Cyber Assurance
What's it about?
Cyber assurance is a comprehensive, flexible and affordable cyber security standard. This provides assurance that an organisation has put in place a range of important cyber security, privacy and data protection measures. It aligns directly with the UK Government’s 10 steps to Cyber Security with additional Data Privacy controls and offers smaller companies within a supply chain a ‘right sized’ approach to show their level of information security for a realistic cost.
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Important cyber security measures are included such as assessing and managing risk, training people and setting practical policies and procedures. Key resilience strategies are covered and include backing up data, business continuity planning and incident response. Legal and regulatory requirements are also addressed such as your country’s implementation of GDPR (in the UK this is the Data Protection Act). Furthermore, the IASME Cyber Assurance standard was developed over several years during a government funded project. This was in order to create an affordable and achievable alternative to the international standard, ISO 27001. You must have Cyber Essentials first in order to achieve Cyber Assurance.
