ISO 27002:2022
Organizational controls – ISO 27002:2022

ISO 27002:2022 5.11: Return of assets

When their employment, contract or agreement changes or ends, staff and, where relevant, other interested parties are to hand back every organizational asset they hold. Purpose: protect the organization's assets during the change or termination process. Guidance: the change or exit process should formally include recovery of all physical and electronic assets issued to the person, whether the organization owns them or holds them in trust. Where people buy organizational equipment or used their own devices, procedures should make sure relevant information is traced, moved to the organization and securely wiped from the device (7.14). Knowledge held by the person that matters for ongoing operations should be documented and handed over. During the notice period and afterwards the organization should stop people who are leaving from copying relevant information, such as intellectual property, without authorization. The assets to be returned should be identified and documented, and can include user endpoint devices, portable storage, specialist equipment, authentication hardware for systems, sites and archives (keys, tokens, smartcards) and paper copies of information. Other information: information on assets the organization does not own is hard to recover, so its use should be limited through other measures, for instance managing access rights (5.18) or cryptography (8.24).

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What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 25 controls across 19 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · 4 controls

C5 (Germany) · 2 controls

  • C5-AM-05 Commitment to Permissible Use, Safe Handling and Return of Assets
  • C5-HR-05 Responsibilities in the event of termination or change of employment

ISO 27701:2019 · 2 controls

  • 6.4.3 Termination and change of employment
  • 6.5.1 Responsibility for assets

PCI DSS 4.0 · 2 controls

  • 9.3.1.1 9.3.1.1 Personnel access to sensitive areas controlled
  • 9.3.3 9.3.3 Visitor badges returned or deactivated
  • ASD37-37 Personnel management (Very Good)

CIS Controls v8 · 1 control

  • CIS-6.2 Establish an Access Revoking Process

CMMC 2.0 · 1 control

FedRAMP High · 1 control

  • PS-4 Personnel Termination

FedRAMP Moderate · 1 control

  • PS-4 Personnel Termination

HIPAA Security Rule · 1 control

ISO 27001:2022 · 1 control

  • 5.11 Return of assets

MTCS (Singapore) · 1 control

  • 7.6 Asset returns

NIS2 Directive · 1 control

  • Art.21.2.i Human resources security, access control policies and asset management
  • 03.09.02 Personnel Termination and Transfer

SOC 2 · 1 control

  • SOC2-CC6.5 CC6.5 Protecting data on assets until disposal

Every mapping shown was judged rather than inferred from wording similarity, and the ones that failed review are published too. See the coverage reports and what was rejected.

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