Annex A 8.27
Secure system architecture and engineering principles
Principles for engineering secure systems are established, documented, maintained and applied.
What an assessor looks for
Show the principles and a design that demonstrably applied them. Principles nobody references during design are not operating.
Where it usually fails
Principles are documented and no architecture decision record references them.
Classification
- Theme
- A.8 Technological
- Control type
- Preventive
- Security properties
- Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
- Cybersecurity concepts
- Protect
- ISO 27001:2013 equivalent
- 14.2.5
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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