ISO 27002:2022 5.31: Legal, statutory, regulatory and contractual requirements
The organization is to identify, record and keep current the requirements (legal, statutory, regulatory and contractual) bearing on information security, together with how it intends to meet them. Purpose: comply with the legal, regulatory and contractual obligations that concern information security. Guidance: external requirements are to be considered when writing security policies and procedures, when designing, implementing or changing controls, when classifying information and assets to set internal or supplier requirements, in risk assessment and treatment, in defining security processes, roles and responsibilities, and in setting contractual requirements for suppliers and the scope of what they supply. On legislation and regulation, the organization should identify all laws and regulations relevant to its security for its type of business; account for every relevant country where it operates, where products and services it uses come from, or where information crosses borders; review the list regularly to catch changes and new laws; and define and record the processes and individual responsibilities for meeting them. Cryptography often carries specific legal rules, so consider restrictions on importing or exporting hardware and software that perform, or are designed to have added, cryptographic functions; restrictions on using cryptography; mandatory or discretionary access by national authorities to encrypted information; and whether digital signatures, seals and certificates are legally valid; legal advice is recommended, especially when encrypted information or tools move across borders. Contractual security requirements include those in client contracts, supplier contracts (5.20) and insurance contracts.
This control maps to 117 controls across 36 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-CSF-GV.OC-01 The organizational mission is understood and informs cybersecurity risk management
NIST-CSF-GV.OC-03 Legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements regarding cybersecurity - including privacy and civil liberties obligations - are understood and managed
You are reading one control. How much of ISO 27002:2022 have you already done?
ISO 27002:2022 5.31 is one control. If you already hold one of the frameworks below, a reviewed crosswalk already says how much of ISO 27002:2022 your existing evidence covers. Hold NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 and 79 of 93 ISO 27002:2022 controls already carry evidence.
Each report names every control your existing framework evidences, every one it does not, the reasoning behind each claim, and the claims that were argued against and rejected. 180 were rejected on the NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 pair alone.