How do you build one control library that answers several regulations at once?
One control library can answer several regulations when it is built against your own risk taxonomy first and mapped outward to each regulation's specific requirements, rather than built one control set per regulation and reconciled afterwards. The mapping is the connective layer. The controls themselves stay singular. If a control such as access review exists more than once under different names or owners, that is the actual finding, not a naming inconsistency.
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Maximilian Bazzi, Founder and CEOWhy one library instead of one per regulation
Most organisations facing several regulations end up with several control libraries, one built for each compliance deadline, because each was commissioned separately and under time pressure. The result is the same control, such as access review or vendor due diligence, existing three or four times with slightly different wording and slightly different owners. A single control library, mapped to each regulation rather than duplicated for each one, removes that drift by design.
What the mapping actually looks like
Each control in the library carries metadata linking it to every regulation it satisfies, in whole or in part: FINMA Circular 2023/1, DORA, NIS2, or a customer contractual requirement. A control owner sees one control to operate. A compliance or audit function sees, for any given regulation, which controls in the single library answer it and to what extent. Gaps become visible as gaps in the mapping, not as an entirely separate compliance project.
Where teams commonly run into difficulty
The difficulty is usually organisational rather than technical: the teams responsible for different regulations are often different teams, with different reporting lines and different deadlines, and none of them owns the control library as a shared asset. Without a named owner for the library itself, each new regulation quietly reverts to its own control set.
How Bazzi Consulting helps
We design the control library once, against your own taxonomy, then map it to every regulation you are in scope of, so the underlying work is done a single time. See risk and resilience advisory.