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Monthly Selected Authority Documents - January, 2022

Here is a list of the 50 most selected Authority Documents in the Common Controls Hub this past...

Here is a list of the 50 most selected Authority Documents in the Common Controls Hub this past month. We also list how many groups each Authority Document has been assigned to and how many initiatives it has been assigned to.



AD Common Name AD Type Selected Groups Initiatives
ISO 27001-2013 International or National Standard 24 187 11
hipaa security rule Regulation or Statute 21 4 1
NIST SP 800-53 R5 International or National Standard 19 8 5
NIST CSF 1.1 International or National Standard 18 34 12
EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Regulation or Statute 15 164 10
Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard, Requirements and Security Assessment Procedures, Version 3.2.1 Contractual Obligation 13 4 3
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Bill or Act 11 2 3
CobiT Safe Harbor 10 162 1
Control Baselines for Information Systems and Organizations, NIST Special Publication 800-53B, Low Impact Baseline, October 2020 International or National Standard 10 2 0
CIS Controls, V8 Best Practice Guideline 9 0 0
ISO 27005 R 2011 International or National Standard 9 12 3
ISO/IEC 27701:2019 International or National Standard 9 12 3
NIST SP 800-63C International or National Standard 9 4 2
BSI Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalogue (C5) Best Practice Guideline 8 10 0
NIST SP 800-171, Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations International or National Standard 8 3 2
NIST SP 800-63A International or National Standard 8 4 3
NIST SP 800-63B International or National Standard 8 4 3
Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations, NIST SP 800-53, High Impact Baseline, Revision 4 International or National Standard 8 4 0
AICPA Reporting on Controls at a Service Organization SOC-2 Safe Harbor 7 137 4
HIPAA Bill or Act 7 9 4
ISO/IEC 27002:2013(E) International or National Standard 7 139 7
SOC2 Safe Harbor 7 0 0
Cyber Essentials Scheme (CES) Questionnaire Best Practice Guideline 6 2 0
FedRAMP Baseline Security Controls Audit Guideline 6 124 0
Gramm Leach Bliley Bill or Act 6 0 0
NIST SP 800 66 Safe Harbor 6 25 1
PCI DSS 3.0 Requirements Self-Regulatory Body Requirement 6 95 1
PCI DSS 3.2 SAQ D Merchant Contractual Obligation 6 6 0
PCI DSS Requirements and Security Assessment Procedures Contractual Obligation 6 146 4
PCI SAQ A v3.2 Contractual Obligation 6 5 3
23 NYCRR 500 Regulation or Statute 5 9 3
CMMC Level 5 Best Practice Guideline 5 2 0
Commission of the European Communities Information Technology Security Evaluation Manual Safe Harbor 5 1 0
Control Baselines for Information Systems and Organizations, NIST Special Publication 800-53B, Moderate Impact Baseline, October 2020 International or National Standard 5 2 0
Czech Republic Data Protection Act Regulation or Statute 5 0 0
EU 8th Directive Regulation or Statute 5 3 0
ISO 27002 International or National Standard 5 7 2
ISO/IEC 27017:2015(E) Self-Regulatory Body Requirement 5 14 4
NIST SP 800-39 International or National Standard 5 4 1
NIST SP 800-53 R4 High Impact, Deprecated International or National Standard 5 168 4
ACPO Good Practice Guidefor Digital Evidence Best Practice Guideline 4 1 0
Australian Government Information Security Manual Controls International or National Standard 4 3 0
Bosnia Law on Protection of Personal Data 2001 Regulation or Statute 4 0 0
California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 Bill or Act 4 1 1
California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 Bill or Act 4 39 1
China Personal Data Ordinance of Hong Kong 2 Regulation or Statute 4 7 0
Cloud Controls Matrix, v4.0 Self-Regulatory Body Requirement 4 0 0
CMMC Level 3 Best Practice Guideline 4 4 2
COSO Enterprise Risk Management (2017) Best Practice Guideline 4 11 3
CSIS 20 Critical Security Controls Best Practice Guideline 4 157 0