The Ultimate Certification Guide to ISO 27001:2022 Clause 6.1.1 Planning General

What is ISO 27001:2022 Clause 6.1.1 Planning General?

ISO 27001 Clause 6.1.1 comes under ISO 27001 Clause 6 and relates directly to planning. It is a relatively easy clause to satisfy with ISO 27001 templates. To implement ISO 27001 and go for ISO 27001 certification means that you must satisfy this requirement.

What are the ISO 27001:2022 Changes to Clause 6.1.1?

Brace yourself. The massive update was to remove the word ‘and’ from 6.1.1 b.

What is the requirement of ISO 27001 Clause 6.1.1?

This clause is about planning and you have to demonstrate a couple of things.

You will demonstrate, show and evidence that when you planned your information security management system that you took into account the issues in ISO 27001 Clause 4.1 Understanding the organisation and its context and the requirements that you identified in ISO 27001 Clause 4.2 Understanding the needs and expectations of interested parties.

In addition you are going to work out the risks and opportunities that will address the following points

• that your information security management system can achieve its intended outcome(s)
• that you can prevent, or reduce, undesired effects
• that we can achieve continual improvement

You are going to plan, document and evidence

• actions to address these risks and opportunities
• how to integrate and implement these actions into your information security management system processes
• how to evaluate the effectiveness of these actions

ISO 27001 Clause 6.1.1 Definition

The ISO 27001 Standard defines clause 6.1.1 as:

When planning for the information security management system, the organisation shall consider the issues referred to in 4.1 and the requirements referred to in 4.2 and determine the risks and opportunities that need to be addressed to:

a) ensure the information security management system can achieve its intended outcome(s);

b) prevent, or reduce, undesired effects

c) achieve continual improvement.

The organisation shall plan:

d) actions to address these risks and opportunities; and

e) how to

1) integrate and implement these actions into its information security management system processes; and

2) evaluate the effectiveness of these actions.

ISO 27001:2022 Clause 6.1.1 Planning General

ISO 27001 Clause 6.1.1 Implementation Guide 

There are a number of ways to meet the requirements of the ISO 27001 clause when going for ISO 27001 certification but an effective fast track is the use of ISO 27001 templates. The following ISO 27001 templates documents will meet the demands of ISO 27001 clause 6.1.1.

• Document: Risk Management Policy describes the risk management process. 

• Document: ISMS Risk Register captures, manages and reports risks. These are reported to and overseen by the Management Review Team. 

• Risk Management is part of the continual improvement policy and process, document: IS 15 Continual Improvement Policy

• Continual improvement is managed, tracked and reported using document: Incident and Corrective Action Log

How to comply with ISO 27001:2022 Clause 6.1.1 Planning

Reference

ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management