Information Security is at the core of each business.
From the local GP’s surgery to leading global giants, client records, financial data and intellectual property must be safeguarded against damage, loss, and theft.
The requirements of the ISO 27001 Information Security Management standard mandate that the requisite controls and processes be put in place to meet and protect your business needs.
Encompassing people, processes, and infrastructure ISO 27001 will not only mitigate against security risks to the business, but it will also help safeguard your assets and more importantly your employees.
By implementing ISO 27001 your organisation adopts a systematic approach to handling, managing, and storing sensitive corporate and customer information.
Achieving ISO 27001 certification demonstrates that you have identified the risks, assessed the implications, and put in place systemised controls to limit any potential damage or threat to the organisation.
Most organisations have several information security controls. However, without the ISO 27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS), controls tend to be somewhat disorganized and disjointed, having been implemented often as point solutions to specific situations or simply as a matter of convention.
Security controls in operation typically address certain aspects of IT or data security specifically, leaving non-IT information assets (such as paperwork and proprietary knowledge) less protected overall.
Moreover, business continuity planning and physical security may be managed quite independently of IT or information security while Human Resources practices may make little reference to the need to define and assign information security roles and responsibilities throughout the organisation.
