As touched on earlier, the main components of an ISMS are summarised in the image. The solution is comprised of two main investments to bring it alive:
• People
• Technology
The real size of these pie slices, in terms of time and cost, is all dependent on the objectives, the starting point, the scope of jobs to include in the ISMS, and the organisation’s preferred way of working.
Investing well in one slice will help reduce or avoid much larger investments of people or technology in the other slices especially when looking at a whole life cost basis.
These approaches will cost much more in the long run, or have big opportunity costs, so consider a total cost of ownership, not just the initial implementation.
An ISMS delivers a positive return on investment. The goal of our whitepaper is to show you why, what, and how you can get RoI from an ISMS that fits the business needs.