Annex A 5.36
Compliance with policies, rules and standards for information security
Compliance with the organisation's own security policies and standards is regularly reviewed.
What an assessor looks for
Show the checks performed, what they found, and what was done about the exceptions. A review reporting full compliance every time invites scrutiny of its method.
Where it usually fails
Compliance checking is performed only ahead of the certification audit rather than at the stated interval.
Classification
- Theme
- A.5 Organisational
- Control type
- Detective
- Security properties
- Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
- Cybersecurity concepts
- Detect, Identify
- ISO 27001:2013 equivalent
- 18.2.2, 18.2.3
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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