COM-01 Identification of applicable legal, regulatory, self-imposed or contractual requirements
Explicitly define and document the legal, regulatory, self imposed and contractual requirements bearing on the information security of the cloud service, together with the procedures the provider uses to comply with each of them.
Source: BSI C5 (121-criteria catalogue), COM-01. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open BSI C5 (121-criteria catalogue) in the compliance library.
The edition of the catalogue is not stamped here; check the edition your attestation is issued against.
These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
- Evidence of legal and regulatory horizon scanning keeping the register current · Vulnerability scanner / patch tooling
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
none for this control
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Register of applicable legal, regulatory, self imposed and contractual security requirements · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Mapping of each requirement to the procedure that satisfies it · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Named owner recorded against each requirement · Document repository
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- Register lists statutes only and omits commitments made to customers in contracts
- Requirements identified with no procedure named against them
- Register not refreshed when the service began operating in a new jurisdiction
- Self imposed commitments made in public statements never captured
Do this for your whole sheet
Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.
Build my evidence sheetBCM-04 Verification, updating and testing of the business continuity · COM-02 Policy for planning and conducting audits