Auditing ISO 27001:2022 – Organizational Controls

Explain governance and directional oversight in ISO 27001 clause five, detailing policies, roles, segregation of duties, management responsibilities, and external interfaces with authorities and special interest groups.

Define, approve, publish, and communicate an information security policy aligned with business objectives and legal requirements; ensure top management authorization, regular review, accessibility, and continual improvement.

Define, document, and communicate information security roles and responsibilities to ensure accountability, enable segregation of duties, and support effective incident response within the information security management system.

Implement segregation of duties to prevent unauthorized or unintended actions and ensure accountability. Auditors verify policies, role-based access controls, IAM, and high-risk process separation in provisioning, procurement, and incident handling.

Top management actively supports and monitors the isms under control 5.4, embedding leadership accountability beyond policy to drive continuous improvement.

Establish and maintain proactive contacts with regulatory, law enforcement, and data protection authorities under ISO 27001:2022 to enable rapid breach notification, investigations, and regulatory reporting.

Audit control 5.6 requires authentic, documented engagement with relevant special interest groups to stay informed on emerging risks, best practices, and regulatory changes, improving information security posture through community intelligence.

Policy-driven security aligns information security with strategy by integrating threat intelligence into project lifecycles, maintaining asset inventories, and enforcing acceptable use through audit checklists.

Auditors verify a formal threat intelligence program, sourcing feeds from vendors, government or industry certs, I6, and internal events, and contextualize insights to inform risk management and proactive controls.

Integrate information security into all stages of project management across technical, organizational, and strategic initiatives, embedding risk assessments, security milestones, change control, and lessons learned into isms and PMO practices.

Identify and maintain a centralized inventory of information and assets, including hardware, software, data, services, documentation, cloud resources, and IoT devices, with clear ownership and lifecycle management.

Audit control 5.10 defines acceptable use of information and assets, requiring a documented acceptable use policy, training, enforcement, and alignment with ISO 27001:2022 controls to protect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Audit risk and change management by evaluating how organizations manage risk, control information flow, and govern access across assets, data classification, labeling, and information transfer.

Enforce prompt return and deactivation of all assets—physical and logical—during offboarding or role change, with automated deprovisioning, asset register updates, and IAM integration, including remote workers and third parties.

Classify information by sensitivity, value, legal requirements, and criticality to protect confidentiality, integrity, availability, and lifecycle. Establish a formal policy with levels public, internal, confidential, or restricted, and apply labels.

Implement secure information transfer by establishing documented policies governing internal and external transfers, specifying encryption, integrity validation, approved channels, and user responsibilities.

Understand ISO 27001 control 5.15 on formal access control policy, enforce least privilege and RBAC, manage onboarding and offboarding, MFA, logging, and periodic access reviews to reduce risk.

Align your organization's identity management with ISO 27001 control 5.16 by centralizing provisioning, deprovisioning, and lifecycle management across employees, contractors, and systems, enforcing MFA, and maintaining audit trails.

Protect authentication information across its lifecycle, including passwords, biometrics, tokens, certificates, and keys. Implement multi-factor authentication, strong password policies, encryption in transit and at rest, and secure recovery procedures.

Enforce control 5.18 by managing access rights through role-based or attribute-based access control, applying least privilege, and overseeing onboarding, role changes, deprovisioning, reviews, and privileged account monitoring with IAM tools.

The lecture outlines iso/iec 27001:2022 control 5.19, defining and maintaining supplier information security requirements in supplier relationships through contracts, with ongoing risk-based monitoring and cloud or saas shared responsibility.

Learn how control 5.20 requires explicit information security terms in supplier agreements, covering data protection, access controls, encryption, audits, and subcontractor responsibilities aligned with the ISMS.

Explore ISO 27001:2022 supplier management and third-party risks, from controls 5.21-5.23, covering monitoring, change control, and ICT supply chain security across IT service procurement.

Implement risk-based controls across the ICT supply chain, evaluating supplier security during onboarding, monitoring subcontractors, and auditing open source components.

Audit and monitor supplier performance to ensure ongoing compliance with information security requirements; establish KPIs, SLAs, dashboards, and periodic reviews, including subcontractor visibility and proactive risk management.

Discover how ISO 27001:2022 control 5.23 governs changes to supplier services, aligning cloud procurement with risk appetite and defining shared responsibilities to protect data across procurement to exit.

Develop incident preparedness and response under ISO 27001:2022 controls, preserving evidence and ensuring business continuity. Map legal and contractual requirements, protect privacy and intellectual property, and support independent audit reviews.

Proactively plan information security incident management under ISO/IEC 27001:2022, with detection, reporting, and investigation through escalation, containment, and breach notifications, supported by playbooks and training.

Understand ISO/IEC 27001:2022 control 5.25, which guides assessing detected information security events, applying criteria to escalate real incidents and ensure documented triage workflows.

Develop and test an incident response plan that contains, analyzes, and recovers from security incidents, with defined roles, escalation, logging, and legal compliance.

Organizations learn from security incidents through a structured post-incident review that identifies root causes, captures lessons learned, assigns corrective actions, and updates the ISMS for continuous improvement.

Learn how to collect, preserve, and protect digital evidence with a documented chain of custody, secure storage, and legal review to ensure admissibility in investigations.

Embed security in business continuity and disaster recovery plans to preserve confidentiality, integrity, and availability during disruptions, with encryption, access control, logging, and emergency access.

Identify critical ICT services via a business impact analysis, set RTOs and RPOs, and implement tested ICT continuity plans with backups, high availability, automated failover, and audit-ready evidence.

Maintain a formal compliance register mapping legal, statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements to affected systems. Embed these obligations into policies, internal controls, training, and audits to ensure accountability.

Ensure compliance with intellectual property rights by managing third-party licenses, safeguarding internal IP, and implementing open source, copyright, and trademark controls through policies and inventories.

Master ISO 27001:2022 control 5.33 by implementing a formal records management policy with retention schedules, access controls, encryption, secure backups, and tamper-evident audit trails for trustworthy, recoverable records.

Explore how to protect PII across its life cycle with a privacy policy, DPIAs, access controls, encryption, retention, and breach response to meet legal and contractual requirements.

Implement independent reviews of the information security management system (ISMS) at planned intervals or after significant changes, ensuring impartial assessment, documented evidence, corrective actions, and senior management oversight.

Assess and enforce internal security policies across operations with continuous monitoring and audits. Apply policy as code and use audits, logs, and dashboards to ensure compliant behavior.

Audit the governance backbone of an ISMS by examining the 37 organizational controls in ISO/IEC 27001:2022, applying evidence-based audits and corrective actions using the Infoshare Limited case.