Annex A 5.11
Return of assets
Assets are returned when employment or a contract ends.
What an assessor looks for
Trace a recent leaver end to end: what they held, what came back, and what was done about anything that did not. The exception path is what gets tested.
Where it usually fails
Hardware is recovered but accounts, tokens and data held on personal devices are not addressed.
Classification
- Theme
- A.5 Organisational
- Control type
- Preventive
- Security properties
- Confidentiality, Availability
- Cybersecurity concepts
- Protect
- ISO 27001:2013 equivalent
- 8.1.4
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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