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This cold Winter’s Monday morning, we woke to problems accessing our server and websites. The usual turnitoffandonagain approach let us down … and this time so has downforeveryoneorjustme dotcom: It’s ironic that a web service purely designed to tel…
Following its exit from the EU, the UK is having to pick up on various important matters that were previously covered by EU laws and regulations. One such issue is to be addressed through a new law on online safety.”Online safety: what’s that?” I hear …
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…
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 …
Thinking about the principles underpinning information risk and security, here’s a tidy little stack of 44 “Hinson tips” – one-liners to set the old brain cells working this chilly mid-Winter morning:Address information confidentiality, integrity and a…