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Access Management: an introduction
You can have the best firewalls and the tightest encryption, but if your data bucket is openly reachable online or a former contractor’s account is still active after years, these technological controls are not really protecting you. Indeed, broken access control and security misconfiguration stay the two top risks for web apps. This is where…
Pavlo Burda
A basic risk management method for information security
One of the requirements for good information security is to have a method for risk identification and assessment. This article describes one simple and practical method that can be used by any organisation. This page is part of a series on ISO 27001 controls and our free ISO27001 and GDPR templates.
Sieuwert van Otterloo
ICT Institute is now a Vanta partner: what users told us
ICT Institute has joined the Vanta partner programme. For our clients – companies working towards ISO 27001 – this means we can now combine our hands-on ISMS work (scoping, risk workshops, internal audits) with a compliance platform that takes a lot of the grind out of collecting evidence and keeping controls alive throughout the year.
Pavlo Burda
The ISO 27001 Harmonized Structure
In this article, we walk through the Harmonized Structure of the ISO 27001 (Chapters 4-10) and explain how to implement it using the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle. This will be the basis for your Information Security Management System (ISMS) according to the standard. The “engine” of the ISMS: Chapters 4 to 10 ISO 27001 is structured…
Pavlo Burda
Supplier management in ISO 27001
Since suppliers often have access to information assets that are critical to business operations, the ISO 27001 standard dedicates a full set of organizational controls (5.19–5.23) to managing information security risks in supplier relationships. In this article, we explain these controls and provide a supplier register template.
Pavlo Burda