1. Generate Audit Leads: Becoming the ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, which involves a team of auditors performing ISO 27001 audit, you need to have experience in at least three complete ISMS audits.
After you finish all these steps, you will be able to perform the ISMS audits as the team leader. So, the ISO 27001 Lead Auditor Course is just the beginning of your journey. The implementation project should begin by appointing a project leader, one willing to collaborate with members of staff in creating a project mandate. In order to achieve this, you should personally ask yourself these questions.
• What am I aimed at (what you want to achieve)?
• How much commitment am I willing to spare?
• What will it cost me?

2. Risk Assessment: Finding success really is to understand and able to manipulate context of your purpose ISO 27001 does not prescribe a specific risk assessment methodology, it does require the risk assessment to be a formal process. This implies that the process must be planned, and the data, analysis, and results must be recorded. Prior to conducting a risk assessment, the baseline security criteria need to be established, which refer to the organization’s business, legal, and regulatory requirements and contractual obligations as they relate to information security. and understanding your impact in maintaining positive achievement so that you can actually build your ISMS in the right path of your business and protect those processes that really do need to be controlled from a security point of view.

3. Undertaking training: ISO 27006 requires you to go through a trainee program (or similar) during which you will attend real certification audits (done by more experienced colleagues) where you will learn how to perform such audits. After this training, you’ll be entitled to perform ISMS audits as part of the audit team. If you want your personnel to implement all the new policies and procedures, first you have to explain to them why they are necessary and train your people to be able to perform as expected; achieving that can only be doe if you have been trained well and with experience during your study. The absence of these activities is the second most common reason for ISO 27001 project failure.
4. The measure, monitor, and review: ISO 27001 support a process of continual improvement. This requires that the performance of the ISMS be constantly analyzed and reviewed for effectiveness and compliance, in addition to identifying improvements to existing processes and controls. You will also need to develop a process to determine, review and maintain the competencies necessary to achieve your ISMS objectives. This involves conducting a needs analysis and defining a desired level of competence.
5. Perform internal audits: commonly, people don’t notice they are doing something wrong sometimes they do, but they don’t want anyone to find out about it). But being unaware of existing or potential problems can hurt your organization, you have to perform an internal audit in order to find out such things. The point here is not to initiate disciplinary actions, but to take corrective and/or preventive actions.

6. Implementation: This is the process of building the security controls that will protect your organization’s information assets. Once you have taken the steps you have your controls in place, the next process that we need to design is part of getting your ISMS out of the ground is the internal audit process. Simply what an internal audit process is to allow somebody else in the organization or perhaps outside the organization to have an independent review of your management system.

7. Certification: To begin an audit, the auditor will assess whether your documentation meets the requirements of the ISO 27001 Standard and point out any areas of nonconformity and potential improvement of the management system. With perfect preparation and focus it wouldn’t take long to attain certification.

1. Winning new business and retaining your existing customers: Not only does ISO 27001 certification help you to demonstrate good security practices, thereby improving working relationships and retaining existing clients – it gives you a proven marketing edge against your competitors, putting you alongside the likes of Google, Microsoft and Verizon.
2. Avoid the financial penalties and losses associated with data breaches: The average cost of a data breach is estimated at USD $3.79 million, according to IBM. ISO 27001 is the accepted global benchmark for the effective management of information assets, enabling organisations to avoid costly penalties due to non-compliance with data protection requirements and financial losses due to data breaches.
3. Protect and enhance your reputation: Cyber-attacks are increasing in volume and strength daily, and the financial and reputational damage caused by an ineffectual information security posture can be fatal. Implementing an ISO 27001-certified ISMS helps to protect your organisation against such threats and demonstrates that you have taken the necessary steps to protect your business.
4. Comply with business, legal, contractual and regulatory requirements: The Standard is designed to ensure the selection of adequate and proportionate security controls that help to protect information in line with increasingly rigid regulatory requirements such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the NIS Directive and other cyber security laws.
5. Obtain an independent opinion about your security posture: Accredited certification to ISO 27001 involves undertaking regular reviews and internal audits of the ISMS to ensure the continual improvement of the ISMS. In addition, an external auditor will review the ISMS at specific intervals to establish whether the controls are working as intended. This independent assessment provides an expert opinion of whether the ISMS is functioning properly and provides the level of security needed to protect the organisation’s information.