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Information security management systems: Requirements

AREA/SECTION	CONTROL	APPLICABLE	IMPLEMENTED	JUSTIFICATION FOR INCLUSION OR EXCLUSION

A.5 Information security policies
A.5.1 Management direction for information security	A.5.1.1 Policies for information security	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.5.1.2 Review of the policies for information security	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.

	Totals:	2	2

A.6 Organisation of information security
A.6.1 Internal organisation	A.6.1.1 Information security roles and responsibilities	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.6.1.2 Segregation of duties	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.6.1.3 Contact with authorities	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.6.1.4 Contact with special interest groups	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.6.1.5 Information security in project management	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
A.6.2 Mobile devices and teleworking	A.6.2.1 Mobile device policy	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.6.2.2 Teleworking	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.

	Totals:	4	3

A.7 Human resources security
A.7.1 Prior to employment	A.7.1.1 Screening	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.7.1.2 Terms and conditions of employment	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
A.7.2 During employment	A.7.2.1 Management responsibilities	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.7.2.2 Information security awareness, education and training	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.7.2.3 Disciplinary process	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
A.7.3 Termination and change of employment	A.7.3.1 Termination or change of employment responsibilities	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.

	Totals:	6	4

A.8 Asset management
A.8.1 Responsibility for assets	A.8.1.1 Inventory of assets	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.8.1.2 Ownership of assets	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.8.1.3 Acceptable use of assets	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.8.1.4 Return of assets	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
A.8.2 Information classification	A.8.2.1 Classification of information	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.8.2.2 Labelling of information	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.8.2.3 Handling of assets	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
A.8.3 Media Handling	A.8.3.1 Management of removable media	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.8.3.2 Disposal of media	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.8.3.3 Physical media transfer	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.

	Totals:	4	4

A.9 Access control
A.9.1 Business requirements of access control	A.9.1.1 Access control policy	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.9.1.2 Access to networks and network services	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
A.9.2 User access management	A.9.2.1 User registration and de-registration	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.9.2.2 User access provisioning	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.9.2.3 Management of privileged access rights	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.9.2.4 Management of secret authentication information of users	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.9.2.5 Review of user access rights	Yes	No	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.9.2.6 Removal or adjustment of access rights	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
A.9.3 User responsibilities	A.9.3.1 Use of secret authentication information	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
A.9.4 System and application access control	A.9.4.1 Information access restriction	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.9.4.2 Secure log-on procedures	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.9.4.3 Password management system	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.9.4.4 Use of privileged utility programs	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.9.4.5 Access control to program source code	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.

	Totals:	12	11

A.10 Cryptography
A.10.1 Cryptographic controls	A.10.1.1 Policy on the use of cryptographic controls	No	No	Vertic is not involved in cryptography work at all and therefore these controls are not applicable to our operational needs.
	A.10.1.2 Key management	No	No	Vertic is not involved in cryptography work at all and therefore these controls are not applicable to our operational needs.

	Totals:	0	0

A.11 Physical and environmental security
A.11.1 Secure areas	A.11.1.1 Physical security perimeter	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.11.1.2 Physical entry controls	Yes	Yes	Required due to meeting room availability. No storage of any kind.
	A.11.1.3 Securing offices, rooms and facilities	Yes	Yes	Required due to meeting room availability. No storage of any kind.
	A.11.1.4 Protecting against external and environmental threats	Yes	Yes	This is primarily around the needs of the overseas team who are more exposed to civil unrest.
	A.11.1.5 Working in secure areas	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.11.1.6 Delivery and loading areas	No	No	Vertic receives no deliveries to any physical locations.
A.11.2 Equipment	A.11.2.1 Equipment siting and protection	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.11.2.2 Supporting utilities	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.11.2.3 Cabling security	No	No	We use exclusive wireless networks so no cabling.
	A.11.2.4 Equipment maintenance	Yes	Yes	Laptop security is important but all access is cloud-based with no local storage requirements.
	A.11.2.5 Removal of assets	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.11.2.6 Security of equipment and assets off-premises	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.11.2.7 Secure disposal or reuse of equipment/media	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.11.2.8 Unattended user equipment	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.11.2.9 Clear desk and clear screen policy	Yes	Yes	Adhering to client’s privacy needs by not exposing sensitive information.

	Totals:	7	7

A.12 Operations security
A.12.1 Operational procedures and responsibilities	A.12.1.1 Documented operating procedures	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.12.1.2 Change management	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.12.1.3 Capacity management	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.12.1.4 Separation of development, testing and operational environments	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
A.12.2 Protection from malware	A.12.2.1 Controls against malware	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
A.12.3 Backup	A.12.3.1 Information backup	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
A.12.4 Logging and monitoring	A.12.4.1 Event logging	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.12.4.2 Protection of log information	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.12.4.3 Administrator and operator logs	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.12.4.4 Clock synchronisation	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
A.12.5 Control of operational software	A.12.5.1 Installation of software on operational systems	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
A.12.6 Technical vulnerability management	A.12.6.1 Management of technical vulnerabilities	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.12.6.2 Restrictions on software installation	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
A.12.7 Information systems audit considerations	A.12.7.1 Information systems audit controls	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.

	Totals:	11	9

A.13 Communications security
A.13.1 Network security management	A.13.1.1 Network controls	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.13.1.2 Security of network services	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.13.1.3 Segregation in networks	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
A.13.2 Information transfer	A.13.2.1 Information transfer policies and procedures	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.13.2.2 Agreements on information transfer	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.13.2.3 Electronic messaging	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.13.2.4 Confidentiality or nondisclosure agreements	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.

	Totals:	3	3

A.14 System acquisition, development and maintenance
A.14.1 Security requirements of information systems	A.14.1.1 Information security requirements analysis and specification	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.14.1.2 Securing application services on public networks	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.14.1.3 Protecting application services transactions	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
A.14.2 Security in development and support processes	A.14.2.1 Secure development policy	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.14.2.2 System change control procedures	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.14.2.3 Technical review of applications after operating platform changes	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.14.2.4 Restrictions on changes to software packages	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.14.2.5 Secure system engineering principles	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.14.2.6 Secure development environment	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.14.2.7 Outsourced development	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.14.2.8 System security testing	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.14.2.9 System acceptance testing	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
A.14.3 Test data	A.14.3.1 Protection of test data	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.

	Totals:	11	11

A.15 Supplier relationships
A.15.1 Information security in supplier relationships	A.15.1.1 Information security policy for supplier relationships	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.15.1.2 Addressing security within supplier agreements	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.15.1.3 Information and communication technology supply chain	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
A.15.2 Supplier service delivery management	A.15.2.1 Monitoring and review of supplier services	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.15.2.2 Managing changes to supplier services	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.

	Totals:	0	0

A.16 Information security incident management
A.16.1 Management of information security incidents and improvements	A.16.1.1 Responsibilities and procedures	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.16.1.2 Reporting information security events	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.16.1.3 Reporting information security weaknesses	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.16.1.4 Assessment of and decision on information security events	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.16.1.5 Response to information security incidents	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.16.1.6 Learning from information security incidents	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.16.1.7 Collection of evidence	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.

	Totals:	7	7

A.17 Information security aspects of business continuity management
A.17.1 Information security continuity	A.17.1.1 Planning information security continuity	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.17.1.2 Implementing information security continuity	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.17.1.3 Verify, review and evaluate information security continuity	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
A.17.2 Redundancies	A.17.2.1 Availability of information processing facilities	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.

	Totals:	3	2

A.18 Compliance
A.18.1 Compliance with legal and contractual requirements	A.18.1.1 Identification of applicable legislation and contractual requirements	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.18.1.2 Intellectual property rights	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.18.1.3 Protection of records	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.18.1.4 Privacy and protection of personally identifiable information	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.18.1.5 Regulation of cryptographic controls	No	No	Vertic is not involved in cryptography work at all and therefore these controls are not applicable to our operational needs.
A.18.2 Information security reviews	A.18.2.1 Independent review of information security	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.18.2.2 Compliance with security policies and standards	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.
	A.18.2.3 Technical compliance review	Yes	Yes	Required by the standard and Vertic’s operational needs.

	Totals:	7	7

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