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ISO 27001·5 December 2025· 8 min read

Information security on a budget — practical ISO 27001 for SMEs

ISO 27001 has a reputation for being expensive and enterprise-heavy. For an SME, the 2022 revision is more achievable than most consultants make it sound.

The 2022 revision reduced the number of Annex A controls from 114 to 93 and reorganised them into four themes. For an SME, the practical implication is that a proportionate control set is genuinely defensible.

Focus areas that matter

Access control, backup, incident response and supplier security are the four areas that will always be examined closely. Get these right first and the rest of the system tends to follow.

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