Annex A 5.7
New in 2022Threat intelligence
Information about threats is collected and analysed so that it informs the controls the organisation actually operates.
What an assessor looks for
New in 2022, and frequently misread as buying a feed. Show the sources, who reviews them, and at least one case where intelligence changed a control, a priority, or a risk rating.
Where it usually fails
A commercial feed is purchased and nobody can point to a decision it influenced, which demonstrates procurement rather than the control.
Classification
- Theme
- A.5 Organisational
- Control type
- Detective, Preventive
- Security properties
- Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
- Cybersecurity concepts
- Identify, 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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