ISO 27001 is the global gold standard for ensuring the security of information known as an Information Security Management System (ISMS).
Information security being a vital priority for any business from an ethical and business standpoint. A cyber breach could jeopardise your curret and futuer revenue, as potential clients may require an ISO 27001 report before working or renewing with your organisation.
ISO 27001 compliance can be simplify this checklist.
- Set the scope of your organisation’s ISMS and which are out of scope.
- Inform stakeholders.
- Implement Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) process to recognise challenges and identify gaps for remediation
- Establish an ISMS governing body and governance team.
- Conduct an inventory of information assets
- Consider all assets where information is stored, processed, and accessible
- Record information assets: data and people
- Record physical assets: laptops, servers, and physical building locations
- Record intangible assets: intellectual property, brand, and reputation
- Assign to each asset a classification and owner responsible for ensuring the asset is appropriately inventoried, classified, protected, and handled
- Establish and document a risk-management framework with a risk register to ensure consistency
- Identify scenarios in which information, systems, or services could be compromised
- Determine likelihood or frequency with which these scenarios could occur
- Evaluate potential impact of each scenario on confidentiality, integrity, or availability of information, systems, and services
- Rank risk scenarios based on overall risk to the organisation’s objectives
- Design a response for each risk (Risk Treatment) Assign an accountable owner to each identified risk, with risk mitigation activities and target dates for completion
- Complete the Statement of Applicability – 114 controls of Annex A of ISO 27001 standard
- Create an Information Security Policy, for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving the ISMS Including Information Security Objectives Leadership and Commitment Roles, Responsibilities, and Authorities Approach to Assessing and Treating Risk, Control of Documented Information, Communication, Internal Audit, Management Review, Corrective Action, and Continual Improvement for Policy Violations
- Establish regular employee training and awareness programs, including common threats, how to respond, disciplinary or sanctions policies.
- Perform an internal audit
- Address any nonconformities
- Conduct annual management reviews with quarterly review cycles
- Perform a full ISO 27001 audit once every three years
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