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What is ISO 27001:2022?
Information is critical to the operation and perhaps even the survival of your organisation. Being certified to ISO 27001:2022 will help you to manage and protect your valuable information assets. The standard is designed to ensure the selection of adequate and proportionate security controls. This helps you to protect your information assets and give confidence to any interested parties, especially your customers. The standard adopts a process approach for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining, and improving your Information Security Management System.
Who does the system apply to?
ISO 27001:2022 is suitable for any organisation, large or small and in any sector. The standard is particularly suitable where the protection of information is critical, such as in the finance, health, public and IT sectors.
ISO 27001:2022 is also highly effective for organisations which manage information on behalf of others, such as IT outsourcing companies: it can be used to assure customers that their information is being protected.
Benefits of ISO 27001:2022
- Improved Information Security Adopting the standards undoubtedly drives the process to improve security and reduce risk.
- Management Assurance Management and others can be more assured of the quality of a system or other entity if a recognised framework is followed.
- Diligence Compliance with (or certification for) an international standard can be used to demonstrate due diligence
- Benchmarking The standard is often used as a measure of status within a peer community. Compliance with it can provide a bench mark for both the current position and future progress.
- Marketing Adherence to the standard is often used as a beneficial differentiator in the commercial market place
- Inter-operability Systems from diverse sources are more likely to work correctly together if they follow a common guideline or structure.
- Security Awareness Implementation of the standards normally results in greater security awareness within the organization.
Stages to Implementation
- Creation of a management framework for information This sets the direction, aims, and objectives of information security and defines a policy which has management commitment
- Identification and assessment of security risks Security requirements are identified by a methodical assessment of security risks. The results of this assessment will help guide and determine the appropriate management action and priorities for managing information security risks.
- Selection and implementation of controls Once security requirements have been identified, controls should be selected and implemented. The controls need to ensure that risks are reduced to an acceptable level and meet an organisation’s specific security objectives. Controls can be in the form of policies, practices, procedures, organisational structures and software functions. They will vary from organisation to organisation. Expenditure on controls needs to be balanced against the business harm likely to result from security failures.
QMS Solutions services
We provide full systems support at all stages of development. Services include:
- Completion of an initial assessment and gap analysis
- The preparation of all required systems documentation
Note: systems requirements may be addressed via digital / automated systems. - Training and mentoring throughout systems development
- Completion of internal audit as a pre-requisite to certification
- Support with the completion of the annual management review as a pre-requisite to certification
Steps to Certification
QMS Solutions will complete the application for certification and liaise with the certification body to ensure a successful outcome.
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