The Simplicity Behind Compliance: How ISMS.online Transforms User Behaviour

In a world where data security is becoming increasingly important, more and more businesses are realising the challenges of ensuring compliance and shaping user behaviour. The safety of an organisation’s information is only as safe as the compliance of each user. It feels like every day, we see a new article about a recent data breach or phishing attack. With this in mind, you might be asking the following questions: 

• How can I adequately create policies? 
• How can I ensure my staff and suppliers are compliant? 
• How can I keep data security at the forefront of my organisation?  
• But most of all, you might wonder, how can I keep this simple? 

We believe that good data security doesn’t have to be complicated. First, we provide you with a fully templated information security policy out of the box. Once this is completed to fit your organisation, our policy packs feature allows you to collate these policies and easily send them to your users and suppliers via the platform. You can also update these policies anytime, allowing you to make essential changes and be assured that your users will not just become compliant but stay compliant.  

That’s not all. The platform also allows you to track user compliance in real-time. The dashboard informs you who has read and complied with any policy in the pack and when. You are also provided with the option to send follow-up tasks and reminders to individuals who have not yet shown compliance.  

 Seamless Integration with Company Workflow 

As mentioned earlier, we provide an out-of-the-box information security management system. This means that even if you are at the very beginning of your information security journey, we provide you with an 81% head start. We also provide you with a 24/7 virtual coach to offer you specialist advice every step of the way. 

We are a SaaS compliance solution that not only can help you begin your journey but help to simplify, compliment, and optimise your existing business processes. For example, if you already have information management documents, you can easily upload these to the platform using the documents section found in every area of the platform. Using our integrations feature, you can also upload these documents from your Onedrive, Google Drive and over 5,000 other platform integrations.  

“The most useful areas of the system were the Policies and Controls, Policy Packs, and Virtual Coach. The templates for the policies and controls significantly reduced the time it took to write our new policies.” 

CHRIS WILLIAMSON, CISA, CDPSE 

CHIEF INFORMATION SECURITY OFFICER, MCCONNELL JONES 

As part of our compliance solutions service, we also offer an import for all your existing risks, assets, suppliers and policies into the platform- allowing you to hit the ground running. Our platform provides customisation on various areas of the platform, so you can easily find a way that compliments your existing processes: 

• You can customise the risk map we provide to match your existing methodology 
• In most areas of the platform, you can add custom categories to be able to add and filter items according to your needs 
• We offer frameworks for you to build your own projects as needed and the ability to create a fully custom project for any purpose 

We understand that it is important that your existing business processes remain intact to make ensuring business user behaviour optimisation as simple as possible. The support we offer from your dedicated Customer Success Manager, as well as our support team, is there to assist you in making sure your journey with us goes as smoothly as possible. 

The Efficiency of the Setup Process 

Our out-of-the-box SaaS platform makes setting up very simple and provides a robust security foundation from the beginning. From setup, you are provided with the following: 

• An ISO 27001 project complete with head start content, meaning it is already 81% complete 
• A risk management tool, complete with a risk bank with pre-defined risks as well as links to the relevant controls in ISO 27001 
• An applicable legislation management tool 
• An asset management tracker 
• A corrective actions and improvements track 
• An audit programme filled out with a proposed internal and external audit schedule 
• Management review board project 

“These pre-defined “banks” of information, for example, risks, interested parties, or asset register types that you can look at, select, add and tweak save SO much time. Trying to think of all of these oneself would take months.” 

YASMEEN FROST

HEAD OF DELIVERY, MIRACL 

We also provide an ARM module. ARM is our Assured Results Method and offers a roadmap from beginning to certification. It provides a step-by-step guide on navigating the platform and getting your ISMS up and running as soon as possible.   

Once your policies are completed on the platform, you can use our policy packs feature to quickly create and collate the policies you need and send them to the relevant users and suppliers.  

All of this means there is no extensive training or change management process needed as you can seamlessly carry your work over, as well as simplify the processes already in place. 

“ISMS.online is not only an expert in their field, but they are fast, efficient, and cost-effective. Their platform takes out a lot of the hard work, and as they have a proven track record delivering this certification for many clients in the past, there are very few unknowns and surprises to deal with.” 

ANDREW CONWAY 

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, XERGY – PROTEUS 

Transforming User Behaviour 

Our SaaS compliance solution does not just make it easier to set up and maintain your ISMS; it helps to guide user behaviour management positively. Because of the platform’s simplicity, it helps guide you in navigating your work in a way that is compliant and keeps information security at the forefront of your mind. 

You can assign users roles on the platform that dictate their permissions; for example, if they are platform administrators, they can add and amend users. Each work area within the platform has its own team where you can assign the permissions for that specific area. This makes it easy to ensure that users can only access or edit areas that you have assigned them.  

Work areas also have a built-in workflow; for example, when reviewing a policy, asset, or scoring, you will automatically be prompted to set a new review date. This helps your users to ensure that all your information is kept up to date. These workflows exist in all platform areas and remind users to add and maintain information with various standards in mind. 

We also offer a to-do feature in the platform in every work area; this allows you to easily assign tasks to any person with a due date set to ensure the work you need is completed on time. These to-do tasks are also available within policy packs as an added function to ensure you confirm compliance with your policies.  

Driving Desirable Behaviours with Ease 

The benefits of using our platform to simplify your information security management is that it allows your organisation to become more efficient, secure, and able to focus on the things that matter to you most. A user-friendly interface lets your users be more engaged in the processes and equipped with what is needed to keep your data secure.  

As mentioned in the beginning, data security relies on all users and suppliers to an organisation following the policies and procedures to keep your information safe. That is why it is essential to ensure that this information is easily accessible and that their compliance is tracked and recorded. Our platform allows you to practise these procedures in a simple, sustainable and effective way. Good user behaviour management should reflect these values, which is why we are happy to provide a means to achieve this for everyone. 

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