Annex A 5.23
New in 2022Information security for use of cloud services
Acquisition, use, management and exit of cloud services are governed by defined security requirements.
What an assessor looks for
New in 2022. The exit half is where organisations are least prepared: show how you would retrieve your data and terminate a service, and what the provider is contractually obliged to do.
Where it usually fails
Cloud services are well configured and no exit plan exists, so the organisation cannot describe how it would leave.
Classification
- Theme
- A.5 Organisational
- Control type
- Preventive
- Security properties
- Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
- Cybersecurity concepts
- Identify, 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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