It’s a discussion that I am sure is documented again and again in blogs but when I looked around the office for some simple tasks that could form the basis of a summer-job I was surprised at what I found.…
Calibration When clients ask us to help them implement and maintain a quality management system (ISO 9001) there is one point that polarises opinion. Calibration. Measuring, monitoring, cutting and plotting tools are just some examples of the items that might…
Is it an additional overhead or does it reduce costly incidents? ISO 20000 defines the objective of change management: ”To ensure all changes are assessed, approved, implemented and reviewed in a controlled manner.” It’s important to design a change control process…
The international standard for Information Security ISO 27001 is due for an update this year (2013). entry130813-174453
Social Media has changed how people communicate and express opinions on the internet. In many ways legislation and business is trying to catch up. There are a huge variety of issues to carefully consider around social media, here we look…
Risk Management Consultancy Assent have used twitter to raise awareness of ISO 27001 the Information Security Management System Standard. On 20th May 2013, over the course of the day, Assent’s Lead InfoSec Consultant & Auditor will be tweeting snippets about…
What to do with Risk? You may not have to take action to reduce every risk facing your business or project but there are other risk strategies you can adopt: Reduce The obvious and instinctive action might be to reduce…
1. Gather Information & Make Plans The first step in taking positive action is to gather information about the business. You could look at the number of credit notes issued, cost of outsourced labour, amount of energy used, number of…
It was hard to escape a recent software failure that left customers of several banks unable to view or make transactions online. The fact that so many people and businesses were affected is testament to how essential electronic banking has…
