 35% of ISO 19011:2018, leaving 31 of 48 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 0 Likely covered 17 New work 31

No control in NIST SP 800-160 maps directly to one in ISO 19011:2018. 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 NIST SP 800-160 reaches these. This is the list to scope.

5.2
Establishing audit programme objectives
5.3
Determining and evaluating audit programme risks and opportunities
5.4.1
Roles and responsibilities of the individual(s) managing the audit programme
5.4.2
Competence of individual(s) managing audit programme
5.4.3
Establishing extent of audit programme
5.4.4
Determining audit programme resources
5.5.2
Defining the objectives, scope and criteria for an individual audit
5.5.5
Assigning responsibility for an individual audit to the audit team leader
5.5.6
Managing audit programme results
5.5.7
Managing and maintaining audit programme records
5.7
Reviewing and improving audit programme
6.2
Initiating audit
6.2.2
Establishing contact with auditee
6.2.3
Determining feasibility of audit
6.3.1
Performing review of documented information
6.3.2
Audit planning
6.3.4
Preparing documented information for audit
6.4.10
Conducting closing meeting
6.4.2
Assigning roles and responsibilities of guides and observers
6.4.4
Communicating during audit
6.4.5
Audit information availability and access
6.4.6
Reviewing documented information while conducting audit
6.4.7
Collecting and verifying information
6.5
Preparing and distributing audit report
6.6
Completing audit
7.2.2
Personal behaviour
7.2.5
Achieving audit team leader competence
7.3
Establishing auditor evaluation criteria
7.4
Selecting appropriate auditor evaluation method
7.5
Conducting auditor evaluation
7.6
Maintaining and improving auditor competence
Show the 17 you already have
5.4
Establishing the audit programme
5.5
Implementing audit programme
5.5.3
Selecting and determining audit methods
5.5.4
Selecting audit team members
5.6
Monitoring audit programme
6.3
Preparing audit activities
6.3.3
Assigning work to audit team
6.4
Conducting audit activities
6.4.3
Conducting opening meeting
6.4.8
Generating audit findings
6.4.9
Determining audit conclusions
6.5.1
Preparing audit report
6.5.2
Distributing audit report
6.7
Conducting audit follow-up
7.2
Determining auditor competence
7.2.3
Knowledge and skills
7.2.4
Achieving auditor competence

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in NIST SP 800-160 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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