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ISO27001-A.6.3 Information Security Awareness, Education and Training

  • Updated Jun 10, 2026
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  • Status reviewed

People need to know how to behave securely in their actual role. Everyone needs baseline awareness, but people with specific responsibilities need deeper training that matches their work, systems, information access, and security duties.

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Control Purpose

People need to know how to behave securely in their actual role. Everyone needs baseline awareness, but people with specific responsibilities need deeper training that matches their work, systems, information access, and security duties.

Use A.6.3 Information Security Awareness, Education and Training for the detailed requirement, implementation guidance, audit checks, evidence expectations, and related ISO 27005 context.

Risk Logic

01 Asset What must be protected: data, service, process, person, or facility.
02 Threat Event, actor, or condition that can cause harm.
03 Vulnerability Weakness that makes the threat relevant.
04 Risk Scenario with likelihood, impact, owner, and priority.
05 Treatment Avoid, mitigate, transfer, or accept the risk.
06 Control Safeguard selected through ISO 27001/27002 and the SoA.
07 Evidence Record proving the control exists and operates.
08 Audit Independent verification, finding, or assurance result.

Detailed Note

No published risk scenario is linked to this control yet. Create or link a risk note under the risk knowledge base before treating this control as fully mapped.

Implementation Activities

See A.6.3 Information Security Awareness Education and Training.

Evidence Required

See A.6 People Controls MOC and A.6.3 Audit Evidence Pack.

Audit Questions

  • AQ-ISO27001-A.6.3 Audit Question
  • How does the organization prove ISO27001-A.6.3 is implemented and operating?
  • What evidence shows ownership, review cadence, exceptions, and corrective action?
  • Which failed condition would create an audit finding for this control?

Map this control to human error, social engineering, competence, and control-operation risk scenarios.

Use ISO/IEC 27002 guidance to interpret awareness, education, training, records, updates, and effectiveness review.

Software Architecture Mapping

Relevant objects:

  • control
  • personnel
  • training
  • evidence
  • audit_question
  • Iso27001
  • ISO27002
  • Annex a
  • Control
  • Awareness
  • Training

Note Metadata

Aliases: ISO27001-A.6.3

Source: 06-Control-Knowledge-Base/ISO27001-A.6.3-Information-Security-Awareness-Education-and-Training.md

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ISO27001-A.6.3 Information Security Awareness, Education and Training
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Requirement context

Primary control text, framework notes, or adjacent controls this note points to.

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Evidence required

Evidence packs and proof records that support auditability.

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Audit checks

Audit questions, checklists, or review material connected to the control.

Graph-sourced resources

Templates and evidence

Auditor evidence packs

Evidence collections and audit-facing verification material.