ISO/IEC 27017 is guidance for cloud security controls, not a standalone certification standard. For management-system certification, ISO/IEC 27001 supplies the certifiable requirements; ISO/IEC 27017 can support cloud-control design and evidence within the stated scope.
Check the certificate's standard and edition, certified organization, scope, sites, issuing body, status, validity, and whether the cloud service you rely on is covered. A provider certificate does not prove customer-managed controls.
is cloud security control guidance, not a standalone management-system certification standard. An organization can use it within an ISO/IEC 27001 information security management system (), including additional cloud controls in its . The certificate is still issued against ISO/IEC 27001 for a stated scope. ISO develops standards; external certification bodies issue certificates.
No standalone ISO/IEC 27017 management-system certification is established by the standard. provides additional guidance for ISO/IEC 27002 controls and seven additional cloud controls for providers and customers.
ISO/IEC 27001 is the certifiable requirements standard. An organization can use ISO/IEC 27017 in its risk treatment and extend its with the additional cloud controls, but it should describe the claim as ISO/IEC 27001 certification and state the certified scope accurately.
Some certificates, audit reports, or certification-body materials may mention ISO/IEC 27017 as guidance used within the assessment. Read the document rather than treating that wording as a separate ISO certification scheme.
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Primary ISO listing for cloud-service security control guidance.
Code of practice for information security controls based on ISO/IEC 27002 for cloud services
Confirms that ISO/IEC 27001:2022 defines requirements for an ISMS and explains certification to that standard.
Defines certification and accreditation, explains how to verify a certificate, and confirms that ISO does not issue certificates.
ISO does not perform certification
Ask for the certificate and read its exact standard, edition, certified legal entity, scope statement, covered sites, issue and expiry dates, certificate number, and certification body. Verify current status with the issuing certification body, its body, or the recognized database linked by ISO.
Then test relevance to the service. The certified organization may exclude a product, region, subsidiary, data center, or process that the customer uses. Even an in-scope provider does not prove that customer-side identity, configuration, workload logging, backup, or incident duties are operating.
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Primary ISO listing for the ISO/IEC 27002 information security control guidance standard.
Information security controls
Primary ISO listing for the current ISO/IEC 27001 ISMS requirements standard.
Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection — Information security management systems — Requirements
Explains the certificate and accreditation details to verify and identifies recognized routes for confirming certification status.
ISO does not perform certification
Record what the certificate proves and what it does not. Link the certificate check to the service risk assessment and provider/customer responsibility matrix so reviewers can see where independent assurance ends and customer verification begins.
A certificate can reduce duplicate review where its scope and evidence are relevant. ISO/IEC 27017 also recognizes independent audit evidence when individual customer audits are impractical or could increase security risk, provided there is sufficient transparency. If an independent audit is impractical, the 2015 guidance says the provider should conduct a self-assessment and disclose its process and results to the customer.
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Primary ISO listing for the current ISO/IEC 27001 ISMS requirements standard.
Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection — Information security management systems — Requirements
Primary ISO listing for cloud-service security control guidance.
Code of practice for information security controls based on ISO/IEC 27002 for cloud services
Clause 18.2.1 supports independent audit evidence where customer audits are impractical and disclosed provider self-assessment where independent audit is impractical.
Reject wording that calls ISO the certifier, omits the ISO/IEC 27001 edition or certified scope, or presents ISO/IEC 27017 as a standalone management-system certificate. Also reject a claim that turns provider certification into automatic legal compliance for the customer.
Certification is written assurance that specified requirements are met within the assessed scope. It is not a warranty that every control operated without exception after the audit date, that every service is included, or that every customer obligation is satisfied.
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Primary ISO listing for cloud-service security control guidance.
Code of practice for information security controls based on ISO/IEC 27002 for cloud services
Primary ISO listing for the ISO/IEC 27002 information security control guidance standard.
Information security controls
Check status before contracting and at renewal, certificate expiry, scope change, provider restructuring, service or region change, major incident, or material change to the control boundary. Update the risk decision if the certified scope no longer matches the service.
ISO now lists the 2015 edition as withdrawn and ISO/IEC 27017:2026 as its replacement. This page retains the 2015 guidance; confirm the edition required by the agreement or assessment before reusing its control references. Review edition changes through the risk-treatment process and check the actual certificate scope.
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Primary ISO listing for the ISO/IEC 27002 information security control guidance standard.
Information security controls
Primary ISO listing for the current ISO/IEC 27001 ISMS requirements standard.
Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection — Information security management systems — Requirements
Record the certificate status and scope, then collect separate evidence for service-specific and customer-managed controls.
Convert ISO/IEC 27017 Certification Reality into accountable tasks, evidence requests, and review checkpoints.
Review your ISO/IEC 27017 cloud-security scope, evidence gaps, and next implementation steps.
"ISO does not perform certification"
"Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection — Information security management systems — Requirements"
"Information security controls"
"Code of practice for information security controls based on ISO/IEC 27002 for cloud services"
ISO/IEC 27017 cloud provider checklist covering service scope, shared responsibilities, agreements, tenant isolation, operations, evidence, and secure exit.
Answers to ISO/IEC 27017:2015 cloud-security questions on shared roles, agreements, administration, logging, assurance, virtualization, and customer controls.
How cloud providers and customers apply ISO/IEC 27017:2015 through scoped risks, allocated responsibilities, agreements, controls, evidence, and review.
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A service-specific workflow for testing hyperscaler claims, collecting provider and customer evidence, resolving gaps, and approving cloud risk under ISO/IEC 27017:2015.
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ISO/IEC 27017 does not grant unrestricted cloud-provider audits. Define the contract route for independent assurance, supporting access, exceptions, and escalation.
Apply ISO/IEC 27017 to customer and provider cloud administrators: strong authentication, limited privileges, logged operations, supervised critical work, and review evidence.
Use ISO/IEC 27017 to define cloud security roles, provider measures, evidence, incident handling, supplier dependencies, and exit terms in the service agreement.
Identify the cloud controls the customer should assess, configure, operate, monitor, evidence, and review when provider controls do not meet every security requirement.
Allocate cloud event logging and monitoring between provider and customer, verify accessible events, privileged operations, timestamps, retention, alerts, and evidence.
Check whether a cloud provider's certificate, audit report, or self-assessment supports its claims for the entity, service, location, controls, and period in scope.
Allocate ISO/IEC 27017 cloud-security roles to named provider, customer, and upstream parties for one service, then document, communicate, implement, and review the split.
Allocate tenant isolation, virtual-machine hardening, administrative operations, images, snapshots, and virtual-network policy under ISO/IEC 27017.