5.32 Intellectual property rights
Requires appropriate procedures to be implemented to protect intellectual property rights.
5
artefacts
0
held by a system
4
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
- Software licence records reconciled against installed and deployed software, including cloud subscriptions · Cloud console / configuration management
- Evidence of controls preventing unlicensed installation, and detection where installation is possible · Document repository
- Records covering open source use, including licence obligations attaching to components in developed software · Document repository
- Awareness evidence showing personnel understand the restrictions on copying and reuse · HR system / LMS
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- The procedure protecting intellectual property rights, covering both third party rights and the organisation's own · Vendor register / contract repository
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
- Licence position tracked for the major vendors only, with utilities, libraries and developer tooling unmanaged
- Open source obligations never assessed, so copyleft licensed components ship inside a proprietary product
- Reconciliation performed at renewal or under audit pressure rather than as a routine control
- Cloud subscriptions purchased per team with no central record of entitlement
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 sheet5.31 Legal, statutory, regulatory and contractual requirements · 5.33 Protection of records