What to Do If You Fail Cyber Essentials: A Practical Guide for SMEs
Failing your Cyber Essentials certification can feel like a setback, but it is a common part of the journey for many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The good news is…
The international standard for information security sets out the specification for an ISMS (Information Security Management System) that helps organisations manage their information security by addressing people, processes and technology. The ISO 27001.
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An ISMS helps protect all forms of information, including digital, paper-based, intellectual property, company secrets, data on devices and in the Cloud, hard copies and personal information.
Implementing and maintaining an ISMS will significantly increase your organisation’s resilience to cyber attacks.
Thanks to the risk assessment and analysis approach of an ISMS, organisations can reduce costs spent on indiscriminately adding layers of defensive technology that might not work.
Constantly adapting to changes both in the environment and inside the organisation, an ISMS reduces the threat of continually evolving risks.
The Standard’s holistic approach covers the whole organisation, not just IT, and encompasses people, processes and technology. This enables employees to readily understand risks and embrace security controls as part of their everyday working practices.
An ISMS protects your entire organisation from technology-based risks and other, more common threats, such as poorly informed staff or ineffective procedures.
An ISMS provides a framework for keeping your organisation’s information safe and managing it all in one place.
An ISMS offers a set of policies, procedures, technical and physical controls to protect the confidentiality, availability and integrity of information.

ISO management system standards (MSS) help businesses improve their performance by specifying repeatable steps that can be consciously implemented to achieve goals and objectives, and to create an organisational culture that reflexively engages in a continuous cycle of self-evaluation, correction and improvement of operations and processes through heightened employee awareness and management leadership and commitment.
This can lead to not only improved financial performance but also an improved risk management and protection of people and the environment, an increased capability to deliver consistent and improved services and products, thereby increasing value to customers and all other stakeholders.
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