Mini Bundle: ISMS Startup Pack - ENT

The Mini Bundle: ISMS Startup Pack - ENT provides a foundational policy suite for any organization establishing or maturing its Information Security Management System (ISMS) in line with ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and related regulations. This bundle includes six essential policies, Information Security Policy, Governance Roles & Responsibilities, Access Control, Change Management, Risk Management, and Backup & Restore, each mapped directly to the latest international standards including ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27002:2022, NIST SP 800-53, COBIT 2019, EU GDPR, NIS2 Directive, and DORA. The Information Security Policy defines the organization’s overarching strategy for managing all aspects of information confidentiality, integrity, and availability. It provides strategic direction, expresses management’s security commitment, supports measurable objectives, sets out the information security governance model, and acts as the authoritative reference point for all subordinate documentation. Its scope is broad, covering all people, technologies, processes, and the full data lifecycle. Strict requirements ensure that roles are clear, ongoing risk-based actions are enforced, policy updates are managed, and auditability is maintained. The Governance Roles & Responsibilities Policy further clarifies accountability within the ISMS, ensuring that every participant, from executive leadership and ISMS manager to third-party providers, understands their function and escalation pathways. By maintaining a Roles & Responsibilities Register and enforcing segregation of duties, this policy guarantees that all ISMS activities are formally assigned, fully traceable, and periodically reviewed for audit purposes. Cross-disciplinary integration with IT, legal, compliance, and HR is explicitly required, and the policy spells out both internal and outsourced governance structures. The Access Control Policy delivers mandated principles for user and system access across all environments, spotlighting role-based access, lifecycle management, approval workflows, privileged account protection, and identity authentication, all supported by quarterly access reviews. This policy is tightly integrated with HR and vendor onboarding/offboarding, robust approval chains, and automated controls wherever possible. It meets not only ISO/IEC 27001 and NIST requirements, but also comprehensive legal duties under GDPR and sectoral frameworks. Strict enforcement, audit-orientated recordkeeping, and a whistleblower mechanism for violations are built in. Enterprise resilience is assured by the Change Management Policy. It applies disciplined, risk-informed controls to all technology and process changes: standard, normal, or emergency. The process requires detailed documentation of change requests, mandatory CAB (Change Advisory Board) review for normal and major changes, pre-implementation testing, documented rollback plans, and post-implementation reviews. Stringent controls prevent unauthorized changes, enforce version control, and ensure that all steps, initiation, approval, execution, are segregated. This systematic approach reduces the risk of unplanned outages, unauthorized modifications, or compliance breaches, while supporting a robust audit trail. Risk Management is operationalized with a repeatable, methodical process for risk identification, analysis, treatment, and monitoring in line with ISO/IEC 27001 Clause 6.1, ISO/IEC 27005, and ISO 31000. All risk management activities are documented in a centralized Risk Register and cross-referenced with the Statement of Applicability (SoA) for clear traceability to controls and treatment actions. This approach ensures the organization's risk appetite is established at the executive level and that all significant risks are appropriately escalated, treated, or accepted with full documentation and periodic review. The policy further specifies integration with audit findings, incident response, and strategic organizational decisions. Finally, the Backup and Restore Policy guarantees continuity and data resilience, mandating schedule-based encrypted backups, restore testing, offsite/cloud redundancy, and secure media handling, all in accordance with regulatory and business impact requirements. Recovery Time and Recovery Point Objectives (RTO/RPO) are documented per system. Restore testing is conducted regularly, backup failures are logged and escalated, and exceptions are risk-assessed and tightly controlled. The policy also extends to third-party backup providers, requiring contractual, technical, and compliance safeguards. Evidence retention for audit and investigation is required, and connection to wider incident response plans is expressly described. Collectively, these policies form a comprehensive, enterprise-ready “ISMS Starter Kit” suitable for organizations seeking certification, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience. Each document is version-controlled, review-cycled, and provides enforcement and escalation clauses for third-party and internal non-compliance, while supporting integrated audit-readiness throughout the ISMS lifecycle.