ISO 27001
Secure Your Information
ISO 27001 is the gold standard for information security management systems (ISMS).
For businesses like yours, achieving ISO 27001 certification demonstrates a commitment to protecting sensitive data, enhancing trust with clients, and gaining a competitive edge in the auditing and assurance industry.
Let Tickbox guide you through the process.
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Our team combines ISO 27001 lead auditor expertise with broad experience across IT, information security, data, cloud and business systems to support organisations across the UK.
Gap Assessment
Understand your current position against ISO 27001 with a practical review of your controls, documentation and key processes.
- Review of your current policies, procedures and evidence
- Identification of gaps against ISO 27001 requirements
- Clear, prioritised next steps to support implementation
Implementation Support
We help you move from assessment to action with practical support to implement the controls, documentation and improvements needed for ISO 27001.
- Tailored implementation plan based on your current gaps and priorities
- Support with policies, procedures, controls and supporting evidence
- Practical guidance to help you progress efficiently towards certification readiness
Internal Audit
ISO 27001 requires organisations to carry out internal audits at planned intervals. We provide independent internal audits to assess your ISMS, test the effectiveness of controls, and help you prepare for certification or ongoing surveillance activity.
- Independent audit of your ISMS, controls and supporting evidence
- Clear reporting on nonconformities, observations and improvement opportunities
- Flexible delivery aligned to your audit programme and certification timetable
Transition to ISO 27001:2022
Move to ISO 27001:2022 with practical support to review changes, address gaps and update your ISMS, controls and documentation.
- Review of your current position against ISO 27001:2022 requirements
- Support to update policies, controls, documentation and evidence
- Practical guidance to help you prepare for transition and ongoing compliance
Frequently Asked Questions
ISO/IEC 27001 certification shows that an organisation has implemented an information security management system (ISMS) designed to manage information security risks in a structured, repeatable and continually improving way. It is an internationally recognised standard used by organisations of all sizes to protect information and demonstrate good security governance.
ISO/IEC 27001 takes a broad approach to information security, covering people, policies, processes and technology rather than focusing on IT controls alone. The standard sets requirements across clauses 4 to 10, including organisational context, leadership, planning, support, operation, performance evaluation and improvement.
The standard also includes Annex A, which in the current 2022 edition contains 93 controls grouped into four themes: organisational, people, physical and technological. These controls help organisations select and apply safeguards appropriate to their risks.
Achieving certification helps demonstrate to customers, partners and other stakeholders that your organisation takes information security seriously and has a recognised framework in place to manage it effectively. Certification itself is carried out by an accredited certification body, while the standard provides the requirements your ISMS must meet.
ISO 27001 helps organisations protect sensitive information, manage security risks more effectively and demonstrate a recognised commitment to information security. It can strengthen trust, support compliance, improve resilience and give organisations an advantage in customer due diligence, procurement and supply chain assurance.
- Protect sensitive information and reduce security risk
- Build trust with customers, partners and suppliers
- Support compliance and improve governance
- Strengthen resilience and continuous improvement
- Support growth, tenders and supplier assurance
An ISMS, or Information Security Management System, is the framework an organisation uses to manage information security risks. It brings together the policies, processes, controls and responsibilities needed to protect information across people, processes and technology, and to support confidentiality, integrity and availability.
The cost of ISO 27001 certification depends on factors such as the size and complexity of your organisation, your current level of maturity, and how much work is needed to become certification-ready. Starting with a gap assessment can help identify what is already in place, what needs attention, and the most efficient path forward.
ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials both support better security, but they are not the same. ISO/IEC 27001 is an internationally recognised standard for establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually improving an information security management system (ISMS). Cyber Essentials is a UK government-backed scheme focused on five technical controls designed to help protect against common internet-based attacks.
ISO 27001 takes a broader, risk-based approach across people, processes and technology, with the organisation defining how it identifies, assesses and treats information security risk. Cyber Essentials is narrower and more prescriptive, concentrating on technical baseline controls for IT infrastructure.
In practice, ISO 27001 is usually broader in scope, takes longer to implement, and is certified through an accredited certification audit process. Cyber Essentials is typically quicker and lower cost to achieve, with certification renewed every 12 months.
ISO 27001 is recognised internationally. Cyber Essentials is primarily a UK scheme, and an up-to-date Cyber Essentials certificate is required for some UK central government contracts involving certain types of personal information handling or ICT products and services.