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About the certification
Directing Information Security Audits in Germany
The ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor certification validates the capability to direct and execute first-party, second-party, and third-party audits of an Information Security Management System (ISMS). In the German market, where data privacy and compliance standards are exceptionally high, certified freelancers ensure your business processes align with international security benchmarks. These experts lead audit teams, manage audit programs, and communicate findings directly to executive stakeholders.
Key Competences of Certified Lead Auditors
Professionals holding this credential demonstrate deep expertise in conducting thorough security assessments. They possess the practical skills required to identify vulnerabilities, evaluate risks, and suggest corrective actions that strengthen organizational resilience.
- Planning and preparation of comprehensive ISMS audits
- Execution of on-site audit activities and interviews
- Evaluation of risk assessment and risk treatment plans
- Documentation of non-conformities and audit reporting
- Monitoring of corrective actions and follow-up reviews
Core Security Frameworks and Methodologies
The certification covers a wide range of information security standards and auditing methodologies. This structured knowledge ensures that audits are performed systematically, consistently, and in compliance with international expectations.
- Audit principles based on ISO 19011 guidance
- Requirements of the ISO/IEC 27001 standard
- Assessment of ISO/IEC 27002 security controls
- Lead auditor roles, responsibilities, and code of ethics
- Integration with local regulations such as IT-Grundschutz
Engaging Freelance Auditors for German Compliance
German enterprises frequently engage freelance lead auditors to prepare for formal certification audits, conduct mandatory internal reviews, or assess the security posture of their supply chain partners. These specialists provide objective, external perspectives that internal teams might miss. Depending on your corporate policy, these freelancers can work fully remote, on-site at your German headquarters, or in a hybrid setup to guide your organization through complex audit procedures.
Meet FRATCH ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditors
Steffen Lotze
Data Protection Officer and Information Security Consultant
Last position:
Consultant for BSI IT Baseline Protection and ISO 27701 at German Society for International Cooperation
- Support in setting up and further developing the information security management system
- Collaboration with external consultants in the certification team for the support structure
- Participation in project planning, identifying and implementing necessary measures according to BSI IT Baseline Protection
- Professional support for in-house subject matter experts in preparing documents required for certifications
- Execution of tasks according to BSI 200-2
Paul Karnowka
Program Manager – Multi-Project Operational Stabilization (Operational Excellence)
Last position:
Program Manager – Multi-Project Operational Stabilization (Operational Excellence) at ITDZ - IT Dienstleistungszentrum Berlin
- Overall leadership of multiple strategic operations projects focused on workplace services, SLA framework, access management, certificate management, e-learning, backup & recovery, test management, and capacity management, as well as implementing system monitoring and feasibility studies for a 24x7 operation, partly including ServiceNow implementation
- Development of various ServiceNow operating concepts related to training, permissions, and emergency management as part of a new cloud-hosting initiative for the ServiceNow platform
- Board reporting and leading steering committees within the framework of corporate strategic objectives, as well as establishing new balanced scorecards to measure KPIs for optimization-driven project results
Alexander Sänn
Owner and Managing Director
Last position:
Lead Audit Conformity & IT Security Catalog at DAX group energy provider in the renewable energy sector
- Supported the implementation of §8a requirements of the BSI Act for critical infrastructures.
- Systematically prepared and supported internal and external audits, resolving previous deviations (HA, NA, VP)
- Implemented the specific requirements of the IT security catalog
- Developed training, created run books, and conducted assessments to ensure operational effectiveness.
Arnd Furken
Senior Manager
Last position:
Senior Manager at Gehrke Maas Consulting
Jens Brennscheidt
Senior Cyber Security Consultant
Last position:
Senior Cyber Security Consultant at Brennscheidt IT Consulting
ISMS consulting
Interim management
Conducting security analyses & audits
BCM consulting
Executive management
Valeri Milke
Associate Partner - Information Security Consulting
Last position:
Associate Partner - Information Security Consulting at Insentis GmbH
- Improvement of the Information Security Management System (ISMS) based on ISO 27001, NIS2, DORA, B3S, TISAX and BSI IT Baseline Protection
- Conducting comprehensive gap analyses to identify gaps and derive action plans according to the above standards and regulations; management and KPIs
- Data Loss Prevention strategy and implementation using MS Purview
- Vulnerability and patch management, security monitoring
- Risk analysis and threat modeling using the STRIDE methodology
- Development of vendor risk assessments, implementation of risk classifications, conducting supplier assessments and implementing technical monitoring solutions (e.g. Security ScoreCard)
- Securing cloud environments (AWS and Azure); expertise in CSPM/CNAPP (Wiz), cloud migration, secure CI/CD pipelines, container security and best practices in AWS, Azure and Office 365
- Application security: penetration testing, DevSecOps, OWASP, pre-commit hooks, key and secret management, IDE plugins, static source code analysis, dependency checks, container scanning, vulnerability management, CIS benchmarks and compliance
- Security assessment and hardening according to CIS benchmarks and cloud conformity in AWS, Office 365 and Azure
Peter Weileder
Program and Project Manager / Internal Auditor / CISO
Last position:
ISO 27001 Auditor for health insurance archive system at Health insurance company
The replacement of the existing archive system (document management system – DMS) on a host-based platform is well advanced.
The internal audit is meant to ensure the company's quality standards.
GDPR
ISO 27001 ff.
BSI
DORA
Patient data regulations
Host / Cloud / S3 / Container / highly scalable / Nuxeo
Budget: 50,000
Team: 1
Isabel Mundet
NIS 2 Compliance Expert
Last position:
NIS 2 Compliance Expert at SIEMENS Digital Industries Software
- Implemented comprehensive NIS 2 compliance programs through detailed gap analyses against ISO 27001, Siemens policies and controls
- Developed measurable success criteria for sustainable compliance structures
- Analyzed complex supply chains for systematic assessment of third-party risks
Thomas Ullrich
Senior Consultant / PM Infrastructure Services & Workplace Migration
Last position:
Senior Consultant / PM Infrastructure Services & Workplace Migration at Freelance
- All Windows clients are managed in a hybrid, central AD
- Client standardization
- Implementation of information security policy requirements
- Development of new infrastructure services delivered as a managed service by a new provider
- New IT platform is a central and secure directory service
- M365 Azure AD
- MS terminal services
- Zscaler
- M365 cloud for workplace management
- PaaS / SaaS is procured through a new provider
Ekrem Tunclar
Trainee Auditor ISO27001
Last position:
Trainee Auditor ISO27001 at GUT Certifizierungsgesellschaft für Managementsysteme mbH
- Clients: SMEs and public organizations
Arndt Schürg
Information Security Officer according to TISAX
Last position:
Information Security Officer according to TISAX at Automotive Supplier
Matthias Steinmann
Senior Security Consultant (freelance)
Last position:
Senior Security Consultant (freelance) at DVZ M-V
- ISMS and security concept for the Fabasoft e-file according to BSI 200-1/2, among others
- Structural analysis (A.1), modeling (A.3), and baseline protection checks (A.4)
- Preparation for OWASP penetration test, incident response plan, risk analysis
- DevOps Bitbucket, ARC42, IAM with Keycloak/AD, multi-tenant setup, DMS, SOC
- Emergency preparedness concept (BSI 200-4), operations and service concept (BSK), ITSM
Anette Göbel
Managing Director
Last position:
Managing Director at promismanagement services GmbH
- Leading and building integrated management systems (IMS) for quality (QMS), data protection and information security (ISMS), risk (GRC), and artificial intelligence (AI) in accordance with ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, ISO 21500, ISO 21502, ISO 37301, ISO 31000
- Governance, project, and transformation management nationally and internationally incl. enterprise and project governance
- Process development, optimization, and business process reengineering according to BPMN 2.0, Kaizen, IATF 16949, VDA, BPMN 2.0
- Compliance and risk management in the company and project context as well as connection to internal control systems (ICS) and Group Risk Compliance (GRC)
- Carrying out and leading internal audits and lead audits according to ISO 19011; audit management and test equipment / special equipment management
- Methodical and systemic coaching (IFS, Hakomi) as well as conflict moderation and change management
- Designing and delivering AI trainings, prompt engineering, and AI literacy workshops
- Advising on data protection impact assessments (DPIA), implementing EU GDPR, BDSG, and IT-SiG as well as NIS-2 and DORA
- Building and leading Program Management Offices (PMO) and introducing Project Management Office structures
- Contract management, clause-by-clause analyses, and project controlling according to PMI® standards incl. Earned Value Management
- Building knowledge, document, and content management systems (Confluence, SharePoint, EY iManage)
Christian Tchouta Yonbang
Senior Consultant / Lead Auditor
Last position:
Senior Consultant / Lead Auditor at Syngenity GmbH / TÜV Süd
- Support companies to fulfil requirements and to implement following management systems: ISO 9001, ISO 22301, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, TISAX
- Carrying out internal and external audits regarding the following standards: ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, TISAX
Jan Kopia
Consultant for Information Security & Auditor
Last position:
Consultant for Information Security & Auditor at Kopiasonsulting GmbH
Operational management of the company: building teams and infrastructure, developing products, analysis and implementation of IT security measures
Project assignments in the IT security environment focusing on establishing blue teaming activities (defensive processes and technologies) to defend against cyber attacks
Conducting red teaming processes, including penetration tests and security analyses for companies
Consulting on setting up Security Operation Centers and implementing SIEM systems, and building Computer Incident Response Teams (CSIRT)
Auditor for ISO 9001 and ISO 27001, § 8a, ISO 27019, § 11 1a EnWG, TISAX
Advising companies in critical infrastructures on information security and compliance with the IT Security Act
Building SIEM/SOC processes and SOC analyst work (Splunk, ELK-Stack)
Integrating data into monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
Consulting on BSI IT baseline protection, ISO 9001, ISO 27001, BCM, ITIL and risk management
Security assessments and penetration testing of IT and network architectures
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ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditors statistics
Typical experience
22 years
Average project duration
3 years
Certifications per freelancer
10
Top business areas
Information Technology, Quality Assurance, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Manufacturing
Most common languages
German, English, French
Bachelor's degree or higher
91%
Master's degree or higher
65%
Doctorate
13%
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Frequently Asked Questions
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An ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor is responsible for planning, executing, and leading audits of an Information Security Management System to verify compliance with international standards. A freelancer holding the ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor credential evaluates security policies, assesses risk treatment plans, and identifies critical vulnerabilities that need remediation.
While the implementer focus is on designing and establishing the security framework, the ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor focuses on independent evaluation and compliance verification. Auditors analyze existing systems objectively to ensure they function as intended, whereas implementers are the ones who build and maintain those systems.
This certification is typically issued by accredited training and certification bodies such as PECB, CQI/IRCA, or TÜV. These organizations ensure that the credential holder has successfully passed a rigorous examination and meets the strict professional experience requirements for auditing information security systems.
In Germany, strict data protection laws and the requirements of the IT Security Act make robust information security mandatory. Engaging a certified ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor helps German companies demonstrate compliance, pass supplier audits, and build trust with business partners who demand high security standards.
Yes, many auditing tasks can be performed remotely, including documentation reviews, process analysis, and remote interviews. However, for physical security assessments and sensitive data environment reviews, the ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor may need to conduct on-site visits to your German offices.
Candidates generally need a foundational understanding of information security principles and the structure of the ISO/IEC 27001 standard. To achieve the full ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor status, professionals must also demonstrate practical audit experience and complete a comprehensive training course followed by a formal exam.
Hiring a freelance ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor provides companies with an unbiased, external evaluation of their security posture. This is especially useful for performing required internal audits without pulling permanent staff away from their primary operational duties.
To maintain the certification, holders must continuously participate in professional development activities and regularly log audit hours. This ensures that a certified ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor remains up to date with evolving security threats, updated standards, and changing regulatory environments in Germany and globally.
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