Annex A 8.9
New in 2022Configuration management
Configurations of hardware, software, services and networks are established, documented, implemented, monitored and reviewed.
What an assessor looks for
New in 2022. Show baselines, how systems are built to them, and how drift is detected. Manual builds without a baseline are the usual gap.
Where it usually fails
Baselines are documented and no mechanism exists to detect systems that have drifted away from them.
Classification
- Theme
- A.8 Technological
- Control type
- Preventive
- Security properties
- Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
- Cybersecurity concepts
- Protect
- ISO 27001:2013 equivalent
- None. Introduced in the 2022 revision.
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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