How can ISO 27001 help you comply with SOX section 404
A number of high-profile corporate and accounting scandals collapsed several big players like Enron and WorldCom, and played havoc on...
A number of high-profile corporate and accounting scandals collapsed several big players like Enron and WorldCom, and played havoc on global investment market. In the wake of these scandals, U.S. SOX law was introduced to...
Organizational Resilience – Positioning Against ISO 22301-Based Business Continuity
Approaches and methods to successfully and sustainably run businesses are being rapidly developed. Recently, the term of Organizational Resilience was...
Approaches and methods to successfully and sustainably run businesses are being rapidly developed. Recently, the term of Organizational Resilience was interpreted as being the new expression for the term Business Continuity. According to industry sources,...
European 2017 Revision of ISO/IEC 27001: What has changed?
Released at the beginning of April 2017 by BSI (the British Standards Institution), the standard BS EN ISO/IEC 27001:2017 is...
Released at the beginning of April 2017 by BSI (the British Standards Institution), the standard BS EN ISO/IEC 27001:2017 is a corrigendum over previous standard BS ISO/IEC 27001:2013. It has raised some concern among organizations...
How to perform an ISO 27001 second-party audit of an outsourced supplier
To focus on their core business, many organizations rely on outsourced suppliers to perform support processes. While this approach may...
To focus on their core business, many organizations rely on outsourced suppliers to perform support processes. While this approach may bring benefits like costs savings, and access to expert knowledge and state-of-the-art technology, it can...
How can ISO 27001 and ISO 22301 help with critical infrastructure protection?
The European Council Directive 2008/114/EC of December 8, 2008, is a European Directive for the identification and designation of critical...
The European Council Directive 2008/114/EC of December 8, 2008, is a European Directive for the identification and designation of critical European infrastructures and the assessment of the need to improve their protection. It states: Critical...
ISO 27001 vs. Cyber Essentials: Similarities and differences
In the Internet environment, big, medium, and small businesses all face similar risks, and many regulatory demands enforce information protection,...
In the Internet environment, big, medium, and small businesses all face similar risks, and many regulatory demands enforce information protection, but differences in resources and knowledge often result in data breaches because of the failure...
How to gain employee buy-in when implementing cybersecurity according to ISO 27001
In the majority of organizations, change is embraced by senior management, but feared by employees. In the case of implementing...
In the majority of organizations, change is embraced by senior management, but feared by employees. In the case of implementing ISO 27001, a committed senior management team (SMT) can understand clearly the benefits that an...
Which security clauses to use for supplier agreements?
Running a business on your own these days is practically impossible. Maintaining high levels of performance in every aspect of...
Running a business on your own these days is practically impossible. Maintaining high levels of performance in every aspect of your business to stay competitive means draining precious resources that would be better invested in...
Using ISO 22301 business continuity practices to support mass public events
Managing public events with hundreds or thousands of people is a challenge, as disruptions of these events may result in...
Managing public events with hundreds or thousands of people is a challenge, as disruptions of these events may result in huge material losses or even loss of life. We face the classic situation where disruptions...
Case study: ISO 27001 implementation in an IT system integrator company
For any major change in our lives, whether professional or personal, there are questions that come up before taking the...
For any major change in our lives, whether professional or personal, there are questions that come up before taking the first step. Here are just a few of the questions that you may face before...