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Monthly Selected Authority Documents - May, 2021

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 67 180 8
NIST CSF 1.1 International or National Standard 47 29 7
EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Regulation or Statute 42 159 10
AICPA Reporting on Controls at a Service Organization SOC-2 Safe Harbor 38 132 4
PCI DSS Requirements and Security Assessment Procedures Contractual Obligation 36 139 4
ISO/IEC 27002:2013(E) International or National Standard 32 134 4
NIST SP 800-53 R5 International or National Standard 30 5 2
NIST SP 800-171, Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations International or National Standard 28 1 2
CobiT Safe Harbor 25 157 1
CIS Controls, V7.1 Best Practice Guideline 21 4 2
FedRAMP Baseline Security Controls Audit Guideline 21 119 0
ISO 27002 International or National Standard 21 7 2
Cloud Controls Matrix, Version 3.0 Self-Regulatory Body Requirement 18 12 2
HIPAA Bill or Act 18 6 1
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Bill or Act 18 2 0
NIST SP 800-53 R4 International or National Standard 17 3 2
ISO/IEC 27017:2015(E) Self-Regulatory Body Requirement 16 12 4
California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 Bill or Act 15 38 1
CMMC Level 3 Best Practice Guideline 15 2 2
hipaa security rule Regulation or Statute 15 2 0
SSAE 18 Safe Harbor 15 6 3
23 NYCRR 500 Regulation or Statute 13 8 2
Control Baselines for Information Systems and Organizations, NIST Special Publication 800-53B, Moderate Impact Baseline, October 2020 International or National Standard 13 1 0
ISO 31000 R 2009 International or National Standard 13 159 1
NIST Privacy Framework International or National Standard 13 8 1
SSAE No. 16 Reporting on Controls at a Service Organization SOC-1 Safe Harbor 13 9 3
CSIS 20 Critical Security Controls Best Practice Guideline 12 152 0
CMMC Level 1 Best Practice Guideline 11 2 2
CMMC Level 2 Best Practice Guideline 11 2 2
CMMC Level 5 Best Practice Guideline 11 2 0
COBIT 2019 Safe Harbor 11 4 1
Control Baselines for Information Systems and Organizations, NIST Special Publication 800-53B, High Impact Baseline, October 2020 International or National Standard 11 1 2
FFIEC IT Examination Handbook Audit Guideline 11 11 2
ISO/IEC 27018:2014 International or National Standard 11 14 2
ISO/IEC 27701:2019 International or National Standard 11 10 3
PCI DSS 3.0 Requirements Self-Regulatory Body Requirement 11 87 1
PCI DSS 3.2 SAQ D Merchant Contractual Obligation 11 4 0
TSP Section 100: 2017 Trust Services Criteria for Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, and Privacy Self-Regulatory Body Requirement 11 3 1
California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 Bill or Act 10 1 1
CIS 20 Critical Security Controls Best Practice Guideline 10 23 2
HIPAA Electronic Health Record Technology Regulation or Statute 10 3 5
NIST CSF 1.0 International or National Standard 10 11 2
NIST SP 800 66 Safe Harbor 10 24 1
PCI DSS Testing Procedures v3.2 Contractual Obligation 10 19 2
PCI SAQ A v3.2 Contractual Obligation 10 2 2
NIST 800-53A International or National Standard 9 7 2
NIST SP 800-171 International or National Standard 9 2 1
Sarbanes Oxley SOX, Deprecated Regulation or Statute 9 144 1
21 CFR Part 11 Regulation or Statute 8 24 0
BSI Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalogue (C5) Best Practice Guideline 8 8 0