Annex A 5.18
Access rights
Access rights are provisioned, reviewed, modified and removed in line with policy.
What an assessor looks for
The review is the tested part. Show who performed the last review, what they changed as a result, and how quickly access was removed for a sample leaver.
Where it usually fails
An access review is completed and approves everything unchanged, which suggests the reviewer lacked the context to challenge anything.
Classification
- Theme
- A.5 Organisational
- Control type
- Preventive, Detective
- Security properties
- Confidentiality, Integrity
- Cybersecurity concepts
- Protect, Detect
- ISO 27001:2013 equivalent
- 9.2.2, 9.2.5, 9.2.6
Control number and title are identifiers used as references. The classification above is our own analysis, aligned to the shape of the ISO 27002 attribute model rather than reproduced from it, and no text from the standard appears on this page. Last reviewed 2026-08-03.
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