Asset & risk management depth
How this is scored
The ISMS core: asset inventory, risk methodology (identification, assessment, treatment), protection-needs inheritance, incident handling with statutory clocks.
0 — No ISMS substance; "information security" is a chapter in the marketing site.
3 — A flat risk list and an asset spreadsheet import; no treatment tracking, no inheritance, incidents live in the ticket system.
5 — Asset and risk management with configurable matrices and treatment tracking; basic incident handling; inheritance and aggregation need manual work.
8 — A real risk backbone: documented methodology (ISO 27005 or equivalent), inherited protection needs across asset relations, incident workflows with statutory reporting clocks (NIS2 24h/72h), risk acceptance with ownership.
10 — Risk management a certifier works inside: complete asset-risk-treatment chain with inheritance, continuity planning, incident reporting with authority export, and risk reporting the executive level actually reads.
The GRC Consultant
The risk module runs identify, classify, treat with owners and review dates mandatory, exclusions are documented non-treatment decisions with owners and expiry, and incidents run detection through lessons learned — a real register, not a spreadsheet. But I found no public information on an asset inventory module, protection-needs inheritance across asset relations, or NIS2 24h/72h statutory reporting clocks, and those are exactly the pieces that make client twelve cheaper than client one. 1 5 6