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Certification body Interview
Before making a decision you should find out if this certification body is the best option for you - in this article you will find what you should find out: How to choose a certification body https://advisera.com/blog/2021/01/11/how-to-choose-an-iso-certification-body/ -
Asset Management Procedure
Kaoutar,
ISO 27001 does not require you to write an Asset management procedure - it only requires you to build an Asset inventory (control A.8.1.1 in ISO 27001:2013).
Therefore, you should write such a procedure only if you have significant risks that you want to decrease with such a document, or of your company is big and it would be difficult to handle all the assets without a written procedure. You could include the following in such a procedure: how the assets are identified and marked, where are they recorded (Asset inventory) and who is responsible, how are they disposed of, etc.
By a definition in ISO 27001, assets are anything that has value for the organization - it is not only the hardware and software, it is also information (in digital or paper form), people, infrastructure, facilities, etc. -
Setting the scope of ISO 27k certification
ISMS is called a system because it contains several related processes and IT systems; but you are right, it could be confusing. Perhaps you can call your ISMS simply "information security management", just as you probably say "financial management" for y our financial activities.
This leads me to a perhaps larger question that I should know already. When we get ISO 27K certification, is the certification for the company or for one (or more) of our data processing systems? Should we be building the ISMS enterprise wide or are the policies, procedures, etc. that we are assembling specific to our e-commerce application? I think it is the latter, otherwise what would be the purpose of the ISMS scope?
The certification body will certify your ISMS within the scope you specify. You can set your ISMS scope for your whole company, for one or several departments, for a process, or for an IT system. I really wouldn't recommend setting the scope for a process or for a system because that is extremely hard to achieve - it is much easier to set the scope for the whole company, or based on departments. This article may help you: Problems with defining the scope in ISO 27001 https://advisera.com/27001academy/blog/2010/06/29/problems-with-defining-the-scope-in-iso-27001/
Once you set the scope, policies and procedures must not apply only to your IT systems, because you have to cover also other controls from Annex A - human resources management, supplier management, legal controls, etc. -
ISO 27001:2013 standard - student copy
Mukta,
As far as I know, this it not possible if you purchase the standard directly from ISO or from BSI; however, your local standardization body might have some subsidized rates. -
Can the risk be accepted and the control not applied?
Answer: You shouldn't mix the terms here - the ISMS scope refers to which information you are protecting and which information is not protected (it is out of the scope); within the ISMS scope you can decide which controls to apply and which not to apply.
To answer your question - if you have identified a risk which is low and decided to accept it and not to apply the related control, this is something you are allowed to do. The certification auditor shouldn't object to that, but the auditor can object if you didn't take into account all the vulnerabilities and threats, and if you didn't apply the assessment scale systematically. From my own experience, companies very often bend their own risk assessment approach in order to avoid certain controls - this is what the certification auditors are allergic about. -
Setting the ISMS scope for data center
Yes, in this situation (where there is a clear boundary) you could set the developers out of the ISMS scope. -
Which controls to apply?
Answer: None of the controls from Annex A are mandatory - any control can be excluded if there are no risks or other legal or regulatory requirements; however, it is extremely rare to see a company that has excluded control A.11.3.1.
The control 11.3.1 suggests that I have a system that chaise passwords. Once I apply the control, I have to use all suggestions, or can I do it my way, for example I generate passwords instead of a system?
Answer: There is no such requirement in ISO 27001:2005 A.11.3.1 - perhaps you are reading ISO 27002? In any case, any requirement that doesn't exist in ISO 27001 is not mandatory. This means you can apply your rules as long as they are not conflicting with ISO 27001 and that they reflect your risk assessment.
When I apply a control that refers to another, should I use this one too?
Answer: I'm not sure if I understood your question well, but you have to apply all the controls where there are risks or legal or regulatory requirements. Of course, you can implement couple of controls together. -
Certify against ISO 27001 2005 or 2013?
You can certify against the old ISO 27001 2005 revision until September 25, 2014, but in that case you will have to make the transition to the 2013 revision until September 25, 2015.
Much better option would be to certify right away against the 2013 revision of the standard. For more information read this article: How to make a transition from ISO 27001 2005 revision to 2013 revision https://advisera.com/27001academy/knowledgebase/how-to-make-a-transition-from-iso-27001-2005-revision-to-2013-revision/ -
BIA questionnaire
Juliano,
The point is to assess which resources will be needed when - e.g. you may have 10 employees in your activity, and 4 of them will be needed immediately when the recovery begins, 1 will be needed 2 hours after that, and remaining 5 employees will be needed 24 hours after. -
How to implement all policies and procedures for stage 2
I've received this question: We have passed Stage 1, Could you please suggest how to implement all policies and procedures for stage 2 and what exactly they check on Stage 2. Answer: At Stage 2 audit, the certification auditors will check if you really operate according to your policies and procedures - so for example if you have written that you will perform backup every 2 hours, then the auditor will check if this is really done so. So the answer to your question is: you have to observe all the rules you have documented.