A.12.1.4 Separation of development, testing and operational environments
A.12.1.4 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
Separation of development, testing and operational environments. Development, testing and operational environments are kept separate to lower the risk of unauthorized access to, or changes in, the operational environment. 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.8.31.
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.8.31 Separation of development, test and production environments (reviewed pair)
What an auditor commonly asks for
General guidance for this control area (domain: A.12 Operations security), in our words, not a statement of the standard and not binding on an assessor.
- the change and configuration records
- the log review and monitoring record
- the vulnerability and malware records
- the backup and restore test record