And with more professionals on the job market lately, it's a good time to beef up your team.
Here, CRN lists the reasons why ISO 27001 can make you a better IS professional.
1. ISO 27001 is internationally recognised, both the standard and associated auditing qualifications, so your experience will be too.
2. It is best practice: it is a distillation of genuine experience and thought, so you benefit from others' experience.
3. It is risk-based: it looks at what security a company actually needs rather than imposing a standard set of measures; it allows you to give appropriate, justified and cost-effective advice.
4. It is a management standard, not a technical standard: it provides a model for the management of security and so allows you to demonstrate decision-making skills.
5. It is holistic: it considers all aspects of information security, not just technical measures, so it demonstrates breadth as well as depth.
6. Organisations can be independently certified: it provides an external, independent benchmark for your security management.
7. It provides a process for ongoing risk management, allowing you to regularly review and analyse risk objectively.
8. It provides a process for security monitoring and improvement, allowing you to demonstrate the benefits of security and to justify investment in security.
9. It complements other management standards, such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 20001, allowing you to work with and understand other disciplines.
10. Every organisation that implements ISO 27001 has found that it has improved its management of information security - you can make a tangible, positive difference to the business.
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