Self-Paced Toolkit to kickstart your ISO27001 & VDA TISAX isms
Kickstart your information security management system and get ISO27K & VDA certified without large budgets and endless paperwork
- 40+ Documents & templates
- ISO27K and VDA ISA compliant
- Step-by-step guidance
- No tech skills required
- Community
- Support & assistance


In 2020 Information security is more important than ever.
With the rising of cyber-attacks and data breaches, information security management becomes essential for any modern business. Not complying with information security standards can lead to reputational, financial, and legal damage – even the loss of your business. As an answer more and more organizations looking to implement ISMS and get certified.
68,930+
Sites covered by ISO27001 certificates by 2019
ISO27001 is a leading international information security standard, specifying the requirements for an organization’s information security management system (ISMS), recognized by governments and regulatory agencies across the globe.
€35,000+
The average budget savings with ISMS Toolkit
Number of sites covered by ISO/IEC 27001 certificates in according to iso.org survey
Most organizations struggle to implement ISO27001 themself
ISMS Implementation is complex, time-consuming, and expensive, especially for small businesses and startups. It requires professional guidance, specialist expertise, and can take months – or even years – to implement. Hiring an external information security consultant can be even more expensive and out of budget.
complex & resource consuming
Information security is not simple. Organisations, managers and IT professionals often struggle with how, when, and where they should start implementing ISMS.
Doing the wrong things for the right reasons is still doing the wrong things. Without a clear strategy, step-by-step plan and the help of a third party, achieving certification take months of research, trial and error. There are many details to be coordinated, policies and procedures to be reviewed, and thought to be given to how security should be controlled across various networks and business units.
too expensive to small business
Level of complexity of ISMS depends on business context. However there are many requirements, controls, policies and documentation mandatory even for startups and small business.
Small to medium-sized businesses often don’t have dedicated team for ISMS implementation and budget to do it right. They try hard to create everything from scratch—throwing their whole security budget at it in one go. Unfortunately, this leads to an endless cycle of new implementations, with no progress made towards reaching your goals.
hard to do yourself from scratch
Even if you know what your ISMS stands for, and you think you know how to get it done, when it comes down to actually doing it's very easy to stuck and being overwhelmed
Your entire day could be consumed trying to meet deadlines, staying informed and simply figuring out what’s the best course of action to keep your business safe. Staying in touch with all the new technological advancements can also prove to be tricky. There’s just too much out there for one person to comprehend it, let alone stay up-to-date about it all.
consultants are not the best fit
There is plenty of information security consulting companies out there that can provide an ISMS but they often charge a lot for their services and required additional onboarding projects.
External consultants are a good option for top-level companies, but they are too expensive and time-consuming for small to medium enterprises. The cost of hiring an external consultant often is pretty high and required additional time to find and manage it.
Build ISMS and get certified without frustration
Self-paced toolkit for rapid ISMS implementation that includes a unique mix of readymade documents, trainings, expert community, step-by-step guidance and assistance through the whole process.
Designed for small and mid-size businesses who want to become more secure and get ISO27001 certification effortlessly, even without large budgets, endless paperwork and being overwhelmed by complex ISO requirements and controls.
- ISMS Documentation
- Implementation training
- Private community
- Expert assistance & consulting
Implement ISMS yourself fast, on the budget without compromising on quality.
Readymade documentation templates, step-by-step guidance, learning materials, experts community, and support. All in one comprehensive toolkit. Eliminate large money, time, and human resource spending by using proven ready-made templates and processes. Focus on what is essential for your career and business instead.


Readymade documentation templates
Step-by-step implementation training
ISMS Academy is a structured information security learning path to assist organizations in managing information security. Academy provides everything you need to get started on your journey towards ISMS implementation and certification. Tailored courses on best practices, standards, policies, and much more. Accessible from any device, anywhere.
Private infosec community
Expert support and assistance

transforming the way business implement ISMS framework
A toolkit designed to eliminate common issues, misunderstandings, large human resources, budget expenses, and stress during ISMS implementation. Get results fast, on the budget without compromising on quality.
ISMS as simple as possible.
Go quickly and efficiently
Save a lot of time and human resources in research, documents creation and trials & errors. Set up ISMS in relative short time and minimal efforts, without reinventing the wheel.
Save time, money and resources
Prevent thousands spent on consultants delivering the same results. Save over 90% compared to the cost of consultant with no effect on the documentation quality and business outcomes.
Jump start ISMS implementation
Readymade documentation includes all you need to implement ISO & VDA compliant ISMS.

Don't start with a blank page
Ready-made, easy to edit document templates save you time and money by building a streamlined process to create your own ISMS documentation. Toolkit set starting point, while additional business-related info fields clearly defined and can be discussed and agreed upon with key business stakeholders.
ISO27K and VDA TISAX compliant
Toolkit helps you focus on the key elements of information security management and compliance while supporting you with the rest. The complete set of documents includes all ISMS policies, controls, processes, and procedures to meet the requirements of the ISO27001 and VDA TISAX standards, and make business more secure.
Professional, well-organized system
Professional, well-orginized documentation that can be easily reusable, customized and inserted into your company managemenet system, smoothly integrated with existing documentaion. ISMS Documentation package includes 40 Word & Excel template files. All documents available to download instantly.

GUIDANCE & INSTRUCTIONS
Step-by-step guidance, in-built instruction, and info links
The documentation set structure follows the standard and includes instructions for each module, helping you go through every aspect effortlessly and make adjustments according to your business context. Simply follow documentation modules structure, replacing placeholders with your organization specific details with help of clear instructions and tips
included in every documents.
Built-in instructions
Every document supported with document in-built tips, comments, and detailed instructions helping you filling them and move through the process without distractions. Just click to include links in tips and comments to open the article from ISMS Academy and dive deeper into the topic clarify somethings, or learn the subject in detail.
Professional, well-organized system
Professional, well-orginized documentation that can be easily reusable, customized and inserted into your company managemenet system, smoothly integrated with existing documentaion. ISMS Documentation package includes 40 Word & Excel template files. All documents available to download instantly.
No experience or tech skills required
ISMS toolkit makes it easy and painless to create documentation for your information security management system – even as a complete beginner. Easy-to-follow documentation that guides you through every step of the setup and maintenance of your ISMS once implemented and ready for certification against ISO27001.
Kickstart your ISMS implementation today
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Plan and implement with confidence
Complete framework that guides through every step of the ISMS implementation, from zero to full compliance
ISMS Academy is a structured learning path to assist organizations in managing information security, ISMS implementation, and certification. Every module is numbered according to the project context and ISO implementation roadmap. So at every stage of the process, you will have clear visibility of your progress and the exact steps you need to do next .

Get overview of the whole process
See exactly what needs to be done. A well-organized and structured system that gives you an overview of the full scope, timeline all information you need. Get a clear understanding of how much technical work is to be done so you can plan and estimate your project before going into detail.
Keep track of your project
Transparent project management for all team members and stakeholders. In-built guidance and documentation organization will navigate you thought the implementation process, so at every step you exactly know where to start, what is done, what to do next, and how far you are from the full compliance
Learn by doing

All assistant and guidance you need
Live support, assistance through the process, and additional consulting on demand
Toolkit includes everything you need to implement ISMS yourself. If there is anything you can not handle, or need further advice on a specific topic, we will be there for you, only a click away. Get an answer to any ISMS questions and implementation issues you may have. Unlimited email support combined with assistant from experts and private community thought the whole process.
Assistance thorough the process
Unlimited email support
Documentation review

There are hundreds of people facing exactly the same challenges as you
We are here to help. Community of people from different companies and backgrounds sharing ideas and knowledge to improve your ISMS and therefore your career.
Join our international community of infosec practitioners and risk management professionals, who already learned how to implement ISO27001 and VDA TISAX ISMS in their business
and are eager to share their knowledge with you .
Network with ISMS practioners
The top 1% information security practitioners in startups, organizations , and enterprise gather to network, explore the most important issues facing during ISMS implementation, and learn how to solve their biggest problems. It’s all about connections. It’s about learning from each other.
Learn for experts
Sharing one’s knowledge is part of the learning experience. Community is more than just a place to ask questions. It’s also a place to connect with other members, share experiences, and learn from one another. With our dedicated channels, you can join up in conversation related to a specific topic.
Support from community
Get help from the community, and inspire others with your own solutions. If you are working on a hard problem, or facing a difficult decision, you can always ask the community for a little help to solve a problem. Any member can then upvote suggestions, ask questions, or comment on posts to help you find the most effective solution.

Unlock access with ISMS toolkit membership
Get full access to all of our currently available and upcoming products, templates, courses, step-by-step guidance, and unlimited support through the implementation process. Everything you need in one single membership.
Readymade ISO27001 & VDA TISAX documentation templates set with step-by-step implementation guidance
Contains 40+ documents of ISO2001 / VDA TISAX policies, controls, processes and procedures to implement ISMS yourself, meet requirements of the standard, protect customer data and make your business more secure.

Live support, documents review and assistance through the whole ISMS implementation project.
ISMS Connect Community for Businesses & People in Infosec Industry
Readymade ISO27001 & VDA TISAX documentation templates set with step-by-step implementation guidance

Designed based on industry best practices and years of experience
Created by a team of infosec practitioners with in-depth knowledge and many years of hands-on experience in information security, based on industry best practices and latest standarts.
We’re on the global mission to help 100,000 professionals learn, plan and implement information security management system, protect their customers' data, and make the world more secure
ISMS Connect was founded in 2015 in Berlin by an enthusiastic team who wanted to make information security easily available for everyone. We are here to provide tools, training, and support to small and medium organizations looking to implement and maintain an information security management system (ISMS) and get ISO27001 or VDA TISAX certified.

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years of hands-on experience in information security and ISMS implementation.
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clients from 5 countries helped to implement ISMS and getting certified
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ISMS Toolkit documents prepared and reviewed against ISO and VDA requirements.
ISMS implementation experience professionals love, with the benefits your business needs
ISMS Connect Toolkit eliminates common issues, expenses, and stress during ISMS implementation. giving you the perfect balance of readymade documentation, self-serve implementation process, and expert support.
Implement yourself with ISMS Toolkit and Assistance
- Do it yourself with assistance
- Optimal budget spendings
- Company knowledge + expert guidance
- Readymade, minimum time spendings
- Self-check and documents review
- 1hr pre-audit consultation
- ISMS Training & Community included
- Medium efforts
- Medium internal human resources
- Maintenance ISMS yourself
Learn and implement ISMS yourself from scratch in-house
- Internal team, do it yourself
- Minimum budget spendings
- Your know you company
- Start from 0, large time spendings
- No guaranty everything is done right
- No guaranty to pass audit
- Need to purchase trainings
- Large efforts & stress
- Large internal human resources
- Maintenance ISMS yourself
Hire an external consultant that will set up ISMS for you.
- External consultant
- Large budget spendings
- Time consuming onboarding project
- Outsourced, minimum time spendings
- Documentation is done by experts
- Audit support
- No ISMS trainings
- Medium efforts
- Medium internal human resources
- Additional cost to maintenance ISMS

instant access with ISMS TOOLKIT MEMBERSHIP
Get full access to all of our currently available and upcoming products, templates, courses, step-by-step guidance, and unlimited support through the implementation process. Everything you need in one single membership.
- ISMS Documentation
- Implementation training
- Private community
- Expert assistance & consulting
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€990
Lifetime license, 1 year of support & updates, 1 company,
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ISMS Documentation Toolkit
- Complete ISMS documentation
- 40 Word & Excel files
- 1 year updates & support
- ISO27001 & VDA TISAX
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ISMS Academy
- Curated ISMS newsletter
- ISMS Basic Course
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ISMS Documentation Toolkit
- Complete ISMS documentation
- 40 Word & Excel files
- 1 year updates & support
- ISO27001 & VDA TISAX
- Lifetime license for 1 company
- Multi-language DE + EN
- Team access
ISMS Academy +
- Curated ISMS newsletter
- ISMS Basic Course
- Team access
- Weekly Q&A sessions
- All upcoming courses for free
- Infosec Officer Course Coming soon Q1 2021
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- ISMS Knowledge base
- Private video sessions
- 5 Documents review & advice
- 1 hr. Expert consultation
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Lifetime license, 1 year of support and updates for 1 company,
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ISMS Documentation Toolkit
- Complete ISMS documentation
- 40 Word & Excel files
- 1 year updates & support
- ISO27001 & VDA TISAX
- License for 100 clients
- Multi-language DE + EN
- Team access
ISMS Academy +
- Curated ISMS newsletter
- ISMS Basic Course
- Team access
- Weekly Q&A sessions
- All upcoming courses for free
- Infosec Officer Course Coming soon Q1 2021
- ISMS Consulting Course Coming soon Q1 2021
ISMS Connect
- Private infosec community
- Moderated by ISMS experts
- Exchange about job & career
- Expert roundtables
- Access to all paid online events
- Consulting community
ISMS Assistance +
- Unlimited email support
- ISMS Knowledge base
- Private video sessions
- 5 Documents review & advice
- 1 hr. Expert consultation
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With ISMS Toolkit, you will be able to set up a solid information security management system according to ISO27001 and VDA ISA TISAX standards. All documentation and support provided by professional infosec practitioners with in-depth knowledge and many years of hands-on experience in information security. If you are not satisfied with ISMS Toolkit over the next 15 days, we will refund 100% of your purchase. No questions asked.
1 year of updates
Product updates are free. When the ISMS documentation toolkit is updated, we notify our customers by email so that they can download the new version in user dashboard
Unlimited email support
Our team are ready to provide responsive email support at any time during your implementation project. Each question will be answered within 24 hours by our implementation experts.
ISO27001 is a leading international information security standard, specifying the requirements for an organization’s information security management system (ISMS). An ISMS is a documented set of policies, procedures, processes, and controls that are designed to address all aspects of information security within your organization. The standard was first published in 2005 and has been updated incrementally since then. ISMS is based on the fundamental concepts of information security including people, processes, and technology. ISO27001 is recognized by governments and regulatory agencies across the globe. We’ve created this toolkit to help you get up and running with ISO27001 quickly and easily, using best practice documentation methods.
TISAX stands for “Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange”. VDA ISA (TISAX) is a control system for security information. It provides guidelines to ensure an appropriate level of security for IT systems in the automotive industry. VDA ISA (TISAX) refers to the management of information technology as a critical infrastructure. In addition to data protection, this also includes all aspects of Information Security, such as confidentiality, integrity, and availability. It consists of requirements from VDA ISA (Verband der Automobilindustrie Information Security Assessment).
Yes. We would recommend getting a copy of the ISO27001 standard itself from the ISO official website and VDA ISA website. First of all without one, you may find that you spend more time than necessary trying to locate answers to your questions. Having the actual source document will help you better understand all the information needed for the implementation process.
And secondly during the certification process you will need to show auditor which criteria your ISMS is built against, so defacto it’s required for certification.
Normally, the whole process can take up to 12-18 months depends on the size and complexity of your organization, and there are a number of stages that need to be completed before you can be standard certified. Even though many organizations focus on Information Security, the implementation of ISMS is not easy for everyone. There is a lot of work involved to prepare for an audit and be ready for certification. Even more without proper planning, the cost of certification can be extremely high with little to no return on investment.
In the same time, from our practice we know it’s possible to acchieve certification much faster (4-6 month) and with less expenses. And a lot of our customers actually do that. ISMS Toolkit helps you cut certification time from 1-1,5 year to a few month saving thousands of budget in the process.
In addition, there are several more conditions that you should to consider:
- Having an information security responsible / project manager that is ISO or IT from start that is commited and can work every day or every other day on ensuring that tasks are carried out and defined processes are taken in place.
- Top management must commit and transfer responsibility to release documents to this person.
- Having an existing cert. like 9001 helps to achieve best target of 3-4 months.
- Size of organization has lower impact (e.g. 100-500 employees often the same), more number of locations is a bigger impact.
- Motivation to adopt new processes thorough departments.
- Close working with HR & IT.
ISO27001 is one of the top security management systems available. Setting up an Information Security Management System (ISMS) for your company can be a lot to take on. It requires a lot of risk assessments, policies, and procedures which all need to be reviewed and put together by someone in-house who has the necessary technical know-how. There is plenty of information security consulting companies out there that can provide an ISMS but they often charge a lot for their services and required additional onboarding projects. While external consultants are a good option for top-level companies, they are too expensive and time-consuming for small to medium enterprises. The cost of hiring an external consultant often is pretty high and required additional time to find and manage it.
Small companies with fewer than 100 employees can expect to pay less than €10,000. Companies with over 100 employees and over €10 million in revenue can expect to pay more than €50,000.
ISMS Toolkit designed to eliminate large money, time, and human resource spending on reinventing the wheel by using proven ready-made templates and processes. Focus on what is essential for your life and business instead. Prevent thousands spent on consultants delivering the same toolkit and save over 90% compared to the cost of ISMS consultant with no effect on the documentation quality and business outcomes.
Doing the wrong things for the right reasons is still doing the wrong things. Without a clear strategy, step-by-step plan, and the help of a third party, achieving certification take months of research, trial, and error. That’s why we created ISMS Toolkit.
ISMS Toolkit gives you clear overview of the whole process.
See exactly what needs to be done. A well-organized and structured system that gives you an overview of the full scope, timeline all information you need. Get a clear understanding of how much technical work is to be done so you can plan and estimate your project before going into detail.
The audit gives you the opportunity to see how your information security management system (ISMS) stacks up to the requirements of ISO27001. The risk of not passing the ISO27001 audit is very real. If your information security management system (ISMS) is not in line with the requirements of ISO27001, you run the risk of non-compliance, which could lead to hefty financial penalties or even losing customers. This is why you need a plan in place so that you can be as prepared as possible before going into the audit.
Internal audit:
Internal audit can’t be failed but can lead to poor results. There is no direct influence on the external audits besides consuming time. The most common result is remedy discrepancies, so you need to re-do it. To do so you can always contact us to look into results to remedy discrepancies and help you to come up with a better solution.
External audit:
The audit can result in one of three possible outcomes: compliance, temporary certificate, or non-compliance. The most common one is compliance. This is where everything is in order and there are no outstanding issues. However, sometimes an organization will receive a temporary certificate due to outstanding issues that need addressing. The last outcome is non-compliance. This means you’re not audited properly or your systems don’t meet the requirements, so you require at least one improvement action before the next audit date.
We suggest to! Most of the documents described in security standards are mandatory. These documents act as proof of a proper Information Security Management System. To verify your compliance auditor will review all the ISMS documentation, which means that what is not written down in your documentation needs to be proven in another way. Having all required ISMS documentation in place is a key element of successful security standards certification.
Yes, sure. We believe information security doesn’t need to be hard. Our goal is to give companies the tools they need to tackle the topic of “information security” themselves. ISMS Toolkit designed to help you implement ISMS yourself with step-by-step guidance and support without time and budget consuming external consulting services.
Yes, but can be a variety of persons like IT manager, quality manager, or something close to IT, Data protection officer also possible. We also offer the position of external ISO as a bookable service.
Yes, we can help you with auditor assessment. In addition to support and assistance through the process, we would be happy to advise and support you with audits with our customizable service options.

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