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Physical security and business continuity: establishing policies for physical access, managing visitors, owning/transporting traditional and mobile devices, business interruption, disaster recovery, and asset lifecycle management.

Human resources: conducting employee background checks, signing non-disclosure agreements, requiring compliance with information security policies, providing cyber awareness training, defining telework information security requirements.

Incident management: defining, detecting, investigating, and reporting security events and vulnerabilities, establishing escalation procedures, remedial actions, and communications strategies.

Assessments: engaging in internal and independent compliance audits.

Information security (IS) risk management: assessing risks regularly and in response to events, assigning a risk owner to each identified risk.

Asset management: engaging in an information asset inventory, identifying business-critical assets, completing a risk assessment when procuring external IT services.

Organizational controls: establishing an information security management system (ISMS), identifying responsible parties, engaging in risk assessment when classifying projects, defining internal and external IT service provider responsibilities.

Policies: identifying information security objectives aligned to business strategy, legal compliance, and contractual obligations.

The information security requirements include the following categories:

Data protection: controls aligned to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Prototype protection: requirements for protecting vehicles, components, and parts that the OEM classifies as needing it.

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Information security: basic controls based on ISO 27001 and assess according to the defined maturity levels.

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Assessment Level 3: comprehensive verification where auditors examines documents and evidence, conducts planned interviews with process owners, observes local conditions, observes process executions, and conducts unplanned interviews with process participants.

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“Assessment Level 2.5”: full remote assessment where auditor verifies whether information security fulfills applicable requirements but doesn’t engage in on-site activities.

Assessment Level 2 (AL 2): plausibility check where auditor reviews evidence supporting the self-assessment and conducting interview with the responsible party.

Assessment Level 1 (AL 1): low trust level assessment where auditor checks whether an organization has a self-assessment but looks for no additional evidence.

TISAX identifies the following assessment levels: TISAX applies to any organization providing products and services across the automotive industry supply chain including Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and their business partners, including those who provide:

Level 5 (Optimizing): Following and continuously improving a predictable process by providing dedicated resources.

Level 4 (Predictable): following and monitoring an effective and established process by reporting key performance indicators (KPIs).

Level 3 (Established): integrating standard process into overall systems, including documented process across dependencies with evidence proving sustainability and activity over extended period.

Level 2 (Managed): process that achieves objective is implemented and documented.

Level 1 (Performed): process implemented and achieves objective but not documented.

Level 0 (Incomplete): process not implemented or able to achieve objective.

The VDA ISA establishes five maturity levels for measuring an organization’s controls:

External audits in accordance with TISAX.

Self-assessment determining the organization’s current information security posture.Maintaining a criteria framework (TISAX ACAR)Īligned to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27000-series and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the VDA ISA acts as the basis for:.

The ENX Association provides governance for TISAX by: The ENX Association, a collection of automobile manufacturers, suppliers, and four national automotive associations, established TISAX to create an overarching industry standard and make reporting more efficient. The Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange (TISAX) is the certification process for engaging in the Verband der Automobilindustrie (VDA), the German Association of the Automotive Industry, Information Security Assessment (ISA). What is the Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange (TISAX)?