Annex A 5.4
Management responsibilities
Management actively requires staff to apply security in the way the organisation has defined.
What an assessor looks for
Evidence is behavioural: objectives that mention security, management communications, and action taken when procedures were not followed. A signed policy alone does not demonstrate this control.
Where it usually fails
No record of management acting on a known deviation, which reads as tolerance rather than requirement.
Classification
- Theme
- A.5 Organisational
- Control type
- Preventive
- Security properties
- Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
- Cybersecurity concepts
- Protect
- ISO 27001:2013 equivalent
- 7.2.1
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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