A.6.1.4 Contact with special interest groups
A.6.1.4 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
Contact with special interest groups. Suitable contacts are kept up with special interest groups, specialist security forums and professional bodies. 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.5.6.
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.5.6 Contact with special interest groups (reviewed pair)
- A.5.7 Threat intelligence (reviewed pair)
What an auditor commonly asks for
General guidance for this control area (domain: A.6 Organization of information security), in our words, not a statement of the standard and not binding on an assessor.
- the security roles and forum terms of reference
- the mobile device and remote-working records