What is TISAX®?
TISAX® stands for Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange. TISAX® enables mutual acceptance of information security assessments in the automotive industry and provides a common assessment and exchange mechanism that ensures the secure sharing of sensitive information to partner companies, to inspire trust throughout the automotive supply chain.
TISAX® was established by VDA (the German association of the automotive industry) and is operated by ENX Association, who have assessed and confirmed BSI’s status as a TISAX® approved audit provider.
Developed by automotive industry security experts and based on international information security management system (ISMS) standards like ISO/IEC 27001, TISAX® provides a catalogue of requirements, covering virtual, physical and social aspects of information security, specific to the automotive supply chain. This catalogue is referred to as the Information Security Assessment (ISA) and forms the basis of the assessment conducted by BSI as an approved TISAX® audit provider.