A.5.17 Authentication information
A.5.17 in ISO 27001:2022 (ISO/IEC 27001:2022). All ISO 27001:2022 controls held. Open ISO 27001:2022 on the standards site.
The control as we hold it
Authentication information. A management process is to control how authentication information is allocated and managed, and it includes telling personnel how to handle such information properly. Purpose (stated in ISO/IEC 27002:2022): ensures proper entity authentication and prevents authentication process failures. As an Annex A reference control, it is compared with the controls determined in risk treatment (6.1.3 c) and recorded in the Statement of Applicability as included or excluded, with the justification and implementation status (6.1.3 d); implementation guidance is ISO/IEC 27002:2022 5.17.
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 27001:2013
- A.9.2.4 Management of secret authentication information of users (reviewed pair)
- A.9.3.1 Use of secret authentication information (reviewed pair)
- A.9.4.3 Password management system (reviewed pair)
What an auditor commonly asks for
General guidance for this control area (domain: Organizational controls), in our words, not a statement of the standard and not binding on an assessor.
- the signed information security policy and its topic policies
- the roles and responsibilities register
- the schedule and minutes of management review
- the records of contact with authorities and interest groups