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How to ease the risks posed from cyber space

February 1st, 2012 by kwright

Threats from cyber space can be daunting; you don’t know what they might be, when they might occur and how your business will react.

The Cyber Resilience Standards Kit will raise your awareness around cyber security, and prepare you for every eventuality.

This set of 4 international standards is ideal for anyone implementing an ISO/IEC 27001 ISMS and those who want to mitigate the risks their organisation faces from cyberspace whilst ensuring business continuity should an incident occur.

Available to download today >>>

Cyber Resilience Standards Kit (Download)

Price: $365

The Cyber Resilience Standards Kit:

Includes the key standards necessary to implement an ISO/IEC 27001 ISMS and mitigate the risks posed from cyberspace and whilst ensuring business resilience.
All the advice and guidance within these standards is generic, this means the guidance can be employed by any organisation anywhere.
Save money over buying these standards individually, save $$$’s!

Download today >>>

Tags: ISO27001, ISO27002, ISO27031, ISO27035, Risk Management, USA
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How to ease the risks posed from cyber space

February 1st, 2012 by Melanie Watson

Threats from cyber space can be daunting; you don’t know what they might be, when they might occur and how your business will react.

The Cyber Resilience Standards Kit will raise your awareness around cyber security, and prepare you for every eventuality.

This set of 4 international standards is ideal for anyone implementing an ISO/IEC 27001 ISMS and those who want to mitigate the risks their organisation faces from cyberspace whilst ensuring business continuity should an incident occur.

Available to download today >>

Cyber Resilience Standards Kit (Download)

Price: £369.00

The Cyber Resilience Standards Kit:

Includes the key standards necessary to implement an ISO/IEC 27001 ISMS and mitigate the risks posed from cyberspace and whilst ensuring business resilience.
All the advice and guidance within these standards is generic, this means the guidance can be employed by any organisation anywhere.
Save money over buying these standards individually, save £££££.

Download today >>

Tags: Cybersecurity, Risk Management
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One week offer: vsRisk reduced by £100

January 24th, 2012 by kwright

Until the end of January, we’re offering vsRisk – the specialist risk assessment tool – for the fantastic price of £895, that’s a £100 reduction.

More and more businesses are realising that information security management is critical to the survival and success of their business. It is essential that you understand the risks to your business and implement proportionate controls to protect yourself from them.

vsRisk automates this process, provides a comprehensive gap analysis and has a fully in-built audit trail and comparative history.

vsRisk™ – The Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Tool

RRP: £995
Price: £895
You Save: £100

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The vsRisk Assessment Tool has been designed to help you carry out a risk assessment quickly and efficiently. Aligned with ISO27001 (the information security standard) it is user-friendly and will help you identify, analyse and control risks in line with your business objectives.

For £895 you get a tool that:

Automates and delivers an ISO/IEC 27001-compliant risk assessment
Uniquely, can assess confidentiality, integrity & availability (CIA) for each of business, legal and contractual aspects of information assets – as required by ISO 27001
Assess key areas such as Groups, Assets and Owners
Capture your IS policy, objectives and ISMS scope
Assesses attributes on Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability, in relation to Business, Legal, Contractual
In built Audit Trail and comparative history
Comprehensive reporting and gap analysis

This offer is only available until Tuesday January 31st.

Take advantage today >>>

Tags: Risk Management, vsRisk
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Special 15% off any training course with vsRisk

January 19th, 2012 by kwright

With vsRisk the hard work has been done for you. It automates and delivers an ISO27001 compliant risk assessment, which you can subsequently base your risk controls on, and an audit ready Statement of Applicability.

If that isn’t enough, if you purchase vsRisk this January you can save 15% off any ITG training course!

Make this fantastic saving on the ISO27001 Lead Auditor, the new Cobit 5 update seminar a CISA or CISM course, or any of the ITG courses listed here >>>

vsRisk – ISO 27001: 2005 Compliant Information Security Risk Assessment Tool

Price: £995

vsRisk is the most effective, user friendly way of carrying out a risk assessment. It’s much cheaper than using a consultant and for the rest of January will save you 15% of any ITG training course.

Take advantage of this offer today >>>

Tags: Risk Management, Training, vsRisk
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Nine Steps to Success with ISO 27001

January 18th, 2012 by kwright

Whether you’ve just begun, or part-way through implementing ISO 27001, Nine Steps to Success: an ISO27001 Implementation Overview is an ideal guide to read.

‘It’s like having a $300/hr consultant at your elbow as you consider the aspects of gaining management support, planning, scoping, communication, etc…’
Thomas F. Witwicki

This book covers nine critical steps you will undertake to successfully achieve ISO 27001 certification. So if you are about to tackle, or are tackling ISO 27001, then this the perfect stepping-stone to success.

Order your copy today >>>

Nine Steps to Success: an ISO 27001 Implementation Overview
by Alan Calder

RRP: 44.95
Price: $29.95
You Save: $15.00

Also available as an ebook

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Tags: ISO27001, ISO27001 Training, Risk Management, USA
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Learn how to conduct a risk assessment with this video tutorial

January 11th, 2012 by kwright

Risk is not something that organisations have a tendency to manage in an effective way. Many organizations have inadequate risk management processes and policies and leave themselves exposed. On the other hand, some organizations put in place so many risk management controls that they fail to operate effectively.

Risk management needs to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information assets (CIA). In short, risk management needs effective and proportional.

Most organisations know they should conduct a risk assessment, identify the threats to their business and put in place adequate risk management controls. But how do you go about it?

vsRisk is a specially designed piece of software that will help you carry out a risk assessment quickly and effectively. It’s straightforward, easy to use and much cheaper than a consultant.

vsRisk Video Tutorial

This video, created by the risk assessment expert and the Vigilant Software CEO, Alan Calder, will help you understand how vsRisk software can help you conduct an effective risk assessment.

vsRisk delivers an ISO27001 – the world’s information security standard – compliant risk assessment. It will deliver a list of outputs which are proportional to your risk appetite and from which you can base your risk controls on.

Order your copy of vsRisk today >>>

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Learn how to conduct a risk assessment

January 11th, 2012 by Melanie Watson

Risk is not something that organisations have a tendency to manage in an effective way. Many organisations have inadequate risk management processes and policies and leave themselves exposed. On the other hand, some organisations put in place so many risk management controls that they fail to operate effectively.

Risk management needs to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information assets (CIA). In short, risk management needs effective and proportional.

Most organisations know they should conduct a risk assessment, identify the threats to their business and put in place adequate risk management controls. But how do you go about it?

vsRisk is a specially designed piece of software that will help you carry out a risk assessment quickly and effectively. It’s straightforward, easy to use and much cheaper than a consultant.

vsRisk – ISO 27001: 2005 Compliant Information Security Risk Assessment Tool

Price: €1179.95

vsRisk delivers an ISO27001 – the world’s information security standard – compliant risk assessment. It will deliver a list of outputs which are proportional to your risk appetite and from which you can base you risk controls on.

You can download a free trial version of vsRisk here >>>

Buy a full version of vsRisk here >>>

Tags: Risk Management
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Learn how to conduct a risk assessment with this video tutorial

January 11th, 2012 by kwright

Risk is not something that organisations have a tendency to manage in an effective way. Many organisations have inadequate risk management processes and policies and leave themselves exposed. On the other hand, some organisations put in place so many risk management controls that they fail to operate effectively.

Risk management needs to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information assets (CIA). In short, risk management needs effective and proportional.

Most organisations know they should conduct a risk assessment, identify the threats to their business and put in place adequate risk management controls. But how do you go about it?

vsRisk is a specially designed piece of software that will help you carry out a risk assessment quickly and effectively. It’s straightforward, easy to use and much cheaper than a consultant.

vsRisk: The Ultimate Risk Assessment Tool

This video, created by the risk assessment expert and the Vigilant Software CEO, Alan Calder, will help you understand the risk assessment process and demystify the effective application of the vsRisk software.

Watch the video now!

vsRisk delivers an ISO27001 – the world’s information security standard – compliant risk assessment. It will deliver a list of outputs which are proportional to your risk appetite and from which you can base your risk controls on.

You can download a free trial version of vsRisk here >>>

Buy a full version of vsRisk here >>>

Tags: Risk Management, vsRisk
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How to manage Social Media in your organisation

January 9th, 2012 by James Warren

Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter & YouTube – these are the world’s most popular sites for people to share information, socialise and just hang out together, electronically. Blogging, Instant Messaging and Skype all play a significant role in enabling people to keep in touch with one another, wherever they are in the world.

What individuals do at home, they would like to do at work. But how should organisations regulate and manage the use, by their staff, of social media during work hours? And what sort of risks do organisations face, in terms of potential data loss, unregulated communication of confidential information, and work time?

The other part of the challenge is this: how should social media be used as part of a corporate communication and marketing strategy? How should the talents and credibility of individuals within the organisation be harnessed to position the organisation and its products or services in the best possible light? How should the organisation respond to criticism of it, whether on blogs or in a LinkedIn group?

Social Media Governance Toolkit
Comprehensive Suite of Documents and Tools for Social Media Governance.

RRP: £199.95
Price: £149.95
You Save: £50.00

The ITG Social Media Governance Toolkit contains a comprehensive suite of documents and templates that will help you develop, implement, monitor and improve social media activities across your organisation.

Buy The Social Media Governance Toolkit Today!

Tags: Information Security, IT Governance, Risk Management, Social Media
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Reduce risks to your IT systems with this eBook for the weekend

January 6th, 2012 by Melanie Watson

‘Given that the biggest elements of operational infrastructure these days are IT-based, and given that the business runs on IT, it means that this is where you will find the most risk.’
John Robson, CIO, Site

Cyber security is an issue that faces all organisations and should be a major concern for senior management, not just IT departments.

Managing Information Risk: A Director’s Guide is a insightful pocket guide to help you understand how to identify the threats to your IT systems, and how to implement strategies to combat these risks.