How to evaluate the threats?
As part of your strategic threat evaluation, you should evaluate each of the areas below and estimate the consequences. How long you spend of the evaluation is up to you. It should be based on the risks and rewards facing the organisation and the need to justify the case for investment for your powerful stakeholders.
We’ve identified 12 different threats that you will have to consider. If you would like to see these threats, and assess them in more detail, click here to download our easy-to-use table. An ISMS delivers a positive return on investment. The goal of our whitepaper is to show you why, what, and how you can get RoI from an ISMS that fits the business needs.
Build your business case for an ISMS
What are the key considerations when building the business case for an ISMS?
- Context
- A growing challenge
- Three reasons why nothing happens
- The return on investment from information security management
- A point on people
- In considering the technology
- What is an ISMS?
- What are the components of an ISMS?
- Why do organisations need an ISMS?
- Is your organisation leadership ready to support an ISMS?
- Developing the business case for an ISMS
- Benefits to realise – Achieving returns from the threats and opportunities
- Evaluating the threats
- Identifying the opportunities
- Stakeholder expectations for the ISMS given their relative power and interest
- Scoping the ISMS to satisfy stakeholder interests
- GDPR focused work
- Doing other work for broader security confidence and assurance with higher RoI
- Work to get done for ISO 27001:2013/17
- Build or buy – Considering the best way to achieve ISMS success
- The people involved in the ISMS
- The characteristics of a good technology solution for your ISMS
- Whether to build or buy the technology part of the ISMS
- The core competences of the organisation, costs and opportunity costs
- In conclusion
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