Annex A 7.9
Security of assets off-premises
Assets used away from the organisation's premises are protected.
What an assessor looks for
Cover home working equipment, devices in transit and anything held at a third-party site. Encryption status of portable devices is routinely tested.
Where it usually fails
Off-premises assets are not tracked, so the organisation cannot say what is off site or with whom.
Classification
- Theme
- A.7 Physical
- Control type
- Preventive
- Security properties
- Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
- Cybersecurity concepts
- Protect
- ISO 27001:2013 equivalent
- 11.2.6
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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