🔐 ISO 27001 is not ‘too heavy’ for start-ups and NIS2 suppliers.

In fact, it is wise to start early.

All too often we hear:

‘ISO 27001? Isn't that something for large organisations?’

‘It's complex and expensive.’

‘ISO? That's a paper tiger.’

Perhaps that was the case in the past.

But today, that is certainly no longer the case.

For start-ups and scale-ups, the opposite is true:

• You are already building your processes
• You are defining responsibilities
• You are professionalising your approach to customers
• You want to demonstrate that you are secure and reliable

So why not structure it properly from the outset?

If you start early, security and governance will simply grow alongside your organisation.

That is cheaper, more efficient and strategically stronger.

If you wait too long, you will have to repair what has grown organically — and often uncontrollably — afterwards.

‘But doesn't ISO 27001 cost a lot of time and money?’

Not if you approach it smartly.

With tooling that matches the size of your organisation, you save on guidance and avoid bureaucracy.

Consider:

• automated onboarding
• predefined templates
• digital process guidance

This allows any organisation — small or still developing — to implement ISO 27001 in a structured and manageable way.

Strategic advantage as a supplier to NIS2 customers

For suppliers to larger organisations, it becomes even more relevant. More and more NIS2-compliant companies are asking their supply chain to demonstrate that their information security is in order.

Certification always involves costs — both initially and annually, regardless of the certificate or quality mark.

But ISO 27001 certification offers:

• international recognition
• administrative reliability
• demonstrable governance
• a professional image

For a start-up, this is not a burden. It is increasingly becoming a business requirement.

So the real question is not:

‘Is ISO 27001 too burdensome?’

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