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Information Handling

What is Information Handling?

The procedures for creating, processing, storing, transmitting, and disposing of information according to its classification and sensitivity.

Information Security

What the standards actually require on information handling

Requirements naming information handling across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

The organisation identifies and documents defined uses and disclosures of personal information collections, describes the purposes in privacy notices and policies, restricts uses and disclosures to those compatible with the purpose or permitted by the Privacy...

canada-itsp-10-033-security-and-privacy-controls-and-assurance-activities-catalogue::PT-03 · PT-03 Personal information handling uses and disclosures →

Develop and maintain processes that make the handling of personal information consistent with the entity's obligations. The processes cover the whole information lifecycle (before collection, after collection, while held and once no longer needed), give extra...

oaic-privacy-management-framework::2.2 · 2.2 Maintain personal information handling processes across the lifecycle →

Providers must strengthen information-content management, establish feature libraries to identify illegal and undesirable information, label or stop transmission, and report illegal information to authorities;

CN-ALG-A9 · Illegal and Harmful Information Handling →

Apply handling rules and sensitivity markings such as the Traffic Light Protocol to shared cyber threat information so recipients understand redistribution constraints.

TIS-5 · Information Handling and Sensitivity Marking →

The Minister may make a code for each regulated sector. A code must be consistent with the principles, may describe reasonable steps and reasonable times, may add duties for certain services and consumers, agents, fees and information handling, and may make it...

australia-scams-prevention-framework-competition-and-consumer-act-2010-part-ivf::s58CC · ss 58CB and 58CC Comply with the sector SPF code once made →

Countries establish a financial intelligence unit as the national centre for receiving and analysing suspicious transaction reports and other information relevant to money laundering, predicate offences and terrorist financing and for disseminating the results...

fatf-40-recommendations::R.29 · R.29 Financial intelligence units →

Questions people ask about information handling

What is Information Handling?
The procedures for creating, processing, storing, transmitting, and disposing of information according to its classification and sensitivity.
Why is Information Handling important for compliance?
Information Handling is a key concept in Information Security. Understanding information handling helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Information Handling?
Information Handling appears in the requirement text of Canada ITSP.10.033 Security and Privacy Controls and Assurance Activities Catalogue, OAIC Privacy Management Framework, Administrative Measures for the Security Assessment of Generative AI Services (2023) and Algorithmic Recommendation Management Provisions (2022), NIST SP 800-150, Australia Scams Prevention Framework (Competition and Consumer Act 2010 Part IVF). Across these standards we have identified 10 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Information Handling?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how information handling applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 1,016 frameworks.

See how Information Handling applies across compliance frameworks

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Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.