ISO27001 Clause 6 Certification Guide | Planning

What is ISO27001 Clause 6 Planning?

 The ISO27001 standard requires an organisation to establish and maintain information security risk assessment processes that include the risk acceptance and assessment criteria.

It requires that the organisation implements and manages risk treatment.

As part of planning it also requires the organisation to set out the information security objectives and have a plan in place to meet those objectives.

ISO27001 Clause 6 Definition

This ISO27001 Standard defines clause 6 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; and

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.

ISO27001 Clause 6

ISO27001 6.1.2 Information Security Risk Assessment Requirement

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The organisation shall define and apply an information security risk assessment process that:
a) establishes and maintains information security risk criteria that include:
1) the risk acceptance criteria; and
2) criteria for performing information security risk assessments;
b) ensures that repeated information security risk assessments produce consistent, valid and comparable results;
c) identifies the information security risks:
1) apply the information security risk assessment process to identify risks associated with the loss of confidentiality, integrity and availability for information within the scope of the information security management system; and
2) identify the risk owners;
d) analyses the information security risks:
1) assess the potential consequences that would result if the risks identified in 6.1.2c) 1) were to materialise;
2) assess the realistic likelihood of the occurrence of the risks identified in 6.1.2 c) 1); and
3) determine the levels of risk;
e) evaluates the information security risks:
1) compare the results of risk analysis with the risk criteria established in 6.1.2 a); and
2) prioritise the analysed risks for risk treatment.

ISO27001 6.1.3 Information Security Risk Treatment

The organisation shall define and apply an information security risk treatment process to:

Read the ISO27001 ISO 2001 6.1.3 Information Security Risk Treatment Guide

a) select appropriate information security risk treatment options, taking account of the risk assessment results;
b) determine all controls that are necessary to implement the information security risk treatment option(s) chosen;
c) compare the controls determined in 6.1.3 b) above with those in Annex A and verify that no necessary controls have been omitted;
d) produce a Statement of Applicability that contains the necessary controls and justification for inclusions, whether they are implemented or not, and the justification for exclusions of controls from Annex A;
e) formulate an information security risk treatment plan; and
f ) obtain risk owners’ approval of the information security risk treatment plan and acceptance of the residual information security risks.

ISO27001 6.2 Information Security Objectives and Planning To Achieve Them Requirement

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The organisation shall establish information security objectives at relevant functions and levels. The information security objectives shall:
a) be consistent with the information security policy;
b) be measurable (if practicable);
c) take into account applicable information security requirements, and risk assessment and risk treatment results;
d) be communicated; and
e) be updated as appropriate.
When planning how to achieve its information security objectives, the organisation shall determine;

f ) what will be done;
g) what resources will be required;
h) who will be responsible;
i) when it will be completed; and
j) how the results will be evaluated.

ISO27001 Clause 6 FAQ

Reference

ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management