ISO/IEC 27001:2022
ISO/IEC 27001 readiness assessment
Find evidence weaknesses before the certification audit does.
The full Annex A control library (93 controls) plus clauses 4–10, versioned and change-controlled.
93 Annex A control entries · versioned & change-controlled
Who it’s for
Security and compliance teams pursuing or maintaining ISO/IEC 27001 certification — SaaS vendors, MSPs, and enterprises whose customers demand an ISMS.
What readiness means for ISO/IEC 27001
For ISO 27001, readiness means every applicable Annex A control and clause 4–10 requirement has sufficient, current evidence to withstand a certification audit — not merely a document on file.
How Netallion handles it
Your ISO/IEC 27001 readiness journey
- 1
Scope the ISMS
Establish the ISMS boundary and the applicable Annex A controls plus clause 4–10 requirements for your scope.
- 2
Map evidence to controls
Attach your policies, procedures and records to the requirements they support; ownership and review dates are tracked.
- 3
Assess sufficiency
Each control is assessed for whether the evidence actually demonstrates it — design and operation — not just that a document exists.
- 4
Surface blockers
Controls with insufficient or stale evidence become explicit blockers, ranked, with the reasons behind each.
- 5
Review & finalise
An authorised assessor reviews the determinations; the finalised readiness conclusion pins scope and evidence at a point in time.
The control library
What the ISO/IEC 27001 library gives you
The full Annex A control library (93 controls) plus clauses 4–10, versioned and change-controlled.
A curated, versioned catalogue of this framework’s 93 Annex A control entries — with provenance — to collect, own, organise and track the currency of your evidence against.
From the field
Common ISO/IEC 27001 blockers we find
Where evidence most often falls short — surfaced explicitly, not averaged away.
- An access-control policy exists, but there is no evidence of the periodic access reviews it requires.
- The Statement of Applicability lists a control as applicable, but no operating evidence is attached.
- Change management covers standard deployments but not emergency changes.
- Awareness training was run once, but there is no evidence of the annual refresh.
Evidence
The evidence you'll bring
You upload and own your evidence; Netallion organises it and tracks ownership and expiry. For this framework it typically spans:
Governance & risk
- Statement of Applicability
- risk assessment & treatment plan
- ISMS scope & objectives
- management review minutes
Access & operations
- access-control policy & reviews
- change management records
- logging & monitoring
- backup & recovery tests
People & suppliers
- security awareness training records
- supplier/security agreements
- background-check evidence
Resilience & incidents
- incident register & post-incident reviews
- business-continuity tests
- vulnerability management
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Prepare your ISO/IEC 27001 evidence
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ISO 27001 Readiness Kit
Netallion-authored templates and registers to prepare your ISO/IEC 27001 evidence — generated instantly, no sign-up. Then organise that evidence in Netallion and assess whether it’s sufficient.
- Annex A controls checklist
- Statement of Applicability starter
- Policy index
- README & how-to
No email required. Free to download and use.
From evidence to a conclusion
How readiness is reached
The kit helps you prepare. Netallion organises the evidence, assesses whether it's sufficient, and reaches a traceable readiness conclusion.
- 1Scope
The applicable requirement set for your framework and scope.
- 2Applicable requirements
A fixed denominator — every in-scope requirement counts.
- 3Evidence
You attach and own evidence; ownership and expiry are tracked.
- 4Evidence assessment
The evidence is read against each requirement for sufficiency.
- 5Determination
A requirement-level verdict with byte-verified citations.
- 6Blocker
Negative findings surface as explicit blockers, not averages.
- 7Remediation
Track the fix; reassessment — not a checkbox — resolves it.
- 8Review (R0–R3)
Controlled human review with recorded provenance.
- 9Finalisation
A signed, scope-pinned readiness conclusion.
- 10Report / export
Readiness report, evidence index, SoA, audit ZIP + SHA-256.
- 11Lifecycle & reassessment
Evidence expires/changes → affected requirements reopen.
Schematic of the assurance workflow. Evidence collection and management are available today; the assessment, determination, review and finalisation stages are the System-B assurance engine.
What you get out
- Requirement-level readiness across all 93 Annex A controls + clauses
- Statement of Applicability view
- explicit blocker list with reasons
- evidence index + audit ZIP with SHA-256 manifest
FAQ
ISO/IEC 27001 readiness — common questions
Does Netallion issue ISO 27001 certification?
No. Netallion assesses your readiness against the ISO 27001 requirements. Certification is issued by an accredited certification body after a certification audit; we help you arrive at that audit with defensible evidence.
How many ISO 27001 requirements does Netallion assess?
93 Annex A controls plus the clause 4–10 requirements, each assessed at the requirement level for evidence sufficiency.
Is this a readiness assessment or a gap analysis?
It is a requirement-level readiness assessment: for each control we determine whether the evidence is sufficient, and surface explicit blockers where it is not — which is more actionable than a coverage percentage.
Related
Cross-framework leverage
Evidence you assemble for one framework often supports another. Commonly paired with:
Readiness, not certification. Netallion provides evidence assurance and readiness assessment; it does not issue or guarantee any formal outcome. Where a framework has a formal certification, attestation, authorisation or conformity-assessment scheme, that outcome remains with the appropriately authorised third party or authority. ISO/IEC 27001 certification is issued by an accredited certification body after a certification audit. Where the boundary sits.
See what your ISO/IEC 27001 evidence proves
See how Netallion assesses whether your evidence is sufficient — with explicit blockers and a traceable readiness conclusion.