ISO 27001 Certification has many benefits, time with external auditors can be well spent testing the effectiveness of your Information Security Management System. However, the prospect of increasing the length of an external audit is not likely to be met…
Introduction Introducing any standard to any organisation is always a challenging task. Introducing an Information Security standard to a start-up can be even more tricky. Small size companies, especially start-ups are often at the stage where procedures not robust, well…
As we near the end of another year, I think we would all agree that the events of 2016 were hugely significant; it is a year that will be remembered and studied for generations to come. There have been political,…
The increasingly popular BS 10500 Anti-Bribery Standard has progressed to International level with with release of ISO 37001 in October 2016. 20 national delegations from the five continents contributed to the development of the new ISO standard. Annex SL and…
The long awaited International standard for Occupational Health and Safety ISO 45001, which was expected to be published in 2016, is now looking unlikely before December 2017, which is switching organisations off the ISO standard, in favour of the established…
It has long been an established convention that an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) is required to protect servers and networking equipment in the event of power outages. IT Managers spent their time monitoring the battery health and load to ensure…
Over the first weekend of April 2016 news began to emerge of another data leak. However this one seemed different, the media were already reporting it as the biggest data leak in history and there appeared to be implications for…
It has been eight years since the British Standard for Occupational Health & Safety Management (OHSAS 18001) was last revised.In the absence of an international standard, OHSAS 18001 has gained a strong position in the certification market both in the…
Following the break down of the Safe Harbour Agreement last October (2015), it looked difficult for EU and US authorities to agree a new deal to ensure adequate safe guards for personal data transferred and processed in the US. Despite…
