What is the Secure Controls Framework (SCF), and why is it called a "meta-framework"?

The SCF is a free "framework of frameworks" — a catalog of cybersecurity and data-privacy controls that maps to and consolidates dozens of standards and regulations at once.

* The SCF as a framework-of-frameworks: adopt its controls once and inherit coverage of ISO, NIST, DORA, CIS, PCI, GDPR, COBIT, CMMC. *

The word control means the power to influence behaviors and the course of events. The SCF gives organizations a set of secure practices that are designed, implemented and managed in an overall and sustainable manner. Because it is built to align with many standards simultaneously (ISO, NIST, COBIT, ENISA, CIS, PCI, CMMC, HIPAA, GDPR, etc.), it is a meta-framework — instead of mapping to one standard, you adopt SCF controls once and inherit coverage of "minimal" to "robust" breadth and depth across many. It is freely downloadable.

Go deeper:

• Secure Controls Framework — offizielle Website — Kostenloses Framework-of-frameworks: 1.400+ Controls in 33 Domänen, gemappt auf 200+ Standards.