Glossary of Compliance

Compliance Glossary

Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.

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Statement of Applicability

A Statement of Applicability is a document needed for ISO 27001 certification. It’s a document that declares the Annex A controls that your enterprise determined to be necessary for mitigating information security risk, including the Annex A controls that were excluded.

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