The ISO / IEC 27000 standard family helps organizations keep their information assets safe.
Using this standard family will help your organization manage the security of assets, such as financial information, intellectual property rights, employee information, or information provided to you by third parties.
ISO / IEC 27001 is the best-known standard within the standards providing requirements for an information security management system (ISMS).
There are more than a dozen standards in the 27000 family, you can see them below.
ISO / IEC 27000: 2018
ISO / IEC TR 27019: 2013
ISO / IEC 27001 ISMS
What is Information Security Management System?
A ISMS is a systematic approach to managing sensitive company information to remain secure. It involves people, processes and IT systems by implementing a risk management process.
It can help small, medium and large enterprises in any sector keep their information assets safe.
In the past, the information was on paper. Preservation was perhaps a lot easier. But today the information is in the electronic environment and it is unbelievably fast and easy to copy and spread through the possibilities of communication technologies. All organizations now protect information continuously seeks to question and control the security of information. Information securitymeans protecting the integrity, confidentiality and availability of information. It is one of the most important factors in ensuring the continuity of an organization's business. Compensation may not be easy if information is lost. Therefore, in today's developing and ever-changing conditions, the importance and the need for protection of information are much more for organizations.
In this respect, information security issue is important not only for the main firms but also for the companies that manage the information on behalf of others, such as the subcontractors that produce goods or services to this firm. The assurance that the information of the organization is protected is to be given to the customers.
In the meantime, information security means not only to ensure that information is confidential. An information that should remain confidential should of course be confidential. However, the fact that only authorized persons can access this information is the subject of the information security system. Therefore, information should be provided to authorized users, access to information by unauthorized persons and to prevent, change or copy information.
Information Security Management System As this requirement is achieved, the results of the controls and measurements to be performed during this protection are also obtained and the necessary countermeasures are taken. Otherwise, if an organization cannot ensure the security of the information, the customers may be victimized, the activities of the organization may be slowed down, maybe the resources may be unnecessarily consumed, the company may suffer image loss and may be under the financial responsibility of third parties.
In order to avoid all these drawbacks, the company has ISO 27001 Information Security Management System standards will be sufficient. With the establishment and operation of this system, many risks will be determined in advance and precautions will be taken.
ISO 27001 Information security is not a legal requirement. However, considering that electronic information is open to a large number of risks, establishing this system is a requirement of the information age.
As with other ISO management system standards, ISO / IEC 27001 certification is also possible but not mandatory. Some organizations choose to apply the standard to take advantage of the best practice, while others decide that they want to get approval to give customers and customers confidence that their recommendations are being followed.
TÜRCERT approves ISO 27001 certification to applicants at the end of certification audits.
Many organizations in the world have ISO / IEC 27001 certification.
For more detailed information about what ISO 27001 Information Security Management System is and how to install it, you can contact the staff of the TURCERT certification body.