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Which information do you have to document?

Clauses 4 to 10 refer to processes, policies and registers that must be established by management (e.g. the aforementioned Information Security Policy, and the Statement of Applicability).

Annex A contains documentation which is required if the respective control is in scope to be implemented as part of the ISMS.

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For example, the Supplier Security Policy.

If you have no suppliers (that pose any risk for information security) then you won't need control 5.19: Information security in supplier relationships. And if you are not implementing this control, you are also not implementing a Supplier Security Policy.

In practice, however, virtually all ISO27001-certified organisations have suppliers and therefore need to have this policy in place.

Documented information​

This chapter describes the most common information to be documented as part of the implementation of an ISO27001-compliant ISMS. Where documented information needs to be available, it is just that. The information needs to be documented somewhere. By using Tidal some documented information will be prepared as you work in implementing you ISMS, and do not have to be prepared explicitly. Other documentation, such as policies, always require management review and acceptance.

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Once again Tidal Control helps. We have already compiled a list of the most common documents as part of the ISMS implementation and added templates of these documents to their respective controls in the Tidal platform.

Doc. ref.Document NameRequired ?Where is it located in Tidal
ISMS_001Organisation contextYesPolicies page
ISMS_002Scope of the ISMSYesPolicies page
ISMS_003Legal and contractual requirementsYesPolicies page
ISMS_004Information security policyYesPolicies page
ISMS_005Information classification and management policyYesPolicies page
ISMS_006Risk management frameworkYesPolicies page
ISMS_007Risk assessment reportYesRisks page
ISMS_008Statement of applicabilityYesPolicies page
ISMS_009Information security objectivesYesPolicies page
ISMS_010Internal audit frameworkYesPolicies page
ISMS_011Internal audit planYesPolicies page
ISMS_012Internal audit reportYesPolicies page
ISMS_013Management review of the ISMSYesPolicies page
ISMS_014Acceptable use policyNo, but recommendedPolicies page
ISMS_015Access control policyNo, but recommendedPolicies page
ISMS_016Secure baselineNo, but recommendedPolicies page
ISMS_017Incident response frameworkNo, but recommendedPolicies page
ISMS_018Incident in-take formNo, but recommendedPolicies page
ISMS_019Incident logNo, but recommendedIssues page
ISMS_020Incident evidence registerNo, but recommendedPolicies page
ISMS_021Incident action planNo, but recommendedIssues page
ISMS_022Secure development policyNo, but recommendedPolicies page
ISMS_023Business continuity frameworkNo, but recommendedPolicies page
ISMS_024Business impact analysisNo, but recommendedAssets page
ISMS_025Disaster recovery test reportNo, but recommendedPolicies page
ISMS_026Supplier security policyNo, but recommendedPolicies page
ISMS_027Privacy policyNo, but recommendedn/a
ISMS_028Data protection impact assessment (GDPR)No, but recommendedPolicies page
ISMS_029Data processing register (GDPR)No, but recommendedPolicies page
ISMS_030Roles & ResponsibilitiesNo, but recommendedPolicies page
ISMS_031Third party registerNo, but recommendedPolicies page
ISMS_032Logging and Monitoring policyNo, but recommendedPolicies page
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