New Horizons Training and Education Blog

Let’s clear something up from the start.

ISO 27001 is not the boring part of the job.
Doing it badly is.

Because when information security is implemented properly, it stops being paperwork — and starts being power.

And the person who makes that happen?

The ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer.

January doesn’t shout.

It doesn’t arrive with fireworks or dramatic moments.
It comes quietly — with fewer emails, slower mornings, and that strange feeling that everything is possible but nothing has started yet.

And that’s exactly why January matters more than we think.

Two days before Christmas feels different.

The rush is mostly over.
The deadlines can wait.
The inbox is quieter — not empty, just softer.

It’s that small window where the year hasn’t ended yet, but it has already loosened its grip on you.

And that moment matters more than we think.

Calendars suddenly have space. Meetings are postponed with a casual “let’s pick this up in January.” Emails slow down, and even the busiest workplaces seem to breathe a little. It’s not that work disappears — it simply loses its urgency.

Every Christmas we do the same thing.

We decorate.
We eat too much.
We promise ourselves that:

“Next year will be different.”