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DataGuard_ISO27001_Implementation_Roadmap_UK
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DataGuard_ISO27001_Implementation_Roadmap_UK
ISO
27001
ISO 27001
Implementation
Roadmap
How to get (and keep) your certification
ISO 27001 Implementation Roadmap:
How to get (and keep) your certification
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).
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yet the ISO 27001 certification journey is much less daunting if you have a dedicated platform and a reliable
partner to take you through each part of the certification circle.
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