In this article we lay bare ISO27001 Clause 6.1.2 Information Security Risk Assessment. Exposing the insider trade secrets, giving you the templates that will save you hours of your life and showing you exactly what you need to do to satisfy it for ISO27001 certification. We show you exactly what changed in the ISO27001:2022 update. I am Stuart Barker the ISO27001 Ninja and this is ISO27001 Clause 6.1.2
Table of contents
- What is ISO27001 Clause 6.1.2 Information Security Risk Assessment?
- What are the ISO27001:2022 Changes to Clause 6.1.2?
- Risk acceptance criteria
- Criteria for performing information security risk assessments
- Consistent Risk Assessment
- Risk Identification
- Identify Risk Owners
- Analyse the information security risks
- Evaluate the information security risks
- ISO27001 Clause 6.1.2 Templates
- ISO27001 Clause 6.1.2 FAQ
- Reference
What is ISO27001 Clause 6.1.2 Information Security Risk Assessment?
The ISO27001 standard requires an organisation to establish and maintain information security risk assessment processes that include the risk acceptance and assessment criteria.
This clause is all about risk assessment. The ISO27001 standard for ISO27001 certification wants you define and implement a risk assessment process.
That risk assessment process has to set out risk criteria which are the parameters of your risk management.
What are the ISO27001:2022 Changes to Clause 6.1.2?
There are no changes to ISO27001 Clause 6.1.2 in the 2022 update.
Risk acceptance criteria
You will set out what your risk acceptance criteria is. This is straightforward, and is a definition under what circumstances you will accept risks. This can also be very straightforward, and the easiest way is to implement risk scoring and set a particular score at which you will accept risk. Of course, you will also have the ability to override this structured approach to risk acceptance. Usually this is done by allowing the Management Review Team or the Senior Management Team to accept risks.
Criteria for performing information security risk assessments
The circumstances in which you perform a risk assessment will be defined and documented. You will perform a complete risk assessment at least annually or when significant change occurs. In addition, risk assessments will form part of your supplier onboarding process, your change management processes and potentially other areas of your business.
Consistent Risk Assessment
Under the standard you are to ‘ensure that repeated information security risk assessments produce consistent, valid and comparable results;’. This is straightforward to do by writing and documenting your risk management process, implementing a risk register and having consistent and effective risk scoring. By ensuring the process is in place and can be easily followed, with strict definitions and scoring the process will produce consistent results.
Risk Identification
Risk identification can often be confusing if you are not used to it. There is a usual approach to over complicate matters. This leads to a complicated risk framework with a risk register overpopulated with risks which can easily become unwieldy and unmanageable.
We must bear in mind that risk identification only applies to the in-scope products and services. The thing that we are going for ISO27001 certification for. There is a benefit to widen the risk management coverage, but the standard only applies to what is in scope.
In addition, we are only concerned for ISO27001 certification with risks associated with the loss of confidentiality, integrity and availability for information.
Identify Risk Owners
Risk owners must be identified. It is expected that risks are assigned to individuals and not to teams. This ensures accountability and true ownership. It is acceptable to assign risk ownership to roles rather than named individuals but assigning them to teams should be avoided.
Analyse the information security risks
Once identified and assigned to owners’ risks will be analysed.
- assess the potential consequences that would result if the risks identified in 6.1.2c) were to materialise
- assess the realistic likelihood of the occurrence of the risks identified in 6.1.2 c)
- determine the levels of risk
Evaluate the information security risks
Once we have the risks, we are going to analyse the information security risks to compare the results of risk analysis with the risk criteria established and prioritise the analysed risks for risk treatment.
ISO27001 Clause 6.1.2 Templates
ISO27001 templates are a great way to implement your information security management system. Whilst an ISO27001 toolkit can save you up to 30x in consulting fees and allow you to deliver up to 10x faster these individual templates help meet the specific requirements of ISO27001 clause 6.1.2.
ISO27001 Clause 6.1.2 FAQ
The ISO27001 standard requires an organisation to establish and maintain information security risk assessment processes that include the risk acceptance and assessment criteria.
You can download Clause 6.1.2 Information security risk assessment templates here: https://hightable.io/product/iso-27001-templates-toolkit/
An example of Clause 6.1.2 Information security risk assessment can be found here: https://hightable.io/product/iso-27001-templates-toolkit/
Yes. A complete guide to the ISO27001 Clause 6.1.2 risk register can be found here: https://hightable.io/risk-register/
A guide to the ISO27001 risk management policy used by ISO27001 Clause 6.1.2 is located here: https://hightable.io/risk-management-policy/
ISO27001 Certification Requirements
ISO27001 Certification Requirements set out clause by clause with these complete certification guides that include everything you need to know, what you need to do and ISO 27001 templates.
- ISO27001 Clause 4.1 Understanding The Organisation And Its Context
- ISO27001 Clause 4.2 Understanding The Needs And Expectations Of Interested Parties
- ISO27001 Clause 4.3 Determining The Scope Of The Information Security Management System
- ISO27001 Clause 4.4 Information Security Management System (ISMS)
- ISO27001 Clause 5.1 Leadership And Commitment
- ISO27001 Clause 5.2 Information Security Policy
- ISO27001 Clause 5.3 Organisational Roles, Responsibilities And Authorities
- ISO27001 Clause 6 Planning
- ISO27001 Clause 6.1.1 Planning General
- ISO27001 Clause 6.1.2 Information Security Risk Assessment
- ISO27001 Clause 6.1.3 Information Security Risk Treatment
- ISO27001 Clause 6.2 Information Security Objectives And Planning To Achieve Them
- ISO27001 Clause 7.1 Resources
- ISO27001 Clause 7.2 Competence
- ISO27001 Clause 7.3 Awareness
- ISO27001 Clause 7.4 Communication
- ISO27001 Clause 7.5.1 Documented Information
- ISO27001 Clause 7.5.2 Creating And Updating Documented Information
- ISO27001 Clause 7.5.3 Control Of Documented Information
- ISO27001 Clause 8.1 Operational Planning And Control
- ISO27001 Clause 8.2 Information Security Risk Assessment
- ISO27001 Clause 8.3 Information Security Risk Treatment
- ISO27001 Clause 9.1 Monitoring, Measurement, Analysis, Evaluation
- ISO27001 Clause 9.2 Internal Audit
- ISO27001 Clause 9.3 Management Reviews
- ISO27001 Clause 10.1 Continual Improvement
- ISO27001 Clause 10.2 Non Conformity and Corrective Action
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Reference
ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management
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