ISO27001 certification, presented in February 1995 by the British Standards Institute （BSI）， and in May 1995 amendments made in 1999 to re-modify the BSI standard. Divided into two parts: BS7799-1, information security management rules BS7799-2, information security management system standard.
Benefits:
1 . Compliance with legal requirements
Obtain a certificate , you can indicate to the authorities , the organization complied with all applicable laws and regulations. In order to protect corporate information systems and security-related parties , intellectual property , trade secrets, and so on.
2 . Maintain corporate reputation , brand and customer trust
Certificates obtained , can strengthen information security awareness of employees, organizational information security behavior norms , reducing unnecessary losses caused by man-made causes .
3 . Perform information security management responsibilities
Obtain a certificate , will be able to prove itself in the security organizations at all levels are paid a fruitful efforts that management fulfill the related obligations .
4 . Enhance staff awareness , responsibility and relevant skills
Certificates obtained , can strengthen information security awareness of employees, organizational information security behavior norms , reducing unnecessary losses caused by man-made causes .
5 sustainable business development and competitive advantage
Establish a comprehensive information security management system , meaning that the organization 's core business continued to rely on the information assets have been properly protected , and the establishment of an effective business continuity planning framework to enhance the core competitiveness of the organization.
6 . Achieve risk management
Contribute to a better understanding of information systems , as well as the problems and find ways to protect and ensure the organization 's own information assets can be properly protected in a reasonable and complete framework to ensure that the information environment orderly and stable operation .
7 to reduce the loss , reduce the cost of
ISMS implementation , because of the potential to reduce the loss of security incidents and brings to the organization , when the information system is affected , to ensure ongoing operations and minimize losses.
Scope of application:
Information Security for every business or organization is needed, so the information security management system certification has universal applicability, without geographical, industry sector and company size. Judging from the current situation to obtain certification of enterprises, more is involved in telecommunications, insurance, banking, data processing centers, IC manufacturing and software outsourcing industry.