ISO/IEC 27001:2022: Key Requirements and How AppTrana WAAP Supports Compliance

With ever-evolving cyber threats and increasing regulatory scrutiny, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 offers a solid framework to manage information security systematically. Whether you are protecting sensitive data, building trust with stakeholders, or aiming for compliance, adhering to this standard is critical.

This blog covers ISO/IEC 27001:2022’s key requirements and how AppTrana WAAP helps organizations stay compliant with robust security, threat detection, and vulnerability management

Key ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Clauses and Their Focus

Clause 6.1.1 – Information Security Risk Assessment

• 6.1.1d: Organizations must identify and assess information security risks considering the likelihood and impact.
• 6.1.1e2: Risk treatment decisions should be made to mitigate, accept, avoid, or transfer risk.
• 6.1.2a1: Define how risk treatment options will be implemented.
• 6.1.2c1: Execute the defined treatment plans.
• 6.1.2d3: Review risk treatment plans to ensure relevance.
• 6.1.2e1 / 6.1.2e2: Evaluate if treatment actions are effective and producing intended results.
• 6.2c: Information security objectives should be measurable and aligned with risk assessments.

How AppTrana WAAP helps

• Inbuilt DAST Scanner: Automatically scans applications at runtime to identify real, exploitable vulnerabilities.
• Manual Pen Testing: Complements automated scanning with expert-led manual penetration testing to uncover complex vulnerabilities and validate findings.
• Continuous Risk Assessment: Delivers real-time insights by combining vulnerability data with live application behavior.
• Business Context Mapping: Assesses risks by correlating vulnerabilities with asset sensitivity and exposure.
• Threat Intelligence Integration: Validates the likelihood of exploitation using global attack data and trends.

Clause 8.3: Information Security Risk Treatment

After identifying and evaluating risks (as per Clause 6.1), organizations must put in place appropriate controls or actions to treat those risks—whether through mitigation, acceptance, avoidance, or transference.

This clause ensures that risk treatment is not just a documented plan, but an active and operational part of the information security management system (ISMS).

 How AppTrana WAAP Supports

•  SwyftComply: Built to ensure that identified vulnerabilities are immediately tracked and remediated, enabling timely, audit-ready risk mitigation aligned with ISO 27001 compliance. Powered by AppTrana’s integrated DAST and pen testing, and paired with instantaneous vulnerability remediation, it helps organizations maintain continuous security without delays.
• CI/CD Integration: Embeds risk treatment into the development lifecycle for sustained coverage.
• Continuous Monitoring: Tracks effectiveness of applied controls and adapts to changing attack patterns in real time.
• Managed Security Experts: Offer continuous guidance on treatment options—whether to mitigate, monitor, or accept specific risks.

Clause 6.1.3g – Risk Communication

Risks and treatment actions should be communicated to relevant stakeholders.

How AppTrana WAAP Helps

With AppTrana’s centralized dashboard and customizable reports, teams can share vulnerability data, treatment actions, and risk scores with internal stakeholders, auditors, and compliance teams. Alerts and notifications ensure that the right teams are informed when vulnerabilities are discovered or mitigated.

Clause 10.2b3 – Monitoring and Review of Controls

Organizations must review the effectiveness of implemented controls and ensure they remain appropriate.

How AppTrana WAAP Helps

• Automated Validation via DAST – The inbuilt DAST scanner tests vulnerabilities and validates whether existing controls are actively mitigating risks.
• Continuous Monitoring of Controls – AppTrana tracks the performance of WAF rules, bot mitigation policies, and virtual patches in real time to ensure they remain effective.
• Real-Time Adaptation – AppTrana’s managed security experts adjust controls based on evolving threats, ensuring proactive protection.
• Audit-Ready Reporting – Dashboards and reports provide clear visibility into control performance and support compliance audits.
• Actionable Protection Dashboard
  Our centralized dashboard is the core of risk visibility—offering a real-time view of the protection status of each application. It empowers security teams to monitor, prioritize, and act on risks effectively.
• Quarterly CSM Reviews
  Our Customer Success Managers conduct quarterly reviews to guide organizations on improving their security posture. This includes actionable insights on moving applications to block mode, securing origin servers, and closing residual risks with confidence 

Clauses 5.7 – Threat Intelligence and Security Readiness

• 5.7 – Gather and analyze threat intelligence for proactive defense.
• 5.30 – Ensure ICT readiness for business continuity in case of disruptions.

How AppTrana WAAP Helps

• Real-time Threat Intelligence – AppTrana combines proprietary threat intelligencefrom its platform with third-party threat feeds (e.g., IP reputation databases, botnet activity lists, CVE updates) to detect new vulnerabilities and malicious actors targeting web applications.
• Proactive Defense with Managed Services – Its managed security experts analyze threat data and tune protection strategies, enabling faster response to threats
• Business Continuity Through Resilient Protection – AppTrana ensures uninterrupted application performance even under attack, thanks to its always-on WAAP, DDoS mitigation, auto-scaling architecture, and built-in fail-safe mechanisms. These capabilities work together to support ICT continuity, minimize downtime, and maintain secure access during unexpected disruptions or targeted attacks.
• Ongoing Readiness and Response – Continuous monitoring, attack trend analysis, and expert-driven updates ensure that your defenses remain current and aligned with evolving threat landscapes — fulfilling the proactive and resilient security posture required by ISO 27001.

Clauses 8.10 – Data Protection and Privacy

• 10 – Data Deletion

Ensure that data is securely and promptly deleted when it is no longer needed.

• 11 – Data Masking

Apply masking or obfuscation to protect sensitive data from unauthorized access or exposure.

• 12 – Data Leakage Prevention (DLP)

Implement measures to prevent unauthorized transmission or exposure of sensitive data.

Understand the benefits of Data Leakage Prevention (DLP).

How AppTrana WAAP Helps

• Data Masking at the Edge – Sensitive fields (e.g., credit card numbers, PII) can be masked in real-time at the edge using AppTrana’s custom WAF rules, ensuring that only authorized users can view unmasked data.
• Leak Prevention via WAF Rules & DLP Filters – AppTrana’s customizable WAF policies detect and block unauthorized data exposure, including patterns of sensitive data (like SSNs or financial information), helping enforce data leakage prevention.

Clause 8.23 – Web Filtering and Content Control

Use web filtering to restrict access to unauthorized or malicious content.

How AppTrana WAAP Helps

• URL and Content-Based Filtering – AppTrana WAAP allows granular control over incoming and outgoing traffic by filtering based on URL paths, content types, and request headers — preventing access to or from malicious sources.
• Blocklists and Custom Rules – It leverages reputation-based IP blocklists and enables custom WAF rules to restrict access to unsafe domains, reduce exposure to malicious scripts, and block command-and-control attempts.
• Protection Against Malicious Payloads – AppTrana inspects request and response bodies for malicious payloads or unauthorized data transfers, helping enforce content control policies in real time.

Summary Table: ISO 27001:2022 Clause Mapping to AppTrana WAAP

The real star of this is our dashboard where we show protection status on each application. How did you miss that? Our quarterly CSM reviews show our customers how to move to block mode and secure origin servers. Talk about these.

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