ISO/IEC 27001:2022 · Technological control
ISO 27001 Annex A 8.32: Change management
Quick answer
ISO 27001 Annex A 8.32 (Change management) is a technological control. Subject changes to information processing facilities and systems to change management.
What auditors look for
Auditors check that 8.32 is either justified as not applicable in your Statement of Applicability or implemented and working. Typical evidence includes:
- Change management procedure
- Change tickets with approvals
- Emergency change records
How to implement 8.32 in practice
- Scale approval to risk
- Link changes to tests and rollback plans
- Review emergency changes afterwards
- Name an owner for 8.32, decide how often it runs and file evidence each time, so the control is audit-ready all year.
Recording 8.32 in the Statement of Applicability
List 8.32 with whether it applies, the reason (usually the risks it treats or a legal or contractual requirement), its implementation status and where the evidence lives. If you exclude it, explain why none of your risks or obligations require it.
Free resources
More technological controls
- 8.26 Application security requirements
- 8.27 Secure system architecture and engineering principles
- 8.28 Secure coding
- 8.29 Security testing in development and acceptance
- 8.30 Outsourced development
- 8.31 Separation of development, test and production environments
- 8.33 Test information
- 8.34 Protection of information systems during audit testing