Topic

Assessment of outsourced cloud services

Applicable to

all

History

Jun 2022

Outsourced cloud service providers and their cloud services undergo a security assessment by an IRAP assessor at least every 24 months.

Miscellaneous changes were made to rationale and recommendations throughout the publication to clarify content. This included the adoption of ‘control’ terminology, in preference to ‘security control’ terminology, to allow for the capture of other types of controls in the future, such as privacy controls, in addition to security controls.

In addition, formatting changes were made to the system security plan annex template and the cloud controls matrix template in order to increase their alignment, such as the inclusion of an ‘implementation status’ column within the system security plan annex template. Furthermore, a new ‘responsible entity’ column was added to both templates in order to capture information on the responsible system (in the case of inherited controls) or responsible vendor (in the case of multi-vendor systems) that are responsible for the implementation of controls. Note, this column can also be used to capture information on teams or individuals that are responsible for the implementation of controls if desired.

Jul 2020

Cloud service providers and their cloud services undergo a security assessment by an IRAP assessor at least every 24 months.

Security control 1570 was introduced to provide guidance on the frequency of security assessments by IRAP assessors for cloud service providers and their cloud services.