Annex A 5.8
Information security in project management
Security requirements are considered within projects, whatever methodology the organisation uses.
What an assessor looks for
Pick a recent project and trace where security entered it. A gate, a requirement, a risk assessment, a review. If security appears only at go-live, this control is not operating.
Where it usually fails
The process describes a security gate that recent projects bypassed without an exception being recorded.
Classification
- Theme
- A.5 Organisational
- Control type
- Preventive
- Security properties
- Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
- Cybersecurity concepts
- Identify, Protect
- ISO 27001:2013 equivalent
- 6.1.5, 14.1.1
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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