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Statement of Applicability

The Statement of Applicability is the mandatory ISO 27001 document listing which Annex A controls apply, which are excluded and why.

Also called SoA

It links control decisions to the risk assessment and is one of the first documents a certification auditor reads. It should be produced from the risk treatment decisions, not maintained as a separate spreadsheet that drifts.

See Annex A.

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Annex A
Annex A of ISO/IEC 27001:2022 is the reference list of 93 information security controls, grouped into organizational, people, physical and technological themes.
ISO 27001
ISO/IEC 27001 is the international standard for an information security management system, certified by an accredited body on a three-year cycle.
Information security management system
An information security management system is the set of policies, processes and responsibilities an organization uses to manage information security risk.

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