The organization shall determine the boundaries and applicability of the information security
management system to establish its scope.
When determining this scope, the organization shall consider:
a) the external and internal issues referred to in 4.1;
b) the requirements referred to in 4.2;
c) interfaces and dependencies between activities performed by the organization, and those that are
performed by other organizations.
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Using this document, define the scope of your ISMS. This helps to define the organisation, products and services, locations, employees and contractors, and your scope of network.
The organization shall establish, implement, maintain and continually improve an information security management system, including the processes needed and their interactions, in accordance with the requirements of this document.
Using this document, you can create an annual plan that shows which isms compliance activities is planned across a financial year
Top management shall ensure that the responsibilities and authorities for roles relevant to information security are assigned and communicated within the organization.
Top management shall assign the responsibility and authority for:
a) ensuring that the information security management system conforms to the requirements of this
document;
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Using this document, you can define key roles. For each role you define who is playing that role in the organisation
d) produce a Statement of Applicability (SOA) that contains:
SOA is a design document that helps address, several challenges in ISMS program, such as a) applicable and not applicable controls, b) Risk owner for each control, and c) Policy/procedure/technical references against each control
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