ISO 27001, done properly, and built to last.

Stenward helps technology companies achieve ISO 27001 certification with senior-led implementation that fits how your business actually works. No bloated frameworks. No junior consultants learning on your time. Just a clear path to the certificate your customers are asking for.

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ISO 27001
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Certification readiness
72%
Stage
Status
Lead
Scope & Context
Complete
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Risk Assessment
Complete
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Controls Selection
Complete
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Policies & Docs
In progress
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Internal Audit
Scheduled
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Stage 2 Audit
Booked
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The situation

A customer is asking for ISO 27001. And you don’t have a compliance team to deliver it.

For most technology companies, ISO 27001 doesn’t become a priority until it’s suddenly urgent — an enterprise deal stalls in procurement, a security questionnaire lands, a prospect asks for the certificate before they’ll sign.

Suddenly certification isn’t a someday project. It’s between you and revenue.

But you’re a lean team. You don’t have a GRC function, a compliance manager, or someone whose job is to know what ISO 27001 actually requires. Hiring one is slow and expensive. A big consultancy is overkill and priced like it. And a self-service platform still leaves all the real work — and all the judgement — to you.

You need someone senior who can simply take this on, do it properly, and make it fit a company your size.

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The offer

ISO 27001 implementation,
end to end.

Stenward takes you from wherever you are today to a certificate you can rely on — and an ISMS your team can actually run.

Senior-led from start to finish

Every engagement is led personally by a senior practitioner who has built and defended ISMS programmes in real environments. You work directly with the person doing the work — not a sales team that hands you to a junior once the contract is signed.

Built for how you work

We design controls that fit your business, your size, and your stage — not a generic template bolted on from the outside. The result is an ISMS your team adopts naturally, because it reflects how you already operate.

Made to last beyond the audit

Certification is the start, not the finish. We build an ISMS you can sustain through every surveillance audit that follows — with a clear roadmap for what matures as you grow.

Track record

Real experience across the full information security lifecycle.

5
Frameworks maintained through a complex corporate acquisition
0→✓
Zero-to-certified ISMS built from scratch under tight deadlines
100%
Senior-led delivery on every engagement — no handoffs

Situations we've handled

Stenward's work spans the situations technology companies actually face — building an ISMS from scratch under a tight certification deadline, maintaining certifications through surveillance audits across multiple frameworks, and holding compliance together through high-pressure corporate change.

Frameworks and standards

Our experience covers the full spectrum technology companies care about:

ISO 27001
ISO 27701
ISO 22301
SOC 2
PCI DSS
GDPR
Cyber Essentials
ISO 42001 Coming soon

What this means for you

Stenward brings understanding of your environment, your auditors, and what it takes to get through certification cleanly. We've guided companies from 5-person startups to 500+ person enterprises through every scenario — platform migrations, team transitions, acquisition disruptions, aggressive timelines, and the thousand small decisions that separate a compliance project that sticks from one that becomes a burden.

Why experience matters in ISO 27001

A certification body checks your documentation. We help you build an ISMS that survives real life — one your team will actually use because it fits how you work. That requires having seen how compliance breaks in the wild and knowing what actually works under pressure.

Our services

What we deliver.

The compliance function you don't have to build.

Enterprise-grade rigour without the enterprise-grade overhead. One senior practitioner covers what would otherwise need a team or a costly hire — and can stay on as your ongoing compliance capability after certification.

ISO 27001 Implementation

End-to-end certification, from scoping to passing your stage 2 audit.

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Gap Analysis

A clear, honest assessment of where you stand against the standard and what it will take to get certified.

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ISMS Maintenance

Ongoing senior oversight to keep your certification alive through surveillance audits, without hiring a full-time compliance team.

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Internal Audit & Readiness

Independent internal audits and pre-audit readiness checks to make sure you're ready before the certification body arrives.

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Security Questionnaire Response

Fast, practitioner-grade responses to the security questionnaires enterprise buyers send during procurement.

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Security Awareness Training

Tailored security and data-protection awareness training your team will actually engage with, deployable through your existing tools.

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Client Outcomes

Client outcomes that speak for themselves.

Build from scratch

Building an ISMS from scratch, against the clock

A remote-first technology company needed ISO 27001 certification readiness with a hard deadline and no existing management system. Stenward built the entire ISMS from a blank page — scope, risk assessment, controls, policies, evidence — and had the organisation certification-ready within roughly three months.

Breadth under pressure

Five frameworks through a high-stakes acquisition

After an acquisition dissolved an established compliance team, an enterprise software company faced surveillance audits across ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 22301, SOC 2, and PCI DSS with no one to run them. Stenward took on the entire estate single-handedly — maintaining every certification through the disruption.

Ongoing maintenance

Maintaining and maturing an ISMS

A construction-technology SaaS company needed its ISO 27001 ISMS maintained and matured while handling enterprise security questionnaires. Stenward kept the ISMS audit-ready and supported a move into SOC 2 — earning an invitation to return a year after the engagement ended.

Process

How it works.

Our engagement follows a proven four-phase approach, tailored to your specific situation and keeping you informed and involved every step of the way.

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Discovery & Scoping

We start by understanding your environment, business context, and compliance maturity. We map your IT infrastructure, interview key stakeholders across security, engineering, operations, and HR, and define a realistic ISMS scope. This phase typically takes 2-4 weeks and ends with a clear understanding of where you stand and what certification will require.

✓ Environment mapping
✓ Stakeholder interviews
✓ Scope definition
✓ Initial gap assessment
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Build the ISMS

We develop your complete ISMS from the ground up, tailored to your business. This includes your risk assessment, core policies and procedures, control selection and design, and your Statement of Applicability. Throughout this phase, we embed controls into how your team already works rather than imposing external compliance structures. This is the heaviest lifting phase and typically runs 4-6 months depending on your complexity.

✓ Risk assessment
✓ Policies & procedures
✓ Controls design
✓ Evidence gathering
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Audit Preparation

Six to eight weeks before your stage 2 audit, we conduct an internal audit to stress-test your ISMS against the standard. We identify gaps while there's still time to fix them, document findings, and work with your team on remediation. We also conduct a management review and ensure all evidence is organized and audit-ready. This phase is typically 6-8 weeks and dramatically reduces surprises during the real audit.

✓ Internal audit
✓ Management review
✓ Finding remediation
✓ Evidence organization
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Certification & Beyond

We attend both your stage 1 (documentation audit) and stage 2 (compliance audit) with your certification body, supporting you through every question and clarification. Once certified, you have an ISMS that's genuinely audit-ready and that your team understands. Many clients ask us to stay on as ongoing compliance support — surveillance audits, finding management, documentation updates, and new questionnaires — without the cost of hiring in-house.

✓ Stage 1 & 2 support
✓ Certification
✓ Optional ongoing support
✓ Post-cert confidence
Daniyal Tanveer
Daniyal Tanveer
Founder, Stenward
ISO 27001 Lead Implementer · CIPP/E · Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)
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Let’s talk about where you are.

Whether you have a deal waiting on certification or you’re getting ahead of what’s coming, the first step is a conversation. No pressure, no obligation — just a clear, honest view of what ISO 27001 will take for a company like yours.

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