Annex A 7.6
Working in secure areas
Security measures for working in secure areas are designed and applied.
What an assessor looks for
Show the rules for those areas, including restrictions on recording devices and on unsupervised third-party work.
Where it usually fails
Rules exist for staff and are not applied to maintenance contractors working unaccompanied.
Classification
- Theme
- A.7 Physical
- Control type
- Preventive
- Security properties
- Confidentiality, Integrity
- Cybersecurity concepts
- Protect
- ISO 27001:2013 equivalent
- 11.1.5
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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