Annex A 5.24
Information security incident management planning and preparation
The organisation plans and prepares for incident management, with defined processes, roles and responsibilities.
What an assessor looks for
Show the plan, the named roles, and evidence of preparation such as an exercise. A plan never tested against a scenario is a document rather than a capability.
Where it usually fails
The plan names roles that no longer exist and has never been exercised.
Classification
- Theme
- A.5 Organisational
- Control type
- Corrective
- Security properties
- Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
- Cybersecurity concepts
- Respond
- ISO 27001:2013 equivalent
- 16.1.1
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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