An introduction to information security

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5.4.2 The Statement of Applicability

The composition of the Statement of Applicability of the ISMS is Stage 8 of the ISMS planning process.

Activity 16

Read the section of Chapter 6 of the Set Book entitled ‘Selection of controls and statement of applicability? and then describe the role of the Statement of Applicability. As before, references to ‘the standard? mean Part 2 of the Standard.

Discussion

The Statement of Applicability formally documents the decisions reached on which control objectives and controls have been chosen and which have not, together with the reasons for each decision.

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