Environmental security standard
How equipment is protected from fire, water, power failure and other environmental threats, and how the utilities that support it are kept.
How the register reads it
| Also called | data centre standard, server room standard |
|---|---|
| Family | Operations and technology |
| Document type | Standard. The regimes ask for the content, not the label; a line pasted as a standard, procedure, plan or schedule is placed here with the label noted. |
| Folds into | The regimes accept it folded into the physical security policy; when neither is listed, the gap is counted once, under the parent. |
| Expected owner | Facilities or office management, with the information security lead. |
| Review cadence | Annual (the register's default: the clauses say planned intervals and on significant change, and do not fix a period). |
| On the gap list when | never on its own: the register recognises it and names the clauses, but no ticked regime lists it as a separate document (its parent, physical security policy, is). |
| Template | Environmental security policy. |
Which standards require it, and what each expects it to contain
1 requiring clauses, 1 regimesShown on a register for the regimes you tick; with none ticked, ISO 27001 is applied. Requirement text drawn from a human-verified compliance corpus under licence: the corpus statement of each clause, not the instrument verbatim.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022
ISO 27001 7.5 Protecting against physical and environmental threatsDesign and apply protection against natural disasters and other physical and environmental threats.
What the ISO 27002 guidance expects the document to say: Requires designed and implemented protection against physical and environmental threats. These include natural disasters as well as other physical threats to infrastructure, whether deliberate or accidental.
Common gap: risk assessments not updated after infrastructure changes
Source: ISO/IEC 27001:2022; guidance ISO/IEC 27002:2022
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