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Learn the ropes of obtaining and maintaining the ISO 27001 certification. From gap analysis to risk management, this guide is a must-have for Heads of IT looking to get officially certified. Download the roadmap (no contact details needed) or read it all below.
A clear plan makes the road to ISO 27001 certification much less daunting. Use DataGuard’s implementation roadmap as your guiding star to get and stay certified.
We keep saying “get and maintain” your ISO 27001 certification, and for good reason. See this process as a constant exercise because getting ISO 27001 certified is just one checkpoint in the overarching information security certification journey.
Your organisation is a living organism – strategies and processes shift, you add new assets, purchase new software or start new partnerships. Your information security status changes, exposing you to new threats.
So even after you’ve achieved the certification, regularly review your Information Security Management System (ISMS), monitor assets and risks, and check whether applicable controls are in place. This will help keep your information secure and ready for unforeseen cyberattacks and ensure you are fully prepared to re-certify when it comes to it (see illustration below).
On the road to ISO 27001 certification, every stop is important, be it a gap analysis or an internal audit as a rehearsal for the external.
Every part plays a role in preparing and maintaining your ISMS so it meets the ISO 27001 guidelines. Throughout the years, we’ve helped companies in various industries achieve their ISO 27001 certification. We kick things off with a gap analysis.
To protect your assets, you need to know where your weaknesses lie.
Consider gap analysis a litmus test to assess your organisation’s information security status. It helps evaluate your business and identify which necessary processes and security measures you already have in place and which ones you might need to add. Gap analysis provides a holistic view of how well your setup fits the ISO 27001 security standard and what changes need to be made to prepare for the external audit (more on this later).
To conduct gap analysis in your company, we start with simple self-paced questionnaires. Once you provide the answers, your DataGuard expert will help prepare a project plan to improve your information security maturity.
Stay organised from the get-go.
What digital information in your organisation needs protection? Or, in other words, what’s at stake? In this ISO 27001 certification phase, you review and organise all your information assets, especially those that need extra protection.
Review and manage all your digital information, including who has access to it. This way, you’ll gain a complete overview, and it’ll be easier to figure out what security steps are needed to keep those assets safe and sound.
We give you a platform for asset management. All your information assets that require protection are under one roof, and we help you take care of it. You can import existing assets or create new ones in one centralised space.
Risk management is a systematic approach to safeguarding your organisation's data and digital infrastructure.
This is where you identify and track any risks affecting your company’s information security.
Identifying risks can be difficult if you're doing it for the first time or don’t know much about the process. We help identify and track any risks affecting your company’s information security goals in one platform. No prior risk management knowledge is needed - our experts, videos and guides support you throughout. Plus, you can review your existing risks on dashboards in real-time.
As you progress to ISO 27001 certification, you’ll need proper documentation to support security policies and procedures. This will also help you stay organised.
Access any ready-to-use templates for policies and procedures on our platform—no more tedious manual work of creating everything from scratch. Plus, our experts will help you review the documents to ensure their audit readiness.
Continuously educate employees and stakeholders about security policies and best practices to enhance overall information security awareness.
You can enrol your employees in our on-demand security training courses via DataGuard Academy, an interactive e-learning feature on our platform. The courses cover basic GDPR, information security training, and specialised topics such as phishing, incident response and AI.
Consider your internal audit a rehearsal before the external one.
An external auditor assesses your ISMS in safeguarding sensitive information, managing risks, and ensuring compliance with the ISO 27001 requirements. While an external audit is conducted by an accredited certification body (CB), an internal audit is run by you independently, unless you collaborate with a partner like DataGuard.
We take the stress of running the internal audit off your hands. Our experts help run an internal audit for you to ensure you have all the policies, controls and processes to pass the external audit. To date, our clients have a 100% first-try external audit pass rate.
Complying with ISO 27001 standards doesn’t end with getting officially certified after a successful external audit.
As new risks arise or your organisation changes, you must continuously review and adjust your information security efforts where needed to maintain the certification.
We help update your assets, mitigate risks, conduct employee training, ensure policies and controls are up to date, and ultimately prepare your organisation for annual surveillance audits.
Prepare for the ISO 27001:2022 audit now with up to 75% less work and successfully achieve certification.
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