How does SOC 2 relate to NIST CSF?

SOC 2 Trust Service Criteria and NIST CSF share conceptual overlap but are not directly equivalent. NIST CSF functions map roughly to TSC categories - NIST Identify aligns with CC3 (Risk Assessment); Protect and Detect align with CC6 and CC7; Recover aligns with CC8 and CC9. The SCF provides detailed cross-framework mappings between SOC 2 TSC categories and NIST CSF controls.