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The business benefits of developing an information security strategy and accompanying security architecture/design include: Being proactive, taking the lead in this area – more puppeteer than puppet; Designing a framework or structure to support t…
A glossy, nicely-constructed and detailed PowerPoint slide deck by Microsoft Security caught my beady this morning. The title ‘CISO Workshop: Security Program and Strategy’ with ‘Your Name Here’ suggests it might be a template for use in a workshop/cou…
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…
Prompted by some valuable customer feedback earlier this week, I’ve been thinking about how best to update the SecAware policy template on software/systems development. The customer is apparently seeking guidance on integrating infosec into the develop…
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…
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 …
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…