Blog A new look for our flagship ISO27001 toolkit

What’s new in version 11?

Here are the main improvements:

• Dashboards have been introduced in many spreadsheet tools, including gap assessments, risk assessments and project plans
• Microsoft Visio diagrams, such as flowcharts, have been replaced with versions that are fully editable in Microsoft Word
• Presentation slideshows have been updated to use PowerPoint Smart Art and improved animations and transitions
• An Information Security Management System overview diagram has been added
• A separate Bring Your Own Device Policy has been created
• The Mobile Device Policy has been expanded to cover more aspects of mobile device management
• An issue with field definition affecting multiple documents has been corrected
• All documents have been reviewed and minor updates made
• Sections about vulnerability disclosure added to relevant documents

A great solution to a thorny problem

CertiKit managing director Ken Holmes said he was delighted to see enhancements already made to other toolkits in the CertiKit range over the past year now introduced to the ISO27001 flagship product.

“Information security continues to be a high-profile issue at board level,” he remarked, “and we are proud that our ISO27001 toolkit is helping organizations get to grips with this thorny problem quickly and effectively.

“As always, my thanks go to all our customers who have given us invaluable feedback since the last release. They have helped to make this update a significant upgrade in terms of usefulness and functionality.”

Five-star reviews from our customers

We at CertiKit are rightly proud of our toolkits – but, as always, don’t just take our word for it. The best people to judge are those who’ve bought and used the toolkit to comply with the standard.

Among the customers over the past few months to leave five-star reviews for the ISO27001 toolkit on our reviews.co.uk page was Christoph Baumgartner. He said it was “an excellent starting point to achieve ISO 27001 certification”.

Timothy Johns wrote that the templates were laid out “perfectly” and said the transition from one policy to another was “seamless”. He added: “I highly recommend this and several of [CertiKit’s] other products.”

And an anonymous customer, who bought the ISO27001 toolkit along with those for PCI-DSS and GDPR, told us: “Collectively, they enable you to produce a comprehensive and standardised document set that saves hours of time with structure and cross-referencing.

“The ‘template’ design provides for a good-quality starting point, where finer details can be discussed and agreed with key business stakeholders.”

How to buy – and other ISO27001 products

Version 11 of the CertiKit ISO27001 Toolkit can be found here. We also sell an ISO27001 Enhanced Gap Assessment Tool, which has also been updated. As well as being available to buy, existing customers within their support period will receive v11 free as part of their subscription.

Finally, there is a v11 version of the ISO27001-17-18 Enhanced Gap Assessment Tool, which addresses Cloud Service Providers and Personally Identifiable Information.