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Building An ISO 27001 Compliant Asset Management Tool Using JIRA
JIRA standard software provides everything you need to build up a fully-fledged asset management tool
An information security norm dating back to 2013? Yes, this is still a reality with the ISO 27001:2013 norm. Some of the topics covered by this norm have started to collect the dust of the 2010s, which can be awkward when you’re trying to achieve an initial certification in the early 2020s based on a norm designed almost ten years ago.
Nevertheless, more and more enterprise customers expect their suppliers to be ISO 27001 certified (read about my experience with procurement departments… I should maybe add their constant quest for ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certifications to this article!). Therefore, startups and SMEs need to find ways to deal with ISO 27001 in a lean and modern way.
As the Co-Founder & CEO of a software company, improved asset management was one of the key benefits of our ISO 27001 certification. We created a simple yet actionable tool that drastically improved our overview of all our assets within the company. I will cover the exact steps we took to create this tool in this article.
