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ISO/IEC 27018

Privacy guidance for public-cloud providers acting as processors of personally identifiable information. It complements ISO/IEC 27001 and 27002; it is not a regulation, standalone certification, or claim that ControlFrame is certified.

Edition on record
2025
Edition published
Source last checked

Understand the scope

What the framework covers.

The library records this framework for cloud services, SaaS, technology, all sectors, across global. The issuing authority determines applicability; your assessment scope should identify the organization, systems, services, and edition being assessed.

Areas of requirement

  • PII processing instructions
  • Transparency
  • Data-subject rights support
  • Public-cloud privacy controls

The library tracks the authority and edition. A normalized requirement catalog is not available for this framework, so a requirement count is not stated here.

Source access and licensing

Licensed standard — purchase from ISO or a national member body and obtain software-use rights before verbatim ingestion.

Prepare with context

The evidence behind
the requirements.

Evidence needs to demonstrate how a requirement is met within the assessment scope. Keep the source requirement, collection context, responsible owner, review decision, and period of applicability together.

A framework-specific collection workflow has not been activated. The reference material on this page can inform scoping and preparation; it does not establish evidence collection or assessment readiness.

ControlFrame availability

Framework reference available

Authority and version facts, with a parsed public catalog when available; no tenant blueprint or executable evidence method is activated.

How availability is determined

ISO/IEC 27018 is tracked in the registry — authority, version ledger, verification — and nothing else is modelled for it yet. Import its catalog to begin.

Catalog status: Planned. Tracked metadata: we record the regime and its issuing authority for review. Registry presence does not mean automated monitoring is active. No control or requirement model is implemented.

Metadata only; licensed public-cloud privacy guidance is not ingested, normalized, or released as a product module.

Follow the source

Editions and transitions.

These are the editions recorded in the library, checked August 28, 2026. Confirm the applicable edition with the authority before beginning an assessment.

  • 2025Current edition on record · Replaces 2019
  • 2019Superseded edition
    Publication date not recorded
Recorded change history

· ISO/IEC 27018 2025 supersedes 2019 and is the current edition.

Check the basis

Sources you can follow.

Verified against the issuing authority’s own publication. Source verification was recorded on August 28, 2026.

Catalog provenance and record details

Framework record: iso-27018-2025.

Source artifact: acquisition required.

Parsed catalog: Not ingested.

Control families as published: PII processing instructions · Transparency · Data-subject rights support · Public-cloud privacy controls.

Record last updated: August 28, 2026.

Common questions

A closer look.

What is ISO/IEC 27018?

Privacy guidance for public-cloud providers acting as processors of personally identifiable information. It complements ISO/IEC 27001 and 27002; it is not a regulation, standalone certification, or claim that ControlFrame is certified.

Who does ISO/IEC 27018 apply to?

ISO/IEC 27018 applies to cloud services, SaaS, technology, all sectors, global, per ISO/IEC 27018:2025.

What is the current version of ISO/IEC 27018?

The current edition is 2025, issued by ISO/IEC 27018:2025 and published 2025-08-26. Source: https://www.iso.org/standard/27018.

What does an assessment under ISO/IEC 27018 require?

No control catalog has been ingested for ISO/IEC 27018 yet — the registry tracks it as planned (Tracked metadata: we record the regime and its issuing authority for review. Registry presence does not mean automated monitoring is active. No control or requirement model is implemented), so an assessment under this framework currently requires the authority's own catalog rather than a ControlFrame-parsed one.

At a glance

ISO/IEC 27018

2025

Framework reference
Authority and edition tracked
Evidence preparation
Framework reference available
Source confidence
Primary authority

A framework reference describes requirements. Evidence decisions belong to a scoped assessment and a named reviewer.

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