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ISO/IEC 27001:2022 · Clause 7

7.5.2 Documented information: creating and updating

When documented information is created or updated the organization makes sure it has suitable identification and description (such as title, date, author or reference number), a suitable format (such as language, software version or graphics) and medium (paper or electronic), and is reviewed and approved as suitable and adequate.

Source: ISO/IEC 27001:2022, 7.5.2. 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 ISO/IEC 27001:2022 in the compliance library.

Clauses 4 to 10 are the management-system requirements: none of them can be excluded when an organisation claims conformity. The 93 Annex A controls are a reference set: one may be excluded with a justification in the Statement of Applicability. Certification bodies assess conformity; the evidence lists here are what auditors commonly ask for, not a list the standard prescribes.

4
artefacts
0
held by a system
1
at each review
hard
to go live
Document repository
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

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

none for this control

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

  • Approval records demonstrating review for suitability and adequacy · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • Document control conventions for titles, dates, authors, reference numbers and versions · Document repository
  • Examples of ISMS documents showing identification, format and approval · Document repository
  • Templates used for ISMS documents · Document repository

First move

No system holds this evidence for you: it is people and documents. Reminders and routing to the owner still save time. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date.

Common gaps auditors find

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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.

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7.5.1 Documented information: general · 7.5.3 Documented information: control