The free ISO27k toolkit consists of a collection of papers contributed by members of the ISO27k Implementers’ Forum, either individually or through collaborative working groups organized on the Forum. 

This is an incomplete work-in-progress: further contributions are most welcome, whether to fill-in gaps or additional examples of the documents provided. 

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ISO27k toolkit overview and contents * START HERE *

• Overview and contents v3 - contributed by a group of Forum members. Outlines the toolkit’s purpose and scope. Presented as a checklist of documentation typically required for an ISMS. Includes links to [most of] the following example/sample documents.  Also available as an editable Word document if you need to customize the checklist.

ISMS management & implementation guidance

• Case study on ISMS implementation - contributed by Gary Hinson. Documents a passionate presentation by the Managing Director of an IT services company on the business value of ISO27k. The paper notes benefits that are seldom mentioned elsewhere. An earlier version of the case study is also available in Spanish thanks to Sr. Javier Ruiz and colleagues at www.ISO27000.es
• Generic business case - contributed by Gary Hinson. Outlines the main categories of benefits and costs of implementing ISO27k in a form suitable for preparing an investment proposal. Please contact us for the MS Word version.
• ISO27k implementation guidance and metrics PDF Also available as a Rich Text Format file and a Spanish language version (PDF or RTF ), kindly translated by our friends at www.iso27000.es Provides guidance and suggests metrics for the 39 key sections of ISO/IEC 27002
• Statement of Applicability (SoA) - contributed by Richard Regalado
• Scope statements - contributed by K. Faisal Javed
• Organization of information security - contributed by Gary Hinson
• Information security metrics - contributed by ISACA Wellington
• Glossary of information security terms - contributed by Gary Hinson

ISMS policies

• High level overall ISMS policy - contributed by K. Faisal Javed
• Email security policy - contributed by Gary Hinson
• Laptop security policy - contributed by Gary Hinson
• Outsourcing security policy - contributed by Aaron D'Souza

ISMS procedures

• Corrective action procedure - contributed by Richard Regalado - MS Visio version
• ISMS internal audit procedure - contributed by Richard Regalado

ISMS guidelines and other supporting documents

• Information security risk analysis spreadsheet - contributed by Hamid Nisar
• Information asset inventory - contributed by FF Ramos
• Information security risk register  - contributed by Madhukar
• Cisco router security audit checklist - contributed by Aaron D’Souza
• ISMS auditing guideline release 1 - contributed by a group of Forum members. The Word version is available to Forum members from the files area.

ISMS-related job descriptions, roles and responsibilities

• None available as yet. Do you have something to contribute?
• Coming soon: job descriptions for business continuity and disaster recovery managers

Further contributions welcome!

We operate a “show and tell” policy. If you want something else to be provided in the toolkit, by all means request it on the ISO27 Implementers’ Forum ... but you are more likely to get a positive response if you first contribute something to the toolkit yourself. There are plenty of gaps in the toolkit (see the overview and contents paper) and there is always room for further examples of the materials already provided. 

If you are willing to donate further example documents for publication on this website, please send them to Gary@isect.com. We can help you review and reformat the documents to match the style of the others (e.g. adding the group logo and creative commons copyright notice) but please make sure to delete any sensitive proprietary or personal information first. You must have the copyright owner’s explicit permission to post materials on this site - no exceptions.

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Please read and comply with the copyright notices in the individual files. Most of the documents are provided under a Creative Commons license which allows you to use them freely but not to incorporate them or sell them as part of a commercial product.