ISO 27001, with the Statement of Applicability generated
Clauses 4 to 10 and all 93 Annex A controls, adopted as a program with owners, evidence and applicability decisions attached to each one. The artifact your certification body opens first comes out of the live state rather than being maintained beside it.
- The Statement of Applicability, generated from live state
- All 93 Annex A controls, with owners and evidence
- Exclusions carry the justification an auditor will test
- A scoped certificate modelled as a target, not a caveat
ISO 27001
Organization-wide · 2022 · 92 controls
ISO 27001 coverage
- Published by
- ISO and IEC
- Structure
- Clauses 4–10, 93 Annex A controls
- Signed by
- An accredited certification body
- Cycle
- Three years, with surveillance audits
01
Adopt it, don't rebuild it
Adopt ISO 27001 once for the organization, and again for a product or a region when your certificate is scoped that way. Each program carries its own boundary, its own owners and its own readiness rather than sharing one number.
02
Evidence with a date on it
Annex A controls hold evidence with an owner and an expiry. A surveillance audit looks at the year rather than the week before it, so a review that lapses surfaces on the day it lapses.
03
What the assessor leaves with
The Statement of Applicability exports from the live program: every control, its applicability, its justification and its status. Your certification body reads the controls in place, scoped to the frameworks and dates you granted them.
What you adopt
ISO 27001, in its own numbering
- 4–10The management system
- A.5Organizational controls
- A.6People controls
- A.7Physical controls
- A.8Technological controls
37 organizational, 8 people, 14 physical and 34 technological controls, on top of the clauses that describe the ISMS itself.
What you show
What an assessor will ask to see
Risk assessment and treatment plan
Clauses 6.1.2 and 6.1.3. The method you used, the risks it produced, and what you decided to do about each one.
The Statement of Applicability
Clause 6.1.3 d). All 93 Annex A controls, in or out, each with a reason and a current status.
Management review
Clause 9.3. Minutes that cover the inputs the clause lists, on the interval you said you would hold them.
Internal audit
Clause 9.2. An audit programme, the audits it produced, and the findings closed out.
Corrective action
Clause 10.2. Nonconformities with a root cause, an action, and evidence the action worked.
Annex A evidence
Access reviews, supplier assessments, backups and restores, logging, onboarding and offboarding: the operational proof behind the controls you kept.
How it runs
Step 1
Adopt ISO 27001
Your organization gets its own copy of every control in ISO 27001, already mapped to the common controls you may satisfy for something else.
Step 2
Scope it
Organization-wide, or against a product, region or business line. Controls you scope out carry the reason you scoped them out.
Step 3
Collect the evidence
Connect a system or upload a document. Each piece is read, matched to the control it proves, dated, and given an expiry.
Step 4
Prove it
Invite your assessor to these frameworks and these dates, and nothing else. They leave with the Statement of Applicability, generated from the live program.
The standard
What ISO 27001 asks for
ISO 27001 certifies a management system rather than a product. Clauses 4 to 10 describe the ISMS itself (context, leadership, planning, support, operation, evaluation and improvement), and Annex A lists the 93 controls you select from to treat the risks you found.
The 2022 revision reorganised Annex A into four themes: 37 organizational controls, 8 people, 14 physical and 34 technological. Certification runs on a three-year cycle: a Stage 1 documentation review, a Stage 2 audit of the system in operation, then surveillance audits until recertification.
The Statement of Applicability is where the work shows. Every Annex A control is in or out, each exclusion carries a justification an auditor has to accept, and the document has to agree with what the rest of your system actually does, which is exactly the agreement a spreadsheet maintained on the side cannot hold.
Questions
- Do we have to implement all 93 Annex A controls?
- No. You select controls to treat the risks your assessment found, and exclude the rest with a justification recorded in the Statement of Applicability. What an auditor tests is whether the exclusions are defensible, not whether the list is complete.
- Can one certificate cover only part of the company?
- Yes, and most do. The scope statement on the certificate is the boundary. Cyberwiz models that as a target (a product, a business line, a region), so the program, its controls and its readiness are counted over that boundary rather than over everything you run.
- Does ISO 27001 evidence count towards SOC 2?
- Most of it. Both frameworks sit on the same common controls here, so an access review, a supplier assessment or a backup test is done once and counts against every framework control that references it.
Provable today, not at audit time.
Run it yourself or have Bindsec run it for you. Either way, the evidence is current and the posture is one place.