ISO 27001 and related standards

The standards around ISO 27001 that buyers meet: ISO/IEC 27002 control guidance, the 27000 family, cloud and privacy extensions (27017, 27018, 27701), governance guidance and the CSA STAR certification built on ISO 27001.

ISO 27001 vs ISO 27002: requirements versus control guidance

How ISO 27001 and ISO 27002 differ and fit together: certifiable requirements versus guidance that cannot be certified, Annex A drawn from ISO/IEC 27002, control attributes, sector extensions and how organizations use 27002 to implement controls.

ISO 27017 for cloud service providers and customers

What ISO/IEC 27017:2026 adds for cloud services, who it applies to on the provider and customer side, how it is used with ISO 27001 certification and the A.5.23 cloud control, and how providers such as AWS show it.

ISO 27018 for protecting PII in public clouds

What ISO/IEC 27018:2025 covers for public cloud providers acting as PII processors, how it relates to ISO 27001, ISO 27017 and ISO 27701, and what cloud customers can and cannot rely on from a provider's ISO 27018 claim.

ISO 27014 governance of information security for boards

How ISO/IEC 27014 guides boards and top management in governing information security alongside an ISO 27001 ISMS: evaluate, direct, monitor and communicate, its link to clause 5 leadership, its pending revision, and how NIST CSF 2.0 governance outcomes compare.

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