What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on A.6.7 Remote working?

Statement of Applicability entry for control A.6.7, showing inclusion or justified exclusion, implementation status and the risks it treats; The topic-specific remote working policy defining conditions, permitted work, information classifications allowed and systems accessible; Remote access configuration showing multi-factor authentication, secure channels or virtual desktops; Endpoint configuration for remote devices: screen lock, inactivity timeout, firewall, anti-malware, encryption, location tracking and remote wipe; Training records for remote workers and support staff on secure remote working.

What is the most common gap auditors find on A.6.7?

Remote access relies on a password alone

ISO/IEC 27001:2022 · People controls

`A.6.7` Remote working

Where personnel work remotely, security measures are to be applied to protect information that is accessed, processed or held away from the organization's premises. Purpose (stated in ISO/IEC 27002:2022): ensures the security of information when personnel work remotely. As an Annex A reference control, it is compared with the controls determined in risk treatment (6.1.3 c) and recorded in the Statement of Applicability as included or excluded, with the justification and implementation status (6.1.3 d); implementation guidance is ISO/IEC 27002:2022 6.7.

Source: ISO/IEC 27001:2022, A.6.7. 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

moderate

to go live

Identity provider / directory

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

Remote access configuration showing multi-factor authentication, secure channels or virtual desktops · Identity provider / directory
Endpoint configuration for remote devices: screen lock, inactivity timeout, firewall, anti-malware, encryption, location tracking and remote wipe · Endpoint management (MDM / EDR)

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

Training records for remote workers and support staff on secure remote working · HR system / LMS

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Statement of Applicability entry for control A.6.7, showing inclusion or justified exclusion, implementation status and the risks it treats · Policy repository / GRC workspace
The topic-specific remote working policy defining conditions, permitted work, information classifications allowed and systems accessible · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

Start with the 2 of 5 artefacts that already live in a system (Identity provider / directory); keep the periodic reviews but log each one as a dated record with a named reviewer.

Common gaps auditors find

Remote access relies on a password alone
Personally owned devices are used with no control over what information they store
Remote workers print and dispose of sensitive documents at home without any rules
Monitoring and backup do not extend to remote endpoints

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 sheet

A.6.6 Confidentiality or non-disclosure agreements · A.6.8 Information security event reporting