For ISO 27001 and KSC auditors and consultants

If you audit or implement information security for a living, you can get a free Secvalis account with 10 machine slots. It exists so that you can check on your own test machines what the vulnerability management process looks like and what evidence it produces, without asking anyone for a budget or a demo call.

No money changes hands in either direction. You pay nothing for the account and we pay nothing for anything you say about the tool.

Who it is for

Certification auditors who look at vulnerability management during ISO/IEC 27001 audits, and consultants who set that process up on the client side. Two groups, one account, the same conditions.

What you will see in the account

  • A partner account is active from the moment the application is accepted and has 10 machine slots, so scanning can be tested on your own infrastructure.
  • The Evidence Pack is an archive with the management report, the ISO 27001 report, the EOL report, the risk acceptance register, the remediation plan, the audit log, the dataset and a manifest with SHA-256 checksums of the other files.
  • The audit log records decisions: risk and false-positive acceptances, owner assignment, EOL plans and acceptances, threshold changes, evidence freezes and reviews, incidents and account security operations. Export to CSV.
  • A risk acceptance requires a justification, a risk owner, a review date and information on compensating controls. The technical role can submit a request, which the account owner or administrator approves; they can also accept a risk directly.
  • Time to remediate is measured from the first observation of a vulnerability to its disappearance from a later full scan, not from a click in the interface.
  • Reports: the Evidence Pack, the audit log, EOL, ISO 27001, the management report, the compliance map, an editable vulnerability management policy template and frozen datasets with a checksum.

Conditions

  • The account carries 10 machine slots and the full functionality of the Starter plan. There is nothing to pay, now or later, and no payment screens appear anywhere in it.
  • The account is meant for testing and learning the tool. It is not meant for running production infrastructure, yours or anyone else's.
  • Access to a client's account is added to the same login only when that client invites you using the same e-mail address you give here. An invitation sent to another address will not be linked to that login.
  • The programme pays nothing. There is no commission, no revenue share and no payment of any kind for mentioning Secvalis to anyone.
  • We look at every application by hand and we may decline one without giving a reason. When the account is created, we set its review date 12 months ahead.

Impartiality

The programme is open to anyone working in the profession and it is not exclusive. Taking part does not oblige you to recommend Secvalis to anyone, does not depend on how many people you mention it to, and carries no payment of any kind. The account is granted on the same conditions to everyone, and nothing you say about the tool, in an audit or outside one, changes those conditions.

We expect nothing back: not pointing clients to the tool, not an opinion about it.

You may submit these terms to your certification body for assessment under its impartiality rules. We can provide additional information about the programme on request.

Apply

Six fields, no password and no account is created at this point. We read applications by hand. After approval we send an invitation to the e-mail address you give; if an application is not accepted, we do not send a separate message.

Who you are

A LinkedIn profile speeds up the review of your application.

Say briefly what you audit, and give your certification body or certificate number.

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If you are preparing for a KSC or ISO 27001 audit, start with these materials.