Insights on ISO 27001, compliance automation, and information security.
An EU consultant can run an entire audit practice on a frontier model key and never once ask where client evidence actually goes. The moment a client's security team asks, the answer is an A.5.14 finding waiting to happen. Here is the honest fix: EU processing aliases, zero retention, and a receipt on every response.
A recent r/grc thread about ISMS tooling taught us more about this market than most vendor reports. Here is what it said and what we took from it.
Directive (EU) 2022/2555 addresses Member States, not undertakings. The fines, the reporting clocks and the authority you answer to are written in national law, and those laws arrived on twenty-seven different calendars.
ISO 19011 changed edition in May 2026. The failure mode it exists to prevent did not: the internal audit that has, by drift, stopped disagreeing with management.
Teams read the important label as NIS2-lite and scope their controls down. The security measures in Article 21 are the same either way; the tier changes supervision, some enforcement tools, and the floor on the national fine maximum.
Financial entities keep mapping ISO 27001 controls onto DORA articles and calling the residue paperwork. DORA's real additions are duties that must be performed, to a specification and on a clock, that a certificate was never designed to test.
"ISO 27001 certified" is not a yes-or-no fact about a company. The real claim is the scope statement on the certificate, and it is checkable.
The Cyber Resilience Act's reporting duty applies from 11 September 2026, more than a year before its essential requirements. Teams planning backwards from the 2027 CE mark are sequencing the work in the wrong order.
ISO 27001 never asks for a heat map. What it does ask for (consistent, valid and comparable results) is the test most risk matrices fail.
The EU agreed to push the high-risk deadlines to December 2027 and August 2028. The reason it moved should change how you read it: this is a warning about your scope, not breathing room for your roadmap.
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