Information Security Management

The ISO 27001 Standard is globally recognised to help organisations manage their Information Security controls. This certification can be applied to companies of all sizes in the private sector, but also to universities, charities, and public sector organisations. Achieving a UKAS-accredited certification to ISO 27001 provides independent assurance to your existing and potential customers and other interested parties that you have appropriate confidentiality, integrity and availability controls in place. It can also give you that vital edge over your competitors.

Siguiente consultants will review your organisation’s current Information Security Management processes against the requirements of ISO 27001, and work with you to develop a plan and implement the necessary controls to achieve compliance and if required, our consultants will then assist you in achieving a UKAS-accredited certification.

• A core requirement for ‘doing business’ in both public and private sector customers
• Independently verifies that your organisational risks are properly identified, assessed and managed
• Shows stakeholders the good governance controls and best practice processes implemented within your organisation.
• Vital for investments that are based on risk assessment of relevant assets
• Allows employees to fulfil contractual, legislative and company-specific security management responsibilities
• Demonstrates secure communications and data handling credentials
• Provides a framework for further development of management systems and for meeting future regulatory requirements

Siguiente’s ISO 27001 consultants will review your organisation’s current management processes and work with you to develop a plan and implement the necessary controls to achieve compliance. If required, our consultants will then assist you in ultimately achieving a UKAS-accredited ISO 27001 certification.

Are you considering achieving combined certifications for ISO 27001 alongside other Standards such as ISO 9001 Quality or ISO 20000 IT Service Management for example? Do you already have certification to other ISO Standards and want to integrate ISO 27001 requirements with them? Siguiente consultants specialise in this combined approach, that is, implementing Integrated Management Systems.

For organisations that need to achieve two or more ISO standards, there are significant advantages in implementing these standards in parallel rather than taking a phased approach, in particular, the internal and external incremental costs can be significantly reduced. There are also significant resource economies to be achieved with projects addressing multiple ISO standards e.g. one gap analysis, one implementation programme, less potential for duplication and more effective integration of your management systems. Maintenance of an integrated management system is also more efficient in terms of audits, management review, documentation, and continued assessment.

The confidentiality, availability and integrity of information are critical to the operation and survival of businesses. Whilst organisations believe they clearly understand the risks they face, only a small subsection formally assesses those risks, resulting in companies that may be insecure with expenditure in technology and information security either too low or not targeted at the important risks. Siguiente ISO 27001 consultants will conduct reviews of security threats and vulnerabilities within your organisation’s systems and examine their potential business impact. These will not only relate to IT but will encompass all sensitive and mission-critical information held within your business.

Siguiente can then help your organisation to implement an ISO 27001 compliant information security management system ensuring the selection of adequate and proportionate security controls and helps your organisation to protect your information assets and those of your customers and partners.

• Ahead of embarking on a certification, you may be looking to seek a posture assessment. Siguiente can support you in conducting a posture assessment against the following:-
  • ISO 27001 – Information Technology Security Techniques – (ISMS)
  • ISO 27017 – Information Technology Code of Practice (Cloud Services)
  • ISO 27018 – Information Technology Code of Practice (PII) in Public Cloud
  • ISO 27001 Gap Analysis 

To find out more about our ISO 27001 certification process, please click here

If you already have ISO 27001 certification, please click here to find out more about how we can help you maintain and improve your existing management system.

In addition to ISO 27001 consultancy, we also provide a comprehensive service to assist organisations in achieving compliance and certification with the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) including QSA Assessments, Cyber Essentials, DSP Toolkit submissions (for NHS Partners), Supply Chain Security Audits and Assessments, GDPR and Data Protection Consultancy and Physical Security Assessments.

Our knowledge and experience across a broad base of management and technical Standards make us uniquely equipped to help organisations to develop an information security management system and integrate with existing management systems to achieve all the associated economies and efficiencies in the system design, implementation and maintenance.

Since 2007, Siguiente consultants have been instilling absolute quality into the delivery processes of many organisations, from SMEs to large corporates. Our team of qualified professionals including CISSP, PCI Security Standards Council QSA, MBCI, GDPR, IEMA, ESOS and CMIOSH qualified consultants) have developed and led UKAS accredited ISO and other standards-based service improvement programmes for private and public-sector organisations across the UK, EMEA, US and beyond, from 5 to over 20,000 people businesses.

Our knowledge and experience across a broad base of management and technical Standards make us uniquely equipped to help organisations to develop an information security management system and integrate with existing management systems to achieve all the associated economies and efficiencies in the system design, implementation and maintenance.

This experience, and the huge success of both the project delivery and maintenance phases of our standards-based practices, has been firmly based on two key principles: the ability of Siguiente consultants to look beyond the standard in question and identify, define and align with the real business drivers of our customers, and our innate ability to become one with our customer’s own management teams.

Our team of experienced information security consultants have helped an extensive array of organisations achieve ISO 27001 certification as part of a standalone ISO 27001 ISMS implementation or alongside other ISO and information security standards such as Cyber Essentials and PCI DSS. These organisations range from SMEs to large corporates as well as public and charitable organisations. To see some of our ISO 27001 clients, please visit our ‘Clients’ page.