
The international standard, ISO/IEC 27002:2022, has been officially published on Feb 15th, 2022. Each control in the standard has been associated with five attributes with corresponding attribute values. Which of the following is not a value of the control type attribute? (Wentz QOTD)
A. Preventive
B. Detective
C. Corrective
D. Recovery
Kindly be reminded that the suggested answer is for your reference only. It doesn’t matter whether you have the right or wrong answer. What really matters is your reasoning process and justifications.
My suggested answer is D. Recovery.
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There are 93 distinct controls introduced in ISO/IEC 27002:2022. They are categorized as:
a) people, if they concern individual people;
b) physical, if they concern physical objects;
c) technological, if they concern technology;
d) otherwise they are categorized as organizational.
Control Taxonomy
Each control is associated with five attributes with corresponding attribute values (preceded by “#” to make them searchable), as follows:
- Control type: Preventive, Detective, and Corrective.
- Information security properties: Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability.
- Cybersecurity concepts: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover.
- Operational capabilities: as the following list shows.
- Security domains: Governance_and_Ecosystem, Protection, Defence and Resilience
Operational Capabilities
- Governance
- Asset_management
- Information_protection
- Human_resource_security
- Physical_security
- System_and_network_security
- Application_security
- Secure_configuration
- Identity_and_access_management
- Threat_and_vulnerability_management
- Continuity
- Supplier_relationships_security
- Legal_and_compliance
- Information_security_event_management
- Information_security_assurance

Reference
國際標準 ISO/IEC 27002:2022 已於 2022 年 2 月 15 日正式發布。標準中的每個控件都與具有相應屬性值的五個屬性相關聯。 以下哪一項不是控件類型(control type)屬性的值? (Wentz QOTD)
A. 預防 (preventive)
B. 偵測 (detective)
C. 糾正 (corrective)
D. 恢復 (recovery)