Annex A 5.14
Information transfer
Rules and agreements govern transfers of information inside the organisation and to external parties.
What an assessor looks for
Cover every channel in use: electronic, physical and verbal. Expect questions about how sensitive information reaches third parties in practice, not only about the approved mechanism.
Where it usually fails
An approved secure transfer method exists alongside widespread informal use of consumer file sharing that nobody has addressed.
Classification
- Theme
- A.5 Organisational
- Control type
- Preventive
- Security properties
- Confidentiality, Integrity
- Cybersecurity concepts
- Protect
- ISO 27001:2013 equivalent
- 13.2.1, 13.2.2, 13.2.3
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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