SureCloud adds ISO 27001 functionality to compliance SaaS
August 9, 2013
Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Rene Millman.
SureCloud has added IT process automation functionality to its compliance Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering in a bid to help organisations more easily meet their ISO 27001 compliance obligations. The company said one of the main barriers to more widespread adoption of ISO 27001 is that often organisations do not possess the in-house knowledge and expertise, nor do they know where to start. ISO 27001 is the recognised industry standard for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining and improving an Information Security Management System (ISMS).
SureCloud pointed to the 2013 Information Security Breaches Survey from the Department of Business Innovation & Skills survey which found that only 25 per cent of respondents have fully implemented ISO 27001, and a similar number haven’t started nor do they intend to…
The organisation has added process support for ISO 27001 to its GRC platform. Described by SureCloud as “ISO 27001-in-a-box,” the service automates the entire process of establishing, managing and monitoring an ISMS. This not only includes processes to establish the ISMS such as asset management, information classification, risk assessment and risk treatment, but also processes to support ISO 27001 controls, such as third party management, end user provisioning and incident response…
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