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IASME Cyber Assurance

A UK cyber assurance standard aimed at small and medium organisations. It covers much of the same ground as ISO 27001, including risk management, asset management and incident response, at a scale and cost that suits an organisation without a dedicated security function.

Two levels

The difference is how the answers are checked, not what is asked. Both use the same standard.

Level One

A verified self-assessment against the IASME Cyber Assurance standard. You answer the question set and the answers are reviewed by a certification body.

Level Two

An on-site or remote audit by an IASME-appointed assessor, who tests the controls rather than accepting the self-assessment at face value.

What the standard covers

Risk management

Identifying what matters to the organisation and deciding what to do about it, documented rather than held informally.

Asset management

Knowing what hardware, software and data exist, where they are and who is accountable for them.

Access control

Who can reach what, how that is granted and removed, and how privileged accounts are handled.

People and training

Awareness, responsibilities and the security expectations placed on staff.

Backup and resilience

How data is backed up, how restoration is tested, and how the organisation keeps operating through disruption.

Incident response

Detecting an incident, responding to it, and learning from it afterwards.

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