5.31 Legal, statutory, regulatory and contractual requirements
Requires the legal, statutory, regulatory and contractual requirements bearing on information security, and the organisation's approach to meeting them, to be identified, documented and kept up to date.
5
artefacts
0
held by a system
2
at each review
hard
to go live
Document repository
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Records of legal or specialist input where the interpretation is not straightforward · Document repository
- Evidence of assessment where the organisation operates across borders, including data transfer and cryptography restrictions · Document repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- The register of legal, statutory, regulatory and contractual requirements relevant to information security, per jurisdiction of operation · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- The documented approach to meeting each requirement, with the control or process that satisfies it · Document repository
- Evidence the register is maintained, showing how new and changed obligations are identified and the date of the last update · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
This control is evidenced by people and documents, not systems. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date. Do not try to automate it.
Common gaps auditors find
- Register lists laws with no mapping to any control, so compliance is asserted rather than demonstrated
- Horizon scanning absent, so the register reflects the position at the date it was created
- Contractual security obligations held in legal files and never extracted into the register, so operations do not know they exist
- Overseas jurisdictions omitted where the organisation processes data outside its home country
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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