Understanding the environment our ISMS lives in

Determining the internal and external issues of the organisation is the very first step in designing and implementing an ISMS. In this post we provide an overview of popular methods, and a concrete example of extracting security-relevant context from them.

What is information security, and why does it matter?

Every organisation has its own reasons for protecting information, shaped by what it does, who it serves, and what it is trying to achieve. In this post we look at why information security matters now more than ever.