ISO 27001: 2022 Foundation First: Why Integration Only Works When the Documents Work

The management system community has spent twenty years perfecting the architecture of integration. It has spent considerably less time asking whether the individual systems were structurally sound before connecting them. This is not integration. It is compression.

ISO 27001:2022 Clause 10.1 Is Not Incident Management

Clause 10.1 requires continual improvement. Incident management lives in Annex A.5.24–5.28. The conflation of the two is the most common structural error in ISO 27001 implementations — and it reveals an ISMS that can repair itself but cannot advance itself.