ISO 27001
Information Security Management
ISO 27001 Overview
ISO 27001:2013 is a standard of requirements covering all aspects of information security within your organisation. This can vary from physical to intellectual to electronic security. You will establish what is critical to your business and how you therefore control and protect these assets. ISO 27001 Certification will give your customers peace of mind that their data is being held securely and provide your staff with the tools and infrastructure to do this.
ISO 27001 Benefits
Effective implementation of an Information Security Management System will ensure that you mitigate the risk of a data security breach and in the event of a breach to establish a plan to get your business back up and running with as little impact as possible. By achieving ISO 27001 Certification, your clients will be satisfied in the knowledge that you operate a Management System that will endeavour to secure information provided by them and managed by you.
ISO 27001 provides an excellent starting point for achieving the technical and operational requirements necessary to prevent a data breach. ISO 27001 promotes a culture and awareness of security incidents in organisations and can assist with GDPR Compliance. By managing the personal data that you collect, the ISO 27001 Standard helps towards your compliance to the GDPR.
Benefits of ISO 27001 Certification could include:-
- The ISO 27001 Standard is far reaching in all aspects of IT Governance, Information Handling, Data Protection and Privacy, creating a manageable, efficient and methodical approach to ensure regulatory compliance in these areas.
- More and more key customers are already insisting that suppliers demonstrate ISO 27001 compliance & full certification is increasingly becoming a minimum requirement in commercial decision making.
- Reduce time lost dealing with information security breaches.
- Reduce time taken to reinstate system after breaches or potential breaches.
- Helps you to comply with other regulations e.g. GDPR.
