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ISO/IEC 27001, explained simply

ISO/IEC 27001 is the international standard for managing information security. It is the most widely recognised security certificate in the world, and for many European buyers it is the default answer to "prove you are secure".

Standard
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 (information security management system)
Version
ISO/IEC 27001:2022
Jurisdiction
International (ISO/IEC)
Catalogue last verified
2026-07-16

Who it is for

Any organisation that holds information worth protecting — which in practice means any software company with customers. European buyers often prefer it to SOC 2, so companies selling on both sides of the Atlantic frequently end up doing both. The management-system clauses always apply; the Annex A controls are considered against a Statement of Applicability, where a control can be scoped out with a documented justification.

What is actually in it

Tawsik tracks every requirement in the published catalogue, grouped by its official numbering.

115requirements tracked

  • A. · 93
  • Cl. · 22

What evidence can prove — and what it can’t

We would rather tell you this up front than let a dashboard imply more certainty than it has.

22Provable from an inspectionChecked against your website or the repositories you select.
70Provable from a documentA policy, register or report you attach.
23Only you can answerYour own declaration, or a judgement that needs a human reviewer.

Where Tawsik fits

Tawsik is not a certification body. It shows your readiness from your own evidence, tracks which controls are still open, and — because it maps one canonical control to every framework that asks for it — reuses that evidence in SOC 2, ISO 42001 and NIS2 instead of asking you to gather it four times.

Tawsik is not a certification body or an auditor.

One set of evidence, every framework

Tawsik maps one canonical control to every framework that asks for it, so a proof you gather once counts everywhere it applies.

See where you stand

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Other frameworks

Tawsik guides you toward compliance. It isn’t legal advice.