Boxfish Labs helps technology providers, suppliers, startups, scaleups, and SMEs align their information-security practices and documentation with the expectations of automotive manufacturers and mobility partners -so they can prepare for TISAX assessments with a practical, usable programme.
Automotive and mobility organisations increasingly require suppliers to demonstrate that they can protect confidential information, manage access, handle data responsibly, and maintain reliable information-security practices. For many vendors, TISAX becomes visible when a customer, tender, partnership, or procurement process asks for assessment results or evidence that security expectations are being met.
TISAX is not just a document request. It requires security practices, responsibilities, controls, evidence, and ways of working that can stand up to assessment and customer scrutiny. The challenge for growing suppliers is to meet those expectations without copying enterprise bureaucracy that does not fit their business.
Boxfish Labs helps organisations translate automotive security expectations into a proportionate roadmap. We assess your current maturity, identify the most important gaps, strengthen the relevant governance and controls, and prepare the documentation and evidence you need for a more confident TISAX journey.
TISAX assessment expectations are based on the information-security requirements used in the automotive ecosystem. The exact scope and assessment objectives depend on your relationship with customers and the type of information, services, locations, and activities involved.
In practice, preparation often includes:
The goal is not to imitate a large automotive manufacturer. It is to show that your organisation understands the risks in its role and has appropriate, repeatable controls in place.
We help interpret the request, clarify likely scope and priorities, assess the current state, and turn the work into a practical roadmap.
We help establish the governance, policies, procedures, control ownership, risk approach, and evidence needed to demonstrate that security is managed systematically.
We help strengthen the handling of confidential information, customer data, development assets, prototypes, restricted systems, personal data, and information shared across suppliers.
We map key service providers, subcontractors, hosting locations, access arrangements, data flows, contracts, and dependencies that may affect your assessment and customer confidence.
We design practical awareness, onboarding, role-specific guidance, simulations, and reinforcement that make security expectations usable for people working with customer information and systems.
An External CISO can provide sustained leadership, risk oversight, policy governance, reporting, and continuous improvement as customer demands and the business evolve.
Understand what the customer or partner requires, the relevant assessment objectives, locations, systems, products, information types, suppliers, and timeline. A clear scope avoids both unnecessary work and damaging omissions.
Review governance, policies, risk management, information handling, access, infrastructure, suppliers, physical and operational security, incident management, awareness, documentation, and existing evidence.
Create a staged plan focused on the gaps that most affect assessment readiness, customer expectations, sensitive information, and operational risk. Assign owners, resources, dependencies, and realistic deadlines.
Put the required policies, controls, procedures, training, supplier arrangements, technical safeguards, evidence, and review routines into practice. Documentation should support real work -not only the assessment.
Conduct internal checks, resolve priority issues, collect evidence, validate responsibilities, prepare relevant teams, and make sure the organisation can explain how its controls work in practice.
Defined roles, leadership support, policies, decisions, escalation paths, and accountability for information security across the organisation.
A repeatable way to identify, assess, treat, document, accept, and review risks associated with information, systems, people, suppliers, and operations.
Practical controls for classifying, storing, sharing, accessing, retaining, and disposing of confidential customer information, development materials, prototypes, and other sensitive assets.
Appropriate identity management, access control, remote-work practices, device security, authentication, onboarding, offboarding, and protection against unauthorised access.
Visibility of critical suppliers and subprocessors, security expectations in contracts, appropriate due diligence, review routines, and awareness of dependencies that affect customer information.
Clear procedures for reporting, responding to, communicating about, recovering from, and learning from security incidents or disruptive events.
Role-appropriate training and reinforcement so people understand how to protect customer information, recognise threats, handle incidents, and work securely.
Policies, procedures, records, approvals, risk decisions, training records, supplier reviews, technical evidence, internal checks, and other materials that demonstrate the controls are operating.
Get a focused readiness assessment, gap analysis, scope support, security-policy guidance, evidence review, implementation roadmap, and preparation for customer or assessor conversations.
Useful when
you have a specific TISAX request, tender deadline, assessment goal, or need to understand the required work before committing to a larger programme.
Gain ongoing cybersecurity leadership to define strategy, manage risk, oversee policies and controls, coordinate implementation, report to leadership, and maintain security maturity beyond the assessment.
Useful when
your organisation needs sustained programme ownership, customer assurance support, and a clear security leader without an immediate full-time hire.
Build role-relevant security awareness for employees, contractors, technical teams, customer-facing teams, and leaders. Use microlearning, workshops, simulations, security champions, and audit-ready evidence.
Useful when
people need to handle sensitive information more safely and demonstrate awareness of their responsibilities.
Understand where information and workloads are stored, processed, accessed, backed up, and transferred. Assess cloud, vendor, jurisdictional, and operational dependencies that affect security, resilience, and customer requirements.
Useful when
customers ask where data is hosted, how access is managed, which cloud providers are involved, or what alternatives exist if a critical supplier fails.
Connect automotive security work with GDPR, employee or customer data, data-processing agreements, records of processing, privacy notices, DPIAs, and data-subject rights where personal data is involved.
Useful when
your services process personal data or TISAX-related work overlaps with privacy, vendor, and contractual obligations.
TISAX is a trusted assessment and exchange mechanism used in the automotive industry for information-security assessments. It helps automotive organisations and suppliers demonstrate alignment with relevant security expectations in a standardised way. The applicable assessment objectives and scope depend on the customer relationship and activities involved.
No. ISO 27001 is an international standard for information-security management systems. TISAX is an automotive-industry assessment mechanism with specific expectations and objectives. A mature ISO 27001-aligned programme can provide a useful foundation, but it does not automatically mean a supplier is ready for every TISAX assessment scope.
Timing depends on your existing maturity, the required scope and objectives, number of locations, complexity of systems and suppliers, availability of internal owners, and assessment schedule. We help you create a realistic plan based on your actual situation rather than promising a generic timeline.
A smaller organisation may need to prepare for TISAX when an automotive customer or partner requires it. The work should be proportionate to the services, information, locations, and risks involved. Small size does not eliminate security expectations, but it does affect the appropriate implementation approach.
Yes. We can help interpret customer questions, identify existing evidence, clarify gaps, prepare accurate responses, and build an improvement plan. This can be a useful first step before a formal assessment process.
Yes. Continued Information Security Advisory or External CISO support can help maintain controls, manage changes, prepare for recurring customer requests, improve awareness, review suppliers, and sustain the evidence needed over time.
Tell us what your automotive or mobility customer has requested, what information you handle, and where you are today. We will help you identify the scope and next steps that matter most.
