Whether you're pursuing ISO 27001 certification for the first time or maintaining an existing one, Operlity gives your team the structured platform to manage every stage of the compliance journey — from gap assessment and control implementation through audit preparation and continuous certification maintenance.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 is the internationally recognized standard for Information Security Management Systems (ISMS). Published by the International Organization for Standardization, it provides a systematic framework for managing sensitive information and ensuring its confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The 2022 revision consolidated the previous 114 controls into 93 controls organized across four themes — Organizational, People, Physical, and Technological.
Achieving ISO 27001 certification signals to customers, partners, and regulators that your organization takes information security seriously — and has the documented processes, controls, and governance to prove it. For many organizations, it is no longer optional; enterprise customers, government agencies, and regulated industry buyers increasingly require it as a condition of doing business.
Defining the right ISMS scope is critical and often underestimated; too broad and the program becomes unmanageable, too narrow and the certification loses credibility.
The ISO 27001:2022 Annex A control set (organizational, people, physical, and technological) must be assessed for applicability, implemented, and evidenced — a significant undertaking without structured tooling.
Documenting applicability decisions and justifications for every control is a critical audit requirement that is time-consuming to produce and maintain manually.
Auditors require documented evidence of control implementation and operation across a wide range of domains — gathering this manually is one of the biggest time sinks in any ISO 27001 program.
Certification is not a one-time achievement; surveillance audits and triennial recertification require ongoing compliance monitoring and evidence management.
Organizations pursuing ISO 27001 alongside SOC 2, GDPR, or other frameworks duplicate significant effort without a platform that maps controls across frameworks.
| ISO 27001:2022 Theme | Controls | Operlity Capability |
|---|---|---|
| A.5 — Organizational | 37 | Policy lifecycle management, regulatory obligations management, third party risk management, incident register, and business continuity governance |
| A.6 — People | 8 | Policy acknowledgement tracking, onboarding and offboarding workflows, and awareness governance |
| A.7 — Physical | 14 | Physical infrastructure catalog with control tracking and evidence management for site, facility, and equipment safeguards |
| A.8 — Technological | 34 | Identity governance, cyber risk management, asset and data inventory, and control evidence tracking across cryptography, operations, communications, and secure development |
Define your ISMS scope, conduct a structured gap assessment against ISO 27001 requirements, and establish your baseline compliance posture.
Conduct an ISO 27001-aligned risk assessment, identify and evaluate information security risks, and define treatment plans for risks that exceed your acceptance threshold.
Implement applicable Annex A controls with structured tracking, ownership assignment, and evidence collection — documenting your Statement of Applicability as you go.
Conduct a structured internal audit of your ISMS using Operlity's audit management capability — identifying gaps and corrective actions before your certification audit.
Consolidate your evidence, finalize your SoA, and prepare your audit documentation — with Operlity's compliance dashboard giving you a real-time view of readiness across all domains.
Maintain your certification through ongoing compliance monitoring, evidence management, and surveillance audit preparation — so recertification is a structured process, not a recurring crisis.