# ISO/IEC 27701:2025 A.3.9 — Access rights

- Source: https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-27701-2025/a-3-9-access-rights
- 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
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**ISO/IEC 27701:2025**·Annex A `A.3.9`·high·Component: **Security considerations**

## What this control requires

> Provision, review, modify and remove access rights per policy. Implementation: Implement access provisioning and periodic review processes. Justification: Limits unauthorized access to PII.
> 
> — ISO/IEC 27701:2025, Annex A A.3.9

### In plain English

Provision, review, modify and remove access rights per policy. In practice, this means you can prove you implement access rights-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.3.9) 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

-   **Implement.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence.
-   **Review.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence.
-   **Limit.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence.
-   **Scope:** access rights.

## Evidence to collect

-   **Identity Scan.** IAM / IdP exports — Entra ID, Okta, IAM Identity Center, Workspace directory — showing accounts, roles, MFA state and last sign-in.
-   **Policy Document.** A signed and version-controlled policy / standard / procedure document.

Signed policies, procedures, and registers document the safeguard. IAM analytics confirm RBAC, MFA, and access reviews. Focus: Access rights.

## 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.

-   [**ISO/IEC 27001:2022 A.8.2** — Privileged access rights](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-27001-2022/a-8-2-privileged-access-rights)
-   [**BSI C5:2020 IDM-01** — Policy for user accounts and access rights](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/bsi-c5-2020/idm-01-policy-for-user-accounts-and-access-rights)
-   [**SOC 2 (2017 TSC) CC6.2** — Access Provisioning](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/soc-2-trust-services-criteria/cc6-2-access-provisioning)
-   [**GDPR Article 12** — Transparent information, communication and modalities for the exercise of the rights of the data subject](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/gdpr/article-12-transparent-information-communication-and-modalities-for-the-exercise-of-the)
-   [**NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 AC-6(6)** — Privileged Access By Non-Organizational Users](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/nist-sp-800-53-rev-5/ac-6-6-privileged-access-by-non-organizational-users)

## Related controls in ISO/IEC 27701:2025

-   [**Annex A A.3.8** — Identity management](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-27701-2025/a-3-8-identity-management)
-   [**Annex A A.3.23** — Secure authentication](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-27701-2025/a-3-23-secure-authentication)

## References

-   [ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 — ISO/IEC 27701:2025](https://www.iso.org/standard/85819.html)
-   Catalogue identifier: `Annex A A.3.9`

Topics: identity accessprivileged accessaccess reviewidentity management