ISO 27002
The current version of ISO 27002 was issued in 2013 and is now hopelessly out of date. A great deal has changed in the last 8 years! Let’s hope we won’t have to wait another 8 years for the next edition.
As with the previous edition, ISO 27002 is meant to be independent in the sense that it may be utilized by organizations who are uninterested in ISO 27001 and just want a set of information security rules to implement inside their organization. In this regard, it is identical to other control frameworks, such as the CSA’s NIST CSF. Choose your poison!
The new version will go out possibly in the upcoming months where the only significant change is that Annex A will match the new ISO 27002. This introduces 11 new controls, which are as follows:
- Threat intelligence
- Information security for use of cloud services
- ICT readiness for business continuity
- Physical security monitoring
- Configuration management
- Information deletion...