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title: "ISO 27001 Compliance"
description: "How Alastor InfoSec supports ISO 27001:2022 certification — continuous ISMS control monitoring, risk assessment evidence, and audit-ready documentation."
keywords:
  - ISO 27001 compliance
  - ISO 27001 certification
  - information security management system
  - ISMS
  - ISO 27001:2022
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# ISO 27001 Compliance

ISO/IEC 27001 is the international standard for an Information Security Management System (ISMS) — a systematic, risk-based approach to managing information security, rather than a fixed checklist of controls. That flexibility is exactly why so many organizations struggle to operationalize it: the standard tells you to manage risk continuously, but most teams still treat certification as a once-every-three-years project.

## What ISO 27001 Actually Asks For

The current revision, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, is built around Annex A control categories spanning organizational, people, physical, and technological controls — but the certification itself hinges on your ISMS: documented risk assessments, a Statement of Applicability justifying which controls apply to your business, and evidence that the whole system is reviewed and improved continuously, not just assembled for the audit.

## Where Alastor InfoSec Fits

[Alastor Shield](/products/alastor-shield) automates the parts of ISO 27001 that consume the most audit-prep time: continuous control monitoring against your Statement of Applicability, automated evidence collection for technological controls, and access review tracking — so your ISMS reflects what's actually happening in your environment, not a snapshot from your last internal audit.

ISO 27001's technological controls explicitly call for vulnerability management and penetration testing evidence. [Alastor Pulse](/products/alastor-pulse) supplies that directly: continuous VAPT findings, severity ratings, and retest confirmations that map straight into your ISMS risk register instead of living in a separate PDF nobody cross-references during the audit.

## Common Certification Gaps

- **Risk assessments that were done once and never revisited** — ISO 27001 expects an ongoing risk treatment process, not a one-time exercise.
- **A Statement of Applicability that doesn't match reality** — controls marked "implemented" that were true a year ago but have since drifted.
- **Vulnerability management without a documented, repeatable process** — auditors want to see how vulnerabilities are found, tracked, and closed, not just a list of past findings.

## Who Needs ISO 27001

ISO 27001 matters most for organizations selling internationally, especially into EU and UK markets, or competing for enterprise contracts where SOC 2 alone doesn't satisfy the buyer's security team. It's also frequently pursued alongside SOC 2 for companies running both US and international sales motions.

[Talk to our team](/about-us) about building an ISMS that stays audit-ready year-round instead of during a scramble every three years.