A.11.1.4 Protecting against external and environmental threats
A.11.1.4 in ISO 27001:2013 (ISO/IEC 27001:2013). All ISO 27001:2013 controls held. Open ISO 27001:2013 on the standards site.
The control as we hold it
Protecting against external and environmental threats. Protection of the premises against natural disasters, deliberate attack or accidents is designed and put in place. As an Annex A reference control it is compared with the controls chosen in risk treatment (6.1.3 c) and recorded in the Statement of Applicability, included with a reason and an implementation status or excluded with a reason (6.1.3 d). Carried into ISO/IEC 27001:2022 as A.7.5.
Reviewed and closest counterparts in the other frameworks
Reviewed rows come from a released pair; a closest match is the nearest held text and is not a reviewed row.
ISO 27001:2022
- A.7.5 Protecting against physical and environmental threats (reviewed pair)
What an auditor commonly asks for
General guidance for this control area (domain: A.11 Physical and environmental security), in our words, not a statement of the standard and not binding on an assessor.
- the entry log and card review
- the environmental monitoring record
- the disposal and re-use record