Accelerate Your Growth With Streamlined ISO 27001 Compliance
When it comes to building an ISMS or preparing for an external security audit, having external guidance is invaluable.
Whether you are exploring ISO 27001 compliance for the first time, looking at recertification, or completing it as part of a wider security improvement programme, Toro will support you every step of the way.
If you want a security certification simply to tick a box, Toro are not the partner for you, but if you are ready to embark on a journey of making your business more secure, get in touch with the team today. Toro have a 100% success rate in helping clients acheive ISO 27001.
Why ISO 27001?
🔘 Stay competitive
🔘 Win more deals
🔘 Improves customer confidence
🔘 Improves overall security
🔘 The wholistic nature of ISO 27001 makes it the perfect framework to approach blended security processes and controls across your organisation
What's the Process?
At its core, ISO 27001 is a globally recognised framework designed to help organisations establish, implement, maintain, and continually improve an information security management system.
ISO 27001 includes requirements for managing information assets by considering people, processes, technology, and physical controls. The wholistic nature of ISO 27001 makes it the perfect framework to approach blended security processes and controls across your organisation.
There are lots of different factors that will determine how long it takes such as the size of your organisation, the number and complexity of processes, number of locations and number of employees. You also need to consider the current maturity of your information security capability and the knowledge that exists already within your organisation.
However, we’d typically say that you need to allocate at least 6 – 12 months.
We would recommend treating the certification as a project and managing it this way, whether it is done completely in-house or supported by an ISO 27001 consultant.
You need to complete a full audit every 3 years and surveillance audits need to be done annually.
You need top management ‘buy-in’. A reputable auditor will need to be satisfied that the ISMS is integrated into the wider organisation and not just a siloed initiative being run in isolation.
It depends on your size, complexity, the scope, and the accreditation certification body chosen. The cost of the audit for small businesses starts at £6k whereas larger organisations should expect to pay more.
The cost of implementation, whether you are paying for consultancy support or just internal time and resources should also be factored in.
Altogether small businesses might need to budget £15-20k and larger organisations significantly more than this.
IASME Cyber Assured is the Cyber Essentials equivalent of ISO 27001, looking for processes, policies and procedures that support a system of governance and information security.
Cyber Essentials is the cheapest technical controls framework, but it is far more prescriptive / black & white and can be challenging for some organisations to achieve if your IT is not proactively centrally managed or you do not have a robust and fast patching schedule, especially.