ISO 27001:2022
Technological controls – ISO 27001:2022

ISO 27001:2022 8.34: Protection of information systems during audit testing 

Audit tests and other assurance activities that assess operational systems need a plan agreed in advance by whoever tests and the relevant managers. Purpose (stated in ISO/IEC 27002:2022): keeps the disruption audits and assurance work cause to live systems and business processes small. As an Annex A reference control, it is compared with the controls determined in risk treatment (6.1.3 c) and recorded in the Statement of Applicability as included or excluded, with the justification and implementation status (6.1.3 d); implementation guidance is ISO/IEC 27002:2022 8.34.

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This control maps to 24 controls across 20 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

CMMC 2.0 · 2 controls

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · 2 controls

  • 53A-3.2.6 Finalize the Assessment Plan and Obtain Approval
  • 53A-D Penetration Testing

PCI DSS 4.0 · 2 controls

  • 11.4.1 11.4.1 Penetration testing methodology defined and implemented
  • 11.4.7 11.4.7 Multi-tenant providers support customer penetration testing

C5 (Germany) · 1 control

  • C5-COM-02 Policy for planning and conducting audits

CIS Controls v8 · 1 control

  • CIS-18.1 Establish and Maintain a Penetration Testing Program

DORA · 1 control

  • DORA-Art.26 Advanced testing of ICT tools, systems and processes based on TLPT

EU AI Act · 1 control

FedRAMP High · 1 control

  • CA-2 Control Assessments

FedRAMP Moderate · 1 control

  • CA-2 Control Assessments

ISO 27001:2013 · 1 control

  • A.12.7.1 Information systems audit controls

ISO 27002:2022 · 1 control

  • 8.34 Protection of information systems during audit testing

ISO 27701:2019 · 1 control

  • 6.9.7 Information systems audit considerations

NIS2 Directive · 1 control

  • Art.32 Cooperate with supervision: inspections, security audits, scans and requests for information and evidence

SOC 2 · 1 control

  • SOC2-CC8.1 CC8.1 Managing changes to procedures, software, data and infrastructure

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