The Complete 2025 Law 25 Checklist: Are You Actually Ready?

How to build one compliance system that actually works, not three broken ones.

Almost every growing company reaches a point where clients suddenly start asking for different certifications. One customer wants SOC 2, another enterprise partner asks for ISO 27001, and now some government related deal is telling you to follow NIST also.

So what happens next? Panic. Teams start creating 3 different compliance programs, separate folders, more consultants, more tools and somehow still missing deadlines.

But the truth is very simple. SOC 2, ISO 27001 and NIST are not three different security worlds. They all talk about the same things, just in different words. Once you understand this, you can build one system and satisfy all of them together.

Why Control Mapping Is So Important

❌ The Old Way

Build policies for SOC 2
Then again build new ones for ISO
Then again try to match NIST

Result: 3x work, 3x cost, audit stress.

✅ The New Way

Control mapping flips the whole approach. You don’t build for frameworks, you build for real security controls.

Result: Design once, pass all audits many times.

What Each Framework Really Cares About

SOC 2

Focus: Trust.
Can customers trust your systems? Focuses heavily on availability and data handling.

ISO 27001

Focus: Governance.
Is management involved? Are risks formally managed? It loves documentation.

NIST

Focus: Technical Depth.
How strong is your actual security program? Very prescriptive on specific controls.

Different angle, same building blocks.

High Level Control Mapping

Area	SOC 2	ISO 27001	NIST
Governance	CC1, CC3	Clause 5–6	ID.GV
Access Control	CC6	Annex A.9	AC family
Monitoring	CC7	Annex A.12	AU family
Change Mgmt	CC8	Annex A.14	CM family
Incident Resp	CC7.4	Annex A.16	IR family
Vendor Risk	CC9	Annex A.15	SR family
BCP & DR	CC10	Annex A.17	CP family

The 7 Core Control Areas (Deep Dive)

All three frameworks talk around the same 7 areas. Design these once, pass all audits many times.

1. Governance & Risk Management +

This is about leadership taking security seriously.

SOC 2 wants board involvement.
ISO wants formal ISMS.
NIST wants governance structure.

🛠 One Control Design

Maintain risk register
Assign owner to each risk
Review risks every quarter

📂 Evidence You Collect

Risk assessment files
Meeting minutes
ISMS documentation

2. Access Control +

This is simple. Only right people get right access.

SOC checks logical access.
ISO checks joiner and leaver process.
NIST goes deep into account management.

🛠 One Control Design

SSO with MFA
Auto remove access when employee leaves
Quarterly access review

📂 Evidence You Collect

User logs
MFA screenshots
Termination records

3. Monitoring & Logging +

You must know when something bad is happening.

SOC wants anomaly detection.
ISO wants event logging.
NIST wants detailed audit logs.

🛠 One Control Design

SIEM tool connected
Alerts auto created
Logs stored minimum 1 year

📂 Evidence You Collect

SIEM screenshots
Alert tickets
Log retention policy

4. Change Management +

Nothing should go live without approval.

SOC wants documentation.
ISO wants secure SDLC.
NIST wants config control.

🛠 One Control Design

All code through PR
Approval before deployment
Change history saved

📂 Evidence You Collect

Pull requests
Deployment logs
Change tickets

5. Incident Response +

Breaches will happen, how you respond is what matters.

SOC checks response plans.
ISO needs formal incident process.
NIST defines phases in detail.

🛠 One Control Design

Incident classification levels
Breach communication template
Post incident review

📂 Evidence You Collect

Incident reports
Tabletop exercise
Response logs

6. Vendor Risk Management +

Your vendors can destroy your security in one click.

SOC wants vendor checks.
ISO wants supplier controls.
NIST focuses on supply chain risk.

🛠 One Control Design

Vendor scoring system
Security clauses in contracts
Yearly reassessment

📂 Evidence You Collect

Vendor questionnaires
Contracts
Risk scoring sheets

7. Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery +

Your business must survive outage, otherwise all controls useless.

SOC checks DR readiness.
ISO wants BCP.
NIST enforces contingency planning.

🛠 One Control Design

Backup every day
DR testing twice year
Defined RTO and RPO

📂 Evidence You Collect

Backup logs
DR test reports
BCP documents

⚡ One System Instead of Three

Here is the real trick to efficient compliance:

1. Build control once
Don’t duplicate work.

2. Map it everywhere
Link it to all frameworks.

3. Automate evidence
Stop manual screenshots.

4. Stay audit ready
Always be prepared.

Continuous Compliance Model

Old style compliance is like studying one night before exam. Mapped compliance is like studying everyday little bit.

🚫 The Old Way

Once per year
Manual screenshots
Audit stress
High cost (>$100k globally or $1L in India)

✅ The New Way

Everyday
Auto logs
Always ready
Low cost (< 1/3 of manual)

Manual compliance for all 3 can easily cross $1 lakh per year in India or $100k globally. Mapped automation model usually stays under one third of that.

Final Thoughts

SOC 2, ISO 27001 and NIST are not your enemies. They are just different languages describing same security reality. Once you start mapping controls instead of chasing certificates, compliance becomes easy, predictable and almost boring.

And boring compliance is the best kind of compliance.

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The Complete 2025 Law 25 Checklist: Are You Actually Ready?

Why Control Mapping Is So Important

❌ The Old Way

✅ The New Way

What Each Framework Really Cares About

SOC 2

ISO 27001

NIST

High Level Control Mapping

The 7 Core Control Areas (Deep Dive)

🛠 One Control Design

📂 Evidence You Collect

🛠 One Control Design

📂 Evidence You Collect

🛠 One Control Design

📂 Evidence You Collect

🛠 One Control Design

📂 Evidence You Collect

🛠 One Control Design

📂 Evidence You Collect

🛠 One Control Design

📂 Evidence You Collect

🛠 One Control Design

📂 Evidence You Collect

⚡ One System Instead of Three

Continuous Compliance Model

🚫 The Old Way

✅ The New Way

Final Thoughts

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