What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on 8.3 Information security risk treatment?

Evidence that actions in the risk treatment plan were implemented, such as change or project records; Retained records of treatment results and residual risk; Tracking of treatment actions with owners and dates; Updates to the SoA reflecting implementation status.

What is the most common gap auditors find on 8.3?

The treatment plan exists but actions are overdue with no follow-up

ISO/IEC 27001:2022 · Clause 8

`8.3` Information security risk treatment

The risk treatment plan must be put into effect, and documented information on the results of risk treatment must be retained.

Source: ISO/IEC 27001:2022, 8.3. 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.

artefacts

held by a system

at each review

hard

to go live

Policy repository / GRC workspace

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

Evidence that actions in the risk treatment plan were implemented, such as change or project records · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Retained records of treatment results and residual risk · Policy repository / GRC workspace

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Tracking of treatment actions with owners and dates · Document repository
Updates to the SoA reflecting implementation status · Policy repository / GRC workspace

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

The treatment plan exists but actions are overdue with no follow-up
No record of treatment results is kept
SoA status is not updated when controls are implemented
Residual risk after treatment is never reassessed

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.

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8.2 Information security risk assessment · 9.1 Monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation