Annex A 5.31
Legal, statutory, regulatory and contractual requirements
Applicable legal and contractual requirements are identified, documented and kept current.
What an assessor looks for
Produce the register and show the process that keeps it current. Emerging AI regulation is a live example of whether the process is working or the register is static.
Where it usually fails
The register lists long-standing obligations and has not been updated for anything enacted in the last two years.
Classification
- Theme
- A.5 Organisational
- Control type
- Preventive
- Security properties
- Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
- Cybersecurity concepts
- Identify
- ISO 27001:2013 equivalent
- 18.1.1, 18.1.5
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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