# ISO/IEC 27701:2025 A.3.24 — Information backup

- Source: https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-27701-2025/a-3-24-information-backup
- Section: [Compliance](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance) › [ISO/IEC 27701:2025 PIMS Controls](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-27701-2025) › Security considerations
- Last updated: 2026-06-05
- Publisher: iCompaas, Inc. (https://www.icompaas.com)

**ISO/IEC 27701:2025**·Annex A `A.3.24`·high·Component: **Security considerations**

## What this control requires

> Maintain and regularly test backups of PII and related systems. Implementation: Backup policies, tests, restoration logs and customer notification as required. Justification: Ensures recoverability and integrity after incidents.
> 
> — ISO/IEC 27701:2025, Annex A A.3.24

### In plain English

Maintain and regularly test backups of PII and related systems. In practice, this means you can prove you maintain information backup-level controls on a defined cadence.

## Why it matters

ISO 27701 is the international way to evidence the GDPR principle of accountability: certified PIMS controls translate directly into the records, contracts and rights-handling that supervisory authorities want, and into the privacy-engineering evidence SOC 2 + Privacy auditors and enterprise procurement teams ask for.

This control is rated **high**. Auditors expect a named owner, a remediation SLA, and a tooling artefact that evidences continuous operation.

## What an auditor looks for

PIMS auditors expect ISO 27001 to be implemented first and then the 27701-additional controls tested. For PII controllers they look at lawful-basis and rights-handling evidence; for PII processors they look at customer-instructions, sub-processor controls and return/transfer/disposal evidence.

Within **Security considerations**, the assessor will trace your implementation back to the catalogue reference (Annex A A.3.24) and look for objective evidence on the latest two assessment cycles.

## How to implement

1.  Write a short policy stating intent, scope and named owner.
2.  Encode it as a platform guardrail — SCP, Azure Policy initiative, Organisation Policy, or repository policy.
3.  Wire a monitoring signal that catches drift (CSPM rule, SIEM rule, scheduled query, Workspace alert) and ticket it.
4.  Review on a documented cadence and capture the review in the risk register or compliance tracker.

### Operational checklist

-   **Maintain.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence.
-   **Implement.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence.
-   **Ensure.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence.
-   **Scope:** information backup.

## Evidence to collect

-   **Infra Scan.** Continuous infrastructure-posture telemetry — AWS Config, Azure Policy compliance, GCP Organisation Policy, Wiz / Prisma findings.
-   **Policy Document.** A signed and version-controlled policy / standard / procedure document.

Signed policies, procedures, and registers document the safeguard. Infrastructure posture tooling (AWS/Azure/GCP configuration, encryption, backup, logging) verifies technical enforcement. Focus: Information backup.

## How it maps to other frameworks

Computed from shared tags, control component and key-operation subjects — handy when you are reconciling controls across an audit.

-   [**India DPDP Act 2023 SE-004** — Personal Data Backup & Recovery](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023/se-004-personal-data-backup-recovery)

## Related controls in ISO/IEC 27701:2025

-   [**Annex A A.3.14** — Protection of records](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-27701-2025/a-3-14-protection-of-records)
-   [**Annex A A.3.6** — Labelling of information](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-27701-2025/a-3-6-labelling-of-information)
-   [**Annex A A.3.5** — Classification of information](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-27701-2025/a-3-5-classification-of-information)
-   [**Annex A A.3.7** — Information transfer](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-27701-2025/a-3-7-information-transfer)
-   [**Annex A A.3.31** — Test information](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-27701-2025/a-3-31-test-information)

## References

-   [ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 — ISO/IEC 27701:2025](https://www.iso.org/standard/85819.html)
-   Catalogue identifier: `Annex A A.3.24`

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