ISO 27001:2022
Clause 4 – ISO 27001:2022

ISO 27001:2022 clause-4.1: Understanding the organization and its context

The organization has to identify the internal and external issues that bear on its purpose and that influence whether its ISMS can deliver the outcomes intended for it. The note links this to establishing external and internal context in ISO 31000:2018, 5.4.1. Amendment 1:2024 adds that the organization must decide whether climate change is a relevant issue (the amendment text is held only as the verbatim quotation in the NQA implementation guide).

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  • APO02.01 APO02.01 Understand enterprise context and direction

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