Annex A 7.5
Protecting against physical and environmental threats
Protection is designed against physical and environmental threats such as fire, flood and natural hazards.
What an assessor looks for
Show which threats you assessed as relevant to each location and what protection follows. Flood risk for ground floor and basement facilities is regularly overlooked.
Where it usually fails
Fire protection is addressed while other locally relevant hazards were never assessed.
Classification
- Theme
- A.7 Physical
- Control type
- Preventive
- Security properties
- Availability, Integrity
- Cybersecurity concepts
- Protect
- ISO 27001:2013 equivalent
- 11.1.4
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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