Annex A 5.6
Contact with special interest groups
The organisation maintains contact with security forums and professional bodies so it learns of threats and practice from outside itself.
What an assessor looks for
Memberships, advisory feeds subscribed to, and any evidence that something learned externally changed something internally. The last point is what separates this from a list of newsletters.
Where it usually fails
Subscriptions exist but nothing demonstrates that external information ever reached a decision.
Classification
- Theme
- A.5 Organisational
- Control type
- Preventive
- Security properties
- Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
- Cybersecurity concepts
- Identify
- ISO 27001:2013 equivalent
- 6.1.4
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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