Documents and Records Required for an ISO/IEC 27001 Management System

Here is a list of the ISO/IEC 27001 mandatory documents and records, as well as commonly used non-mandatory documents.

Mandatory Documents Required
by ISO/IEC 27001:2022

Here are the documents you need to produce if you want to be compliant with ISO/IEC 27001:

  • Scope of the ISMS (Clause 4.3)
  • Information security policy and objectives (Clauses 5.2 and 6.2)
  • Risk assessment and risk treatment methodology (Clause 6.1.2)
  • Statement of Applicability (Clause 6.1.3 d)
  • Risk treatment plan (Clauses 6.1.3 e, 6.2, and 8.3)
  • Risk assessment report (Clauses 8.2 and 8.3)

Annex A Documents (mandatory only if there are risks which would require their implementation):

  • Definition of security roles and responsibilities (Clauses A.7.1.2 and A.13.2.4)
  • Inventory of assets (Clause A.8.1.1)
  • Acceptable use of assets (Clause A.8.1.3)
  • Access control policy (Clause A.9.1.1) 
  • Operating procedures for IT management (Clause A.12.1.1)
  • Secure system engineering principles (Clause A.14.2.5)
  • Supplier security policy (Clause A.15.1.1)
  • Incident management procedure (Clause A.16.1.5)
  • Business continuity procedures (Clause A.17.1.2)
  • Statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements (Clause A.18.1.1)

Mandatory Records Required
by ISO/IEC 27001:2022

  • Records of training, skills, experience and qualifications (Clause 7.2)
  • Monitoring and measurement results (Clause 9.1)
  • Internal audit program (Clause 9.2)
  • Results of internal audits (Clause 9.2)
  • Results of the management review (Clause 9.3)
  • Results of corrective actions (Clause 10.1)

Annex A Records

  • Logs of user activities, exceptions, and security events (Clauses A.12.4.1 and A.12.4.3)

Non-Mandatory ISO/IEC 27001 Documents (but commonly used)

  • Procedure for document control (Clause 7.5)
  • Controls for managing records (Clause 7.5)
  • Procedure for internal audit (Clause 9.2)
  • Procedure for corrective action (Clause 10.1)
  • Bring your own device (BYOD) policy (Clause A6.2.1)
  • Mobile device and teleworking policy (Clause A6.2.1)
  • Information classification policy (Clause A8.2)
  • User Access Rights Policies including Password control (Clause A9.2)
  • Disposal and destruction policy (Clause A.8.3.2 and Clause A.11.2.7)
  • Procedures for working in secure areas (Clause A.11.1.5)
  • Clear desk and clear screen policy (Clause A.11.2.9)
  • Organizational Change management policy (Clause A.12.1.2)
  • Software Change management policy (Clause A.14.2.4)
  • Backup policy (Clause A.12.3.1)
  • Information transfer policy (Clause A.13.2)
  • Business impact analysis (Clause A.17.1.1)
  • ISMS Continuity controls testing plan (Clause A.17.1.3)

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