A.5.31 Legal, statutory, regulatory and contractual requirements
Identify, document and keep current the legal and contractual obligations relevant to security, and your approach to meeting them.
12
artefacts
1
held by a system
3
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
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
- Updated legal requirements log · SIEM / log platform
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Annual legal review meeting minutes · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Signed service level agreements · Vendor register / contract repository
- Pci dss attestation of compliance · Vendor register / contract repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Master legal obligations register · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Vendor contracts with security clauses · Vendor register / contract repository
- Contractual compliance checklist · Document repository
- Gdpr compliance report · Document repository
- Industry regulatory license renewal certificate · Document repository
- Data protection impact assessment template · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Completed pi a for new system · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Privacy risk treatment plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Mostly documents and reviews. Pull the 1 system-held artefact from your SIEM / log platform on a schedule; put the documents under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a dated record with a named reviewer.
Common gaps auditors find
- outdated legal register
- missing security clauses in contracts
- no documented process for regulatory monitoring
- incomplete privacy impact assessments
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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