ISO/IEC 27001:2022
ISMS Lead Implementer
A four-day professional programme for designing, implementing, operating, monitoring and continually improving an Information Security Management System that is aligned to business context, information-security risks and ISO/IEC 27001 requirements.
Course Objective
Develop the competence to lead an ISMS implementation from initiation through certification readiness and continual improvement.
This programme equips participants to establish an implementation programme, define ISMS scope and governance, perform gap assessment, design risk assessment and treatment processes, select and manage controls, prepare the Statement of Applicability, develop documented information, coordinate implementation across business and technology functions, establish performance evaluation, and prepare the organization for internal audit, management review and certification assessment.
Market Need
Why organizations need capable ISMS implementation leaders.
Why Attend?
Move from standard interpretation to a practical implementation roadmap.
Key Learning Areas
The core implementation capabilities developed during the programme.
Detailed 4-Day Course Agenda
A practical implementation journey from project initiation to certification readiness.
- Purpose and business value of an Information Security Management System.
- Structure and implementation intent of ISO/IEC 27001:2022.
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022/Amd 1:2024 awareness and organizational context considerations.
- Understanding internal and external issues and interested-party requirements.
- Defining a practical, defensible ISMS scope and interfaces.
- Leadership commitment, information-security policy and assignment of responsibilities.
- Implementation programme structure: sponsor, steering committee, workstreams, RACI, milestones and reporting.
- Gap assessment methodology and implementation maturity baseline.
- Workshop: develop an ISMS project charter, stakeholder map and scope statement.
- Designing information-security risk assessment criteria and methodology.
- Asset-, process-, scenario- and threat-based approaches to risk identification.
- Risk analysis, likelihood, impact, evaluation and risk ownership.
- Risk treatment options, treatment planning and residual-risk acceptance.
- Linking risk treatment with Annex A controls and other necessary controls.
- Understanding the four control themes: organizational, people, physical and technological.
- Using ISO/IEC 27002:2022 guidance to support control design and implementation.
- Preparing and maintaining the Statement of Applicability.
- Workshop: risk register → treatment plan → control selection → SoA traceability.
- ISMS documented-information architecture: policies, procedures, standards, plans, records and evidence.
- Document ownership, approval, version control, communication and retention.
- Operational planning and control, change management and outsourced processes.
- Implementation approach for asset management, acceptable use and information classification.
- Identity and access management, privileged access, authentication and segregation of duties.
- Supplier security, cloud-service governance and third-party assurance.
- Incident management, logging, monitoring, vulnerability management, backup and continuity-related controls.
- Secure development, change control, testing and technology-security operations.
- Competence, awareness, communication and role-based security responsibilities.
- Workshop: build a control implementation tracker and evidence register.
- Monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation of ISMS performance.
- Designing useful KPIs, KRIs, compliance monitoring and management dashboards.
- Internal audit programme and readiness review.
- Management review inputs, outputs and decision tracking.
- Nonconformity, corrective action, cause analysis and effectiveness verification.
- Continual improvement and maintaining the ISMS after certification.
- Certification-readiness approach: documentation, operational records, interviews and evidence.
- Stage-1 and Stage-2 preparation concepts and common implementation weaknesses.
- Capstone workshop: build a 12-month ISMS implementation and certification-readiness roadmap.
Lead Implementer Practical Roadmap
The implementation lifecycle participants will practice.
Governance, scope, baseline
Risk, gaps, priorities
Controls, documents, evidence
Metrics, audit, review
Correct, sustain, mature
Practical Outputs Developed During Training
Reusable implementation templates and planning artifacts.
Who Should Attend?
For professionals responsible for ISMS implementation, governance and security improvement.
Recommended Prerequisite
A basic understanding of information security, risk, IT operations or management systems is helpful. Prior ISO/IEC 27001 experience is beneficial but not mandatory.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, participants should be able to:
Build an ISMS that works beyond the certificate.
Arrange a dedicated Lead Implementer programme for your information security, IT, risk, audit and compliance teams.