The CSIA Best Practices and Benchmarks 6.0 manual has been updated to reflect advances to all sections in general and significant improvements and additions have been made to general management to include a section on business ethics; sales and marketing to further differentiate between sales and marketing and expound upon the various facets of marketing; and cybersecurity to build upon and clarify this rapidly evolving segment of the industry
Some of the changes include Each section has undergone an extensive review for clarity and global significance Content throughout has been consolidated and reorganized New section on Business Ethics Risk Management updated to include cybersecurity attacks Human Resources Management updated to include drug screenings, authorization to work, and non-compete agreements Proposal Development section added to list of auditable items Updates to reflect current state of technology and cybersecurity standards, such as ISA 27001, NIST Cybersecuirty framework, as well as added requirements for the use of cloud services
Over the past year, EKB Groep has been a key contributor to the cybersecurity section of the new revision of CSIA’s Best Practices & Benchmarks Manual