Framework overlap

Does NIST SP 800-218 cover BSIMM?

You hold NIST SP 800-218 and have been told to do BSIMM. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

100% of BSIMM you already have

NIST SP 800-218 already covers about 100% of BSIMM, leaving 0 of 36 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 36 Likely covered 0 New work 0

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in NIST SP 800-218 reaches these. This is the list to scope.

Nothing. Every control is reached.

Show the 36 you already have
AA1.1
Perform security feature review
AA1.4
Use a risk-ranking methodology for applications
AA2.1
Perform architecture analysis using STRIDE or equivalent
AM1.2
Create a data classification scheme and inventory
AM1.3
Identify potential attackers
AM1.5
Gather and use attack intelligence
CMVM1.1
Create or use an incident response capability for software
CMVM1.2
Identify software defects found in operations and feed them back to development
CMVM1.3
Track software bugs found in operations through the fix process
CMVM3.4
Operate a bug bounty program
CP1.1
Unify regulatory pressures
CP1.2
Identify privacy (PII) obligations
CP1.3
Create software security policy
CR1.2
Perform opportunistic code review
CR1.4
Use automated code review tools (SAST)
CR1.5
Make code review mandatory for all projects
PT1.1
Use external penetration testers
PT1.2
Feed penetration test results to defect management
PT1.3
Use penetration testing tools internally
SE1.2
Ensure host and network security basics are in place
SE1.3
Implement cloud security controls
SE3.6
Enhance application inventory with an operations bill of materials
SFD1.1
Build and publish security features
SFD1.2
Engage architecture teams with security
SM1.1
Publish process and evolve as necessary
SM1.3
Educate executives on software security
SM1.4
Implement security checkpoints and associated governance gates
SM2.2
Enforce gates with measurements and track exceptions
SR1.1
Create security standards
SR1.3
Translate compliance constraints to requirements
SR1.5
Identify open source and manage its risk
ST1.1
Perform edge/boundary value condition testing
ST1.3
Drive tests with security requirements and features
ST1.4
Integrate opportunistic security testing into the pipeline
T1.1
Conduct software security awareness training
T1.7
Deliver on-demand individual training

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in NIST SP 800-218 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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