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# ISO/IEC 27001 compliance for feature flags

> Meet ISO 27001 compliance for feature flags with Unleash controls for access, identity, logging, monitoring, and backups.

## Overview

To achieve and maintain ISO 27001 certification, you must ensure that any system you integrate with, including feature flagging solutions, adhere to the same compliance standards. Using a non-compliant homegrown or third-party feature flagging system can compromise your certification and introduce unnecessary risks.

This guide provides an overview of how [Unleash Enterprise](https://www.getunleash.io/pricing) features align with ISO 27001 controls, helping your organization meet its compliance requirements.

## How Unleash features map to ISO 27001 controls

| ISO27001 Control                                     | Control Description                                                                                                                                                                                                         | Unleash Feature                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 5.2 Information security roles and responsibilities  | Information security roles and responsibilities should be defined and allocated according to the organization's needs.                                                                                                      | Unleash provides granular [role-based access control](/concepts/rbac) (RBAC) and [approval workflows](/concepts/change-requests) for state changes.                                                                                                                          |
| 5.7 Threat intelligence                              | Information relating to information security threats should be collected and analyzed to produce threat intelligence.                                                                                                       | When using the hosted version of Unleash, your instance is continuously scanned and protected by [Amazon Inspector](https://aws.amazon.com/inspector/) and [Amazon GuardDuty](https://aws.amazon.com/guardduty/) to identify security threats and alert Unleash of any risk. |
| 5.15 Access control                                  | Rules to control physical and logical access to information and other associated assets should be established and implemented based on business and information security requirements.                                      | In addition to RBAC, Unleash supports [single sign-on](/concepts/sso) (SSO) authentication and [SCIM integration](/concepts/scim) for user account provisioning.                                                                                                             |
| 5.16 Identity management                             | The full life cycle of identities should be managed.                                                                                                                                                                        | Unleash supports SSO and SCIM integration for automatic user account provisioning.                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| 5.18 Access rights                                   | Access rights to information and other associated assets should be provisioned, reviewed, modified, and removed in accordance with the organization's topic-specific policy and rules for access control.                   | Unleash supports SSO and SCIM integration for automatic user account provisioning.                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| 5.33 Protection of records                           | Records should be protected from loss, destruction, falsification, unauthorized access, and unauthorized release.                                                                                                           | When using the hosted version of Unleash, your data records are protected with a resilient architecture leveraging AWS data redundancy and backup services. This is described in our annual SOC2 report available in the Trust Center.                                       |
| 5.35 Independent review of information security      | The organization's approach to managing information security and its implementation including people, processes, and technologies should be reviewed independently at planned intervals, or when significant changes occur. | Unleash provides annual penetration test results and a SOC 2 report, both conducted by external auditors.                                                                                                                                                                    |
| 5.37 Documented operating procedures                 | Operating procedures for information processing facilities should be documented and made available to personnel who need them.                                                                                              | Unleash follows 14 internal policies to ensure secure information processing as part of its SOC2 compliance.                                                                                                                                                                 |
| 8.2 Privileged access rights                         | The allocation and use of privileged access rights should be restricted and managed.                                                                                                                                        | Unleash provides RBAC, granular permission administration, custom root roles, as well as approval workflows for state changes.                                                                                                                                               |
| 8.3 Information access restriction                   | Access to information and other associated assets should be restricted in accordance with the established topic-specific policy on access control.                                                                          | Unleash provides RBAC, granular permission administration, [custom root roles](/concepts/rbac#custom-root-roles), as well as [approval workflows](/concepts/change-requests) for state changes.                                                                              |
| 8.5 Secure authentication                            | Secure authentication technologies and procedures should be implemented based on information access restrictions and the topic-specific policy on access control.                                                           | In addition to RBAC, Unleash supports SSO authentication setup and SCIM integration.                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| 8.6 Capacity management                              | The use of resources should be monitored and adjusted in line with current and expected capacity requirements.                                                                                                              | Unleash provides both traffic monitoring and configuration statistics to help system administrators monitor and adjust resource usage.                                                                                                                                       |
| 8.13 Information backup                              | Backup copies of information, software, and systems should be maintained and regularly tested in accordance with the agreed topic-specific policy on backup.                                                                | In the hosted version of Unleash, periodic backups are automated. When self-hosting Unleash, the product provides an API to export its configuration, facilitating the backup automation.                                                                                    |
| 8.14 Redundancy of information processing facilities | Information processing facilities should be implemented with redundancy sufficient to meet availability requirements.                                                                                                       | The hosted version of Unleash is a highly available platform with load balancing, and redundancy across multiple AWS availability zones.                                                                                                                                     |
| 8.15 Logging                                         | Logs that record activities, exceptions, faults, and other relevant events should be produced, stored, protected, and analyzed.                                                                                             | Unleash provides complete [event logs](/concepts/events#event-log) and [access logs](/concepts/login-history) for all API and UI interactions.                                                                                                                               |
| 8.16 Monitoring activities                           | Networks, systems, and applications should be monitored for anomalous behavior, and appropriate actions taken to evaluate potential information security incidents.                                                         | The hosted version of Unleash provides network and application monitoring, intrusion detection, and diverse utilization alerts supported by an SRE team and a structured incident handling process.                                                                          |