Get Ready for ISO/IEC 27701: Auditor’s Ultimate Guide

As more and more data protection and privacy regulations emerge around the globe, the desire or wish to demonstrate compliance with these increases. With assorted management systems and associated certifications well established to demonstrate conformity and compliance, organizations are eager to manage their data protection and privacy obligations equally...

Posted by Martin Holzke on 20th December 2024

Webinar: Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement Through ISO Certification

A webinar with Martin Holzke und Nico Snyman hosted by MSECB

Posted by Martin Holzke on 14th November 2024

ISO in the Sun: Open courses and more …

Naturally ISO on the Sun is best known for public courses here in Lanzarote as well as live online as published on the website. But did you know ...

Posted by Martin Holzke on 23rd August 2020

No room for complacency

While we certainly here in Lanzarote had a very strict lockdown and that way seem to have won the first round, i.e. keeping numbers of corona infections and deaths very low, numbers slowly are on the rise again since the “new normal” ...

Posted by Martin Holzke on 22nd August 2020

Conformity for its own sake is pointless

Compliance and conformity with all sorts of requirements becomes ever more omni-present in all walks of life. No doubt as auditors we add our cent to it ...

Posted by Martin Holzke on 23rd June 2019

The need for business continuity is not going away

It amazes me that despite an ongoing series of smaller and larger outages, disruptions and disaster well reported in the media, individuals and organisations alike widely continue to see business continuity as a nice-to-have ...

Posted by Martin Holzke on 20th June 2019

Cyber Security vs. Information Security?

Given all the recent cyber security incidents like WannaCry or the Experian breaches to name just two, yet information security high on the agenda everywhere, many people wonder how this goes together or not ...

Posted by Martin Holzke on 18th January 2018

Annex SL as driver for Integrated Management Systems (IMS)

Integrated Management Systems (IMS) have long since been associated with the combination of quality, environmental and health & safety management systems that is rather common in various industries ...

Posted by Martin Holzke on 10th October 2016

Risk Management for the benefit of your organisation

Risk assessment and risk management are often experienced as regulatory requirement solely associated with yet more work, cost and burden. However, that’s the purpose of risk management totally misunderstood ...

Posted by Martin Holzke on 9th March 2016