Annex A 5.32
Intellectual property rights
Procedures protect intellectual property rights, including licensing compliance.
What an assessor looks for
Cover software licensing and open-source obligations. Expect increasing attention to the provenance of AI-generated content and code.
Where it usually fails
Commercial licensing is tracked while open-source components carrying obligations are not inventoried at all.
Classification
- Theme
- A.5 Organisational
- Control type
- Preventive
- Security properties
- Confidentiality, Integrity
- Cybersecurity concepts
- Protect
- ISO 27001:2013 equivalent
- 18.1.2
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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