Annex A 8.16
New in 2022Monitoring activities
Networks, systems and applications are monitored for anomalous behaviour and appropriate action taken to evaluate potential incidents.
What an assessor looks for
New in 2022, and distinct from logging: this is about actively looking. Show what is monitored, the baseline for normal, who watches, and what happened to recent alerts.
Where it usually fails
Logs are collected into a platform that nobody reviews, so collection is presented as monitoring.
Classification
- Theme
- A.8 Technological
- Control type
- Detective
- Security properties
- Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
- Cybersecurity concepts
- Detect
- ISO 27001:2013 equivalent
- None. Introduced in the 2022 revision.
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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