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This morning I bumped into a marketing/promotional piece announcing PageProof’s certified “compliance” (conformity!) with “ISO 27001” (ISO/IEC 27001!). Naturally, they take the opportunity to mention that information security is an integral part of the…
While arguably better than
nothing at all, an unstructured approach to the management of information security results in organisations adopting a jumble, a
mixed bag of controls with no clear focus or priorities and – often –
glaring holes in the ar…
In the context of the ISO management systems standards, the internal audit process and accredited
certification systems as a whole, are assurance controls primarily intended to confirm that organisations’ management systems conform to the explicit requ…
Having put it off for far too long, I’m belatedly trying to catch up with some standards work in the area of Root of Trust, which for me meant starting with the basics, studying simple introductory articles about RoT.As far as I can tell so far, RoT i…
Compliance is a concern that pops up repeatedly on the ISO27k Forum, just this morning for instance. Intrigued by ISO 27001 Annex A control A.18.1.1 “Identification of applicable legislation and contractual requirements”, members generally ask wh…
News emerged during June of likely further delays to the publication of the third edition of ISO/IEC 27001, this time due to the need to re-align the main body clauses with ISO’s revised management systems template (specfically, the 2022 edition of the…
Control 5.9 in ISO/IEC 27002:2022 recommends an inventory of information assets that should be “accurate, up to date, consistent and aligned with other inventories”. Fair enough, but what are ‘information assets’? What, exactly, are we suppo…
Inspired by an exchange on the ISO27k Forum yesterday morning, I wrote and published a simple 2-page exemptions policy template for SecAware. In essence, after explaining what ‘exemptions’ are, the policy requires that they are authorised after du…
Although the
organisational/business context is clearly relevant and important to information risk and
security management, it is tricky to describe. In my opinion, clause 4 of ISO/IEC 27001 is so succinct that it leaves readers perplexed as to …
For some curious reason, the Statement of Applicability steals the limelight in the ISO27k world, despite being little more than a formality. Having recently blogged about the dreaded SoA, ’nuff said on that.Today I’m picking up on the SoA’s shy …