An organization’s processes and assets change over time. As a result, any Information Security Management System implementation has to be reviewed regularly to ensure that the processes are growing according to the organizational needs and business.

Moreover, it is mandatory to renew Information Security Management System certification after a specific duration. As a result, organizations which have already been certified are required to periodically review their Information Security Management System systems to ensure that they are compliant with the regulations.

Keeping this in mind Appin has come up with an unique methodology to review existing Information Security Management System systems to ensure compliance management. The service includes a audits for processes as well as technology.

The various steps taken by Appin to ensure your compliance are:

• A Technical Audit of your IT assets, including a comprehensive Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing exercise for the IT assets of the organization. The IT assets usually include database servers, Exchange servers, web servers, application servers, firewalls, routers, and switches. Once all the IT assets have been audited a Risk Assessment sheet is prepared and provided to the client along with comprehensive and detailed reports for all IT assets along with patch recommendations. Unlike most other vendors, Appin considers patching up vulnerabilities as a part of the project. As a result, we provide detailed and customized patches for all found vulnerabilities and support the IT development team / IT vendors of the client to implement the patches. Once all the patches have been implemented, a regression test is conducted to ensure successful implementation of all patches and reduction in the Risk score of the organization
• A Process Level Audit, which is a comprehensive review of the policies and standards deployed in the organization. This is done by reviewing the current documentation being used. Based on that, security policies are revised or new security policies are framed depending upon new changes in the structure or introduction of new processes in the organization.

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