If you ask Mark Graham, our ISO Standards head, about the benefits of ISO 27001, there’s one point he always ends up making. ISO 27001, and in fact the whole ISO 27000 family, are about far more than just information security. They’ll help you: Run your organisation...
Many professional learnings are only really useful in the business world. But there’s one principle that helps me in every part of my life, from getting the kids to school every morning to planning that dream post-Covid holiday. It’s this: Assumption is the mother of...
Introducing Asset Inventory You have to create an inventory of your organisation’s information assets to: Build an effective Information Security Management System (ISMS) Achieve ISO 27001 compliance or certification When we talk about information assets we find that...
ISO 27001 is all about information security. So people usually think it’s IT focussed. Up to a point, that’s true. But working through the standard can have much wider implications. We see it as a way of fine tuning your whole organisation’s way of working. ...
Halloween’s here, the spookiest time of year. That set us thinking about our favourite monsters. They have a lot in common with the infosec challenges we help our clients face and defeat.
#04 Frankenstein’s monster: A mad scientist in a castle, building a person from spare parts. What could possibly go wrong?
#32 Zombie horde: Zombies are unstoppable. They just keep coming and coming. There are far too many to fight off. You’ve just got to wait them out.
#18 Werewolf: The thing about werewolves is that you always know when they’re going to pop up. Every full moon, regular as clockwork, there’s some hairy, toothy wolfman on the prowl.
#12 Phantom: Unfinished business in the past leads to undead creatures bothering the present. That’s your average phantom for you. They’re pretty unsettling until you realise what they’re trying to tell you.
#21 Vampire: Vampires are terrifying. But they’re also charming. That’s because most of them can only enter your house if you invite them in.