Framework overlap

Does SOC 2 cover NIST SP 800-88?

You hold SOC 2 and have been told to do NIST SP 800-88. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

63% of NIST SP 800-88 you already have

SOC 2 already covers about 63% of NIST SP 800-88, leaving 3 of 8 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 0 Likely covered 5 New work 3

No control in SOC 2 maps directly to one in NIST SP 800-88. 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 SOC 2 reaches these. This is the list to scope.

NISTSP88-2
Sanitization Method Categories: Clear, Purge, Destroy
NISTSP88-3
Media-Type Sanitization: Magnetic, SSD, Optical, Mobile, Network, Embedded
NISTSP88-6
Third-Party Sanitization Providers and Vendor Qualification
Show the 5 you already have
NISTSP88-1
Media Sanitization Policy, Roles, and Decision Framework
NISTSP88-4
Cryptographic Erase, Key Management, and Verification of Erase
NISTSP88-5
Media Inventory, Tracking, Chain of Custody, and Sanitization Records
NISTSP88-7
Verification, Audit, Training, and Environmental/Safety Controls
NISTSP88-8
Cloud-Resident Data, Hosted Storage, and Scope Boundaries

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in SOC 2 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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