The document contains questions to assess an organization's compliance with clauses 4 through 7 of the ISO/IEC 27001:2022 standard for information security management systems. It addresses topics such as understanding the organization's context, leadership and commitment, developing security policies and objectives, risk assessment and treatment, allocating resources, ensuring competence, and raising security awareness. The questions are designed to help an organization gap its current practices against the requirements of the standard.
The document contains questions to assess an organization's compliance with clauses 4 through 7 of the ISO/IEC 27001:2022 standard for information security management systems. It addresses topics such as understanding the organization's context, leadership and commitment, developing security policies and objectives, risk assessment and treatment, allocating resources, ensuring competence, and raising security awareness. The questions are designed to help an organization gap its current practices against the requirements of the standard.
The document contains questions to assess an organization's compliance with clauses 4 through 7 of the ISO/IEC 27001:2022 standard for information security management systems. It addresses topics such as understanding the organization's context, leadership and commitment, developing security policies and objectives, risk assessment and treatment, allocating resources, ensuring competence, and raising security awareness. The questions are designed to help an organization gap its current practices against the requirements of the standard.
The document contains questions to assess an organization's compliance with clauses 4 through 7 of the ISO/IEC 27001:2022 standard for information security management systems. It addresses topics such as understanding the organization's context, leadership and commitment, developing security policies and objectives, risk assessment and treatment, allocating resources, ensuring competence, and raising security awareness. The questions are designed to help an organization gap its current practices against the requirements of the standard.
The document discusses the key clauses and sub-clauses of ISO 27001 standard and the questions that need to be answered for effective Information Security Management System.
The main clauses covered are Context of Organization, Leadership, Planning, Support, Operation and Performance Evaluation.
For each clause, the document lists down questions around understanding issues and requirements, defining policies, assessing and treating risks, ensuring competency and resources etc.
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27001:2022 Sub Clauses Gap Assessment Questionnaire Response
Clauses Have the internal and external issues that are relevant to the 4.1 - organization's ISMS determined Understanding Have impact and the risk associated to the issues organization and determined its context Have the remediation plan for issues documented Has the organization determined the interested parties that 4.2 - are relevant to the ISMS Understanding Has the organization determined the needs and 4 the needs and expectations of these interested parties expectations of Have the requirements of these interested parties been Context of interested parties determined, including legal, regulatory and contractual the requirements? organization Have the boundaries and applicability of the ISMS been determined to establish its scope, taking into consideration 4.3 - Determining the external and internal issues, the requirements of the scope of the interested parties and the interfaces and dependencies with information other organizations? security Has the organization defined the scope of ISMS including the management in scope departments, interfaces, dependences and the system locations Is ISMS scope been documented Is the organization’s leadership commitment to the ISMS demonstrated by establishing the information security policy and objectives, compatible with the strategic direction of the organization, and in promotion of continual improvement? Has the leadership ensured the integration of the ISMS requirements into its business processes? 5.1 - Leadership Has the leadership ensured resources are available for the and commitment ISMS, and directing and supporting individuals, including management, who contribute to its effectiveness? Has the leadership communicated the importance of effective information security and conformance to ISMS 5 requirements? Leadership Has the leadership directing and supporting relevant roles to contribute to the effectiveness of ISMS Is there an established information security policy that is appropriate to ISMS Does the information security policy gives a framework for 5.2 - Policy setting objectives, and demonstrates commitment for continual improvement of ISMS Is the policy documented and communicated to employees and relevant interested parties? Are the roles, responsibilities & authorities relevant to ISMS 5.3 - scope clearly defined and communicated? Organizational Is the Org Chart defined and inline with the defined roles and roles, responsibilities responsibilities Are the responsibilities and authorities for conformance and and authorities reporting on ISMS performance assigned? Have the internal and external issues, and the requirements of interested parties been considered to determine the risks and opportunities that need to be addressed to ensure that the ISMS achieves its outcome Have actions to address risks and opportunities been planned, and integrated into the ISMS processes, and are 6.1 - Actions to they evaluated for effectiveness? address risks and Has an information security risk assessment process that opportunities establishes the criteria for performing information security risk assessments, including risk acceptance criteria been defined? Is the information security risk assessment process repeatable and does it produce consistent, valid and comparable results? Does the information security risk assessment process identify risks associated with loss of confidentiality, integrity and availability for information within the scope of the ISMS, and are risk owners identified? Are information security risks analysed to assess the 6.1.2 - Information realistic likelihood and potential consequences that would security risk result, if they were to occur, and have the levels of risk been assessment determined? Are information security risks compared to the established risk criteria and prioritised? Is documented information about the information security Clause 6 risk assessment process available? Is there an information security risk treatment process to select appropriate risk treatment options for the results of the information security risk assessment, and are controls determined to implement the risk treatment option chosen? Have the controls determined, been compared with ISO/IEC 6.1.3 - Information 27001:2022 Annex A to verify that no necessary controls security risk have been missed? treatment Has a Statement of Applicability been produced to justify Annex A exclusions, and inclusions together with the control implementation status? Has the organization formulated an information security risk treatment plan and obtained the risk owners approval for residual risk acceptance Have measurable ISMS objectives and targets been established, documented and communicated throughout the organization? 6.2 - Information In setting its objectives, has the organization determined security what needs to be done, when and by whom? objectives and Is everyone within the organization’s control aware of the planning to importance of the information security policy, their achieve them contribution to the effectiveness of the ISMS and the implications of not conforming? Has the organization determined the need for internal and external communications relevant to the ISMS, including what to communicate, when, with whom, and who by, and the processes by which this is achieved? Has the organization determined the resources needed for 7.1 - Resources ISMS Has the organization determined the competency of the persons relevant to ISMS Has the organization taken corrective measures to acquire 7.2 - Competence the necessary competency of the persons relevant to ISMS Has the organization retained information as evidence for showcasing that the persons relevant to ISMS have necessary competency Has the organization defined and documented Information Security Awareness Plan Does the employees undergo security awareness sessions upon hire and on periodic basis Does the organization have a method to evaluate the 7.3 - Awareness effectiveness of the awareness training How does the organization ensures that the employees are aware about the information security policy Are the employees aware of the implications of not confirming to information security requirements Has the organization developed internal and external communication plan 7 7.4 - Does the communication plan include the details of what to Support Communication share, when to share, whom to share, how to share and with whom to share Has the organization determined the documented information necessary for the effectiveness of the ISMS? Is the documented information in the appropriate format, and has it been identified, reviewed and approved for suitability? Has the organization defined naming conventions including 7.5.1 - General (document tittle, date, author & approval) While creating and updating the documents does the 7.5.2 - Creating organization ensure the integrity of the documents by and updating capturing version numbers and appropriate approvals 7.5.3 - Control of Does the organization have a process to control the documented distribution of its documented information to ensure it is information only available for intended persons Does the organization protects the documented information from loss of confidentiality, integrity and availability Is the documented information properly stored and adequately preserved for its legibility Has the organization identified and documentation of external origin Does the organization has a programme to ensure that the ISMS achieves its outcomes, requirements and objectives 8.1 - Operational been developed and implemented? 8 planning and Is documented evidence retained to demonstrate that Operation control processes have been carried out as planned? Are changes planned and controlled, and unintended changes reviewed to mitigate any adverse results? How does the organization control outsourced processes/services relevant to ISMS Does the organization have documented information as an evidence to ensure that the processes are carried out and implemented as planned. Are information security risk assessments performed at planned intervals or when significant changes occur, and is 8.2 - Information documented information retained? security risk Does the organization retain relevant documented assessment information of the results of the information security risk assessments Has the information security risk treatment plan been 8.3 - Information implemented as per the information risk treatment plan security risk Does the organization retain relevant documented treatment information of the results of the information security risk treatment Is the information security performance and effectiveness of the ISMS evaluated? How does the organization determine the processes and controls that needs to be monitored and controlled How does the organization determine the methods for monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation of security processes and controls How does the organization ensure that the selected 9.1 - Monitoring, methods produce comparable, repeatable and reproducible measurement, results analysis and Has the organization determined the frequency for evaluation monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation of security processes and controls Has the organization determined when to analyze the results of monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation of security processes and controls 9 Has the organization determined what needs to be Performance monitored and measured, when, and by whom Is documented information retained as evidence of the evaluation results of monitoring and measurement? Does the organization plan, establish, implement and maintain an internal audit program Has the organization defined the frequency of internal audits Has the organization defined the objective and criteria for the internal audit Has the organization defined the frequency, methods, responsibilities and requirements for the audit program 9.2 - Internal Are internal audits conducted periodically to check that the audit ISMS is effective and conforms to both ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and the organization’s requirements? Does the audit program take into consideration of importance of the process during the audit Are the audits performed by competent personnel How does the organization ensure objectivity and impartiality of the audit Are the results of the internal audit reported to relevant management personnel Are results of audits reported to management, and is documented information about the audit programme and audit results retained? Does the review consider results from previous management reviews Does the Top Management review the effectiveness of ISMS at planned intervals Does the review consider changes to the internal and external issues Does the review consider changes to the needs and expectations of interested parties Does the review consider the non conformities and corrective actions Does the review consider monitoring and measurement results 9.3 - Management Does the review consider audit results review Does the review consider feedback from interested parties Does the review consider results of risk assessment and risk treatment Does the review consider opportunities for continual improvement Does the outputs of the review include decisions related to continual improvement and any needs for changes to ISMS Has the organization retained documented information as evidence for the results of management reviews Are the results of the management review documented, acted upon and communicated to interested parties as appropriate? 10.1 - Continual Does the organization continually improve the suitability, improvement adequacy and effectiveness of the ISMS What are the steps taken by the organization on the non conformities identified Does the organization takes actions to control and correct the non conformities 10 Does the organization identifies the root cause for the non 10.2 - conformity Improvement Nonconformity Does the organization take steps to eliminate the root cause and corrective Does the organization take steps to identify similar non action conformities within the organization. Does the Organization take steps to review the effectiveness of corrective actions taken' Is documented information retained as evidence of the nature of non-conformities, actions taken and the results?