ISO/IEC 27018 2019 Standard

This standard establishes widely accepted control objectives, controls and guidelines for implementing measures to protect personally identifiable information (PII), in line with the privacy principles in ISO/IEC 29100 for the public Cloud computing environment.

The document provides guidelines based on ISO/IEC 27002 and considering the regulatory requirements for the protection of PII, which can be applied within the context of the information security risk environment of a provider of public cloud services.

This document can be applied to all types and sizes of organisations, including public and private companies, government entities and not-for-profit organisations, which provide information processing services as PII processors via cloud computing under contract to other organisations.

The guidelines in this document are also relevant to organisations acting as PII controllers. Please note that PII controllers can be subject to additional PII protection legislation, regulations and obligations, not applying to PII processors. This document is not intended to cover such additional obligations.