ISO 27001 Compliance Archive
The SoA (Statement of Applicability) is one of the key documents when it comes to ISO 27001 compliance. It identifies the controls you have selected to address information security risks, explains why those controls have been selected, states whether they’ve …
Are you part of an in-house finance team? Or do you work for a finance provider – an accountancy firm, perhaps, or a financial advisory company? Like professionals in any other sector, you are subject to the EU’s GDPR (General …
Robust information compliance has never been so high-profile. The introduction of the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) in May 2018 put personal data protection firmly in the public consciousness. Cybercrime continues to grab headlines, with attacks causing massive disruption …
According to the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office), more than 14,000 data breaches were logged in the first year since the introduction of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), which is almost four times the number reported in 2017/18. Every month …
Last November, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told NHS chiefs: “If you haven’t got your CIO on board then you need to be asking serious questions of yourself.” Hancock argued that CIOs were vital to developing the necessary systems and …
Have you ever wondered whether your organisation should become certified to ISO 27001? ISO 27001 provides the specification for an effective ISMS (information security management system) – a framework that offers a structured, comprehensive approach to managing information security risks. …
Data breaches are one of the biggest threat to organisations today. They can bring operations to a grinding halt, drastically damage your reputation and your relationship with customers, and cause severe financial losses from lost sales, remediation and repair costs, …
Digital disruption has long made its presence felt in the retail banking sector. A series of challenger brands have launched in recent years, building innovative and intuitive digital interfaces from the ground up and in some cases forgoing physical premises …
For many people, the prospect of conducting a risk assessment is daunting. Inexperienced assessors often rely on spreadsheets, spending hours interviewing people in their organisation, exchanging documents and methodologies with other departments and filling in data. After all that, they’ll …
Organisations that believe they can ignore cyber risk management and the benefits it offers will probably lose out as others adopt more efficient, more economical, less human-resource-intensive solutions. For effective cyber risk management, an organisation needs a thorough understanding of the …
