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How Cytix Helps You Achieve ISO 27001:2022 Compliance

ISO 27001:2022 provides a comprehensive framework for establishing, implementing, and maintaining an information security management system (ISMS). With its updated requirements for secure development practices and vulnerability management, organisations must embed security throughout their development lifecycle to demonstrate compliance.

8 min

Cytix Security Team

Playbook

How Cytix Helps You Achieve ISO 27001:2022 Compliance

ISO 27001:2022 provides a comprehensive framework for establishing, implementing, and maintaining an information security management system (ISMS). With its updated requirements for secure development practices and vulnerability management, organisations must embed security throughout their development lifecycle to demonstrate compliance.

8 min

Cytix Security Team

Playbook

How Cytix Helps You Achieve ISO 27001:2022 Compliance

ISO 27001:2022 provides a comprehensive framework for establishing, implementing, and maintaining an information security management system (ISMS). With its updated requirements for secure development practices and vulnerability management, organisations must embed security throughout their development lifecycle to demonstrate compliance.

8 min

Cytix Security Team

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Operationalising ISO 27001:2022 in Your Development Lifecycle

Cytix makes this process simple. By embedding security directly into software development workflows, Cytix continuously identifies vulnerabilities, validates security requirements, and maintains comprehensive audit trails of all security assessments and decisions. This enables organisations to demonstrate measurable adherence to ISO 27001:2022 requirements, particularly within development security clauses.

ISO 27001:2022 Control Coverage & Cytix Capabilities

Below is a detailed breakdown of how Cytix maps to key controls within ISO 27001:2022, helping you operationalize and demonstrate compliance for critical security requirements.

ISO 27001:2022 Control Coverage Matrix: How Cytix Maps to Critical Information Security Controls

Clause

Requirement

Coverage

How Cytix Maps

5.8

Information security shall be integrated into project management

Complete

Cytix embeds automated security reviews and testing checkpoints into development and project workflows (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps), ensuring that each change or project task includes a security assessment

8.8

Information about technical vulnerabilities of information systems in use shall be obtained, the organization's exposure to such vulnerabilities shall be evaluated and appropriate measures shall be taken

Partial

Cytix automatically identifies vulnerabilities introduced by code or configuration changes and provides targeted security testing to validate fixes

8.25

Rules for the secure development of software and systems shall be established and applied

Partial

Cytix enforces secure-development practices by embedding security reviews, threat modeling, and testing into the SDLC

8.26

Information security requirements shall be identified, specified, and approved when developing or acquiring applications

Partial

Cytix helps identify and validate security requirements at the change level through automated threat modeling and risk analysis, providing traceability and documentation to support requirement approval

8.29

Secure testing processes shall be defined and implemented in the development life cycle

Complete

Cytix automatically generates and executes security testing plans tailored to each change, provides fully continuous testing, and maintains auditable test evidence

8.32

Changes to information processing facilities and information systems shall be subject to change management procedures

Partial

Cytix integrates directly with change-management systems, ensuring every change is reviewed for security risk and validated before deployment

Coverage Legend

Complete

Fully supported by Cytix capabilities

Partial

Partially supported with noted limitations

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© 2026 Cytix Ltd. All rights reserved.

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© 2026 Cytix Ltd. All rights reserved.