ISO 27001: 2013 is the internationally recognized best practice framework for an Information Security Management System (ISMS). This is one of the most popular information security standards in the world.
What are the advantages of ISO 27001: 2013?
ISO 27001 will help reduce information security and data protection risks for your organization. Poor information security can be costly, whether it is your own valuable information or that of your customers. Many of the ISO 27001 requirements also meet those of the GDPR and the Data Protection Act and offer much greater assurance of information overall. The implementation of ISO 27001 will demonstrate to regulators that your organization takes the security of the information it holds seriously and, once the risks have been identified, has done all that is reasonably possible to remedy the situation. From IT security, physical security, broad cybersecurity, privacy protection, to simply adopting best practices, ISO 27001 is the recognized standard for from which others rely on.
Potential fines for non-compliance with the RGPP have raised a lot of concern, but an Information Security Management System (ISMS) will help reduce the risk of infractions, allow you to react more quickly and demonstrate controls in place, in order to reduce the potential impacts of these security risks.
ISO 27001 will help win new customers and retain existing businesses
As this is the internationally recognized "best practice" standard, the people you want to work with will feel safe and secure, ensuring the security of their assets and the security of your information.
ISO 27001 is saving time and money
Why spend a lot more money to solve a problem (for example, loss of information for customers), especially in case of a crisis, while it costs a fraction of that in advance to be better prepared for anyway? In addition, customers are increasingly looking for assurance of your information security and data protection capabilities. Your sales department will likely report the amount and duration of "information requests" that they have to deal with on a regular basis as part of the sales process and the growth of the sales process. All this adds unnecessarily to the "cost of sales" of your organization. Holding an ISO 27001 certification will minimize the details you need to provide.
ISO 27001 builds a reputation and builds trust in the organization
The situation does not get much worse for an organization when information indicates that their systems have been hacked and that customer data has been exposed and exploited. With an ISO 27001 information security management system, you will be better able to identify the risks of the breach and prevent them before they occur. Like many things in business, trust is important. But demonstrating that you have been independently audited strengthens that trust.
ISO 27001 can be implemented in any type of organization, for profit or not, private or public, small or large. It has been written by the world's leading experts in the field of information security and provides a methodology for implementing information security management in an organization. To become certified ISO 27001 allows companies to become certified, which means that an independent certification body has confirmed that an organization has implemented information security in accordance with ISO 27001.
