Crosswalk pair
COPPA and NIST Cybersecurity Framework, control by control
8 canonical controls in Keel’s library satisfy clauses of both COPPA and NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Implement each once, attach the evidence once, and it counts toward each standard. The overlap is the work you don’t repeat.
The overlap
What the two libraries have in common
Every figure here counts canonical controls in Keel’s library, not clauses of either standard. Each standard’s own authored count is on its framework page.
8
Controls that satisfy both
Canonical controls that crosswalk to at least one clause of each.
19
In Keel’s library for COPPA
42% of them also map to NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
16
In Keel’s library for NIST Cybersecurity Framework
50% of them also map to COPPA.
36
Evidence artifacts expected
Across the shared controls, from Keel’s evidence guidance. Gathered once.
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COPPA 42%
8 controls of 19 in Keel’s library for COPPA also map to NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
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NIST Cybersecurity Framework 50%
8 controls of 16 in Keel’s library for NIST Cybersecurity Framework also map to COPPA.
The mapping
Controls that satisfy both
Each row is one control in Keel’s library and the clauses it answers on each side. Do the work once; both columns are then evidenced by the same artifacts.
| Canonical control | COPPA clauses | NIST Cybersecurity Framework clauses |
|---|---|---|
| Information security policy A board-approved policy set covering information security and the handling of personal data, sized to the scale of the organization and the type of activities it actually carries out, reviewed at least annually and communicated to the workforce. The policy set states the direction the organization is taking on information security - what it commits to, and what it requires of everyone doing work for it - so it sets where the programme is going rather than only recording what it already does. One or more named individuals are designated to coordinate the programme the policies describe - the person in charge of it, named rather than implied, with the designation recorded in writing, made known to the people who need it and kept current as roles change - so there is someone who answers for the policies being carried out and not only for their being published. How far the policies go, and how far the measures they require go, is judged against four things together: the organization’s size, complexity and capabilities; its technical infrastructure and the security capabilities of its hardware and software; what the measures cost; and how likely the risks they address are and how much damage they would do. A policy may be changed at any time, provided the change is documented and is actually put into effect rather than only written down. | 312.8(a), 312.8(b)(1) | GV.PO-01 |
| Access control policy Rules for granting, reviewing, and revoking access to systems and data based on business need and least privilege; anyone who works with sensitive data, or in a place from which it can be reached, is individually authorized for that work or supervised while doing it; and a documented emergency route exists to obtain the data when the normal access path is unavailable, with every use of that route recorded and reviewed afterwards. | 312.8(b)(3) | PR.AA-05 |
| Multi-factor authentication Documented procedures verify that a person or system seeking access to sensitive data is the one it claims to be, on every path by which that data can be reached - and multi-factor authentication is the enforced mechanism for remote access, administrative access, and access to sensitive systems and data. The multi-factor mechanism itself is configured so it cannot be bypassed, so the factors it uses are genuinely independent of one another - one factor’s success granting no knowledge of and no route around another - and so access is refused unless every factor required has succeeded. | 312.8(b)(3) | PR.AA-03 |
| Encryption in transit & at rest Strong cryptography protects sensitive data in transit over public networks and at rest in storage. | 312.8(b)(3) | PR.DS-01, PR.DS-02 |
| Logging & monitoring Security-relevant events - including successful and failed log-in attempts - are logged, protected, retained, and reviewed for anomalies, and the discrepancies that review finds are reported to the people who act on them. The review runs on a defined cadence and covers the records of system activity as a set - the audit logs, the reports of who accessed what, and the record of security incidents - rather than the log stream alone. | 312.8(b)(3) | DE.CM-09 |
| Vulnerability management Regular scanning, prioritization, and remediation of vulnerabilities across systems and applications, fed by current information about threats and weaknesses collected from outside the organization as well as from its own scans - vendor and industry security advisories for the software actually in use, and the threat feeds, bulletins and sector reporting that describe how systems like these are being attacked now - which is gathered continuously rather than at the next scan, evaluated for whether it applies here, and used to decide what is looked for and what is fixed first. | 312.8(b)(4) | ID.RA-01 |
| Incident response A documented, tested plan to detect, triage, contain, remediate, and communicate security incidents, and to mitigate - so far as is practicable - the harmful effect of a use or disclosure of personal data the organization knows breached its own policies or the law. Each incident is recorded together with its outcome - what happened, what was done about it and how it ended - as a record of that incident, which is a different artifact from the plan being documented. The mitigation duty runs to violations by the organization itself AND to violations by the processors, vendors and other parties handling that data on its behalf: the plan reaches an incident somebody else caused with the organization’s data, so learning of one triggers the same containment and remediation as an incident inside its own walls rather than a request that the other party deal with it. Where an incident carries a duty to tell someone outside the organization, the plan discharges it on the clock the applicable law sets rather than whenever the investigation happens to conclude: whether an incident is notifiable is decided against written criteria rather than argued after the fact, the regulator or supervisory authority is notified inside the deadline that regime states, the people whose data is affected are told where the risk to them warrants it, and where a deadline is missed the notification itself explains the delay instead of passing over it. | 312.8(a) | RS.MA-01 |
| Third-party / vendor risk management Due diligence, contractual safeguards, and ongoing monitoring of vendors that handle your data: the agreement obliges the vendor to comply in its own right with the security requirements that apply to it - an absolute standard, not a promise to match whatever you happen to do - to pass those obligations down to any subcontractor it brings in BY ENTERING INTO a contract or equivalent written arrangement with that subcontractor rather than by merely requiring equivalent practice of it, and to report to you, within a stated time, security incidents it becomes aware of and confirmed breaches of your data. Where a contract is not the instrument available, an equivalent written arrangement carrying the same obligations discharges the duty. The same obligations, together with the separation that keeps a related organization out of data it is not entitled to, are written into the governing document of any other arrangement that puts your data in the hands of a sponsor, parent, affiliate or plan. Diligence is not confined to security where the relationship warrants more: for suppliers significant enough to matter, the organization states the standards of conduct it expects of them - how they behave commercially and how they treat the environment around their operations - and screens candidates and incumbents against those stated expectations as part of the same selection and monitoring cycle, rather than accepting a signature on a code as evidence of it. | 312.8(c) | GV.SC-01 |
Beyond the pair
Where else this work counts
A framework is lit when a shared control above also maps to it. Unlit means none of them do — an absence, not a judgment about that standard.
Also reached by these 8 controls
- AI Governance Essentials
- Amazon Appstore Child-Directed Apps
- Apple App Store Kids Category
- CIS Critical Security Controls
- ESG Essentials
- EU AI Act
- GDPR
- Google Play Families
- HIPAA
- ISO 9001
- ISO/IEC 27001
- ISO/IEC 42001
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework
- NIST SP 800-171
- NIST SP 800-53
- PCI DSS
- SOC 2
- SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) Section 404
- US Employment Law - Federal Baseline
Nearby pairs
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework and ISO/IEC 27001 16 shared controls
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework and NIST SP 800-53 16 shared controls
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework and SOC 2 15 shared controls
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework and SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) Section 404 15 shared controls
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework and CIS Critical Security Controls 13 shared controls
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework and GDPR 13 shared controls
The thesis
Why this is one project, not two
On a crosswalk-native model, NIST Cybersecurity Framework mostly lights up controls you already built for COPPA. You’re not re-uploading the same screenshot for a second audit. You apply the framework and see the genuine delta worth working. That’s the whole idea behind collect once, comply everywhere.
Next step
Add NIST Cybersecurity Framework to the work you already did
Apply both frameworks in one workspace and see the overlap measured against the controls you already hold.