An Information Security Management System (ISMS) is a set of policies and procedures for managing organizational confidential data and help to segregate data (Confidential/Restricted/General, etc.) of the organization. ISMS helps to manage security controls and risk across the organization. To maintain the organization’s security triad CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) ISMS is essential.
The aim of ISMS is to reduce the risk and ensure the business continuity of the organization.
ISO 27001 recommends and mandates that all required information should be documented with proper identification and approval from the management. Whenever any change gets implemented in an organization, the relevant documents should be updated accordingly and stakeholders should be informed of the update or changes implemented.
An organization should maintain tracking of performance and implementation so it can be helpful for new enhancement in infrastructure or new processes. Compliance activity with the different departments should be performed periodically that will showcase the organization as to where they stand in the ISMS journey and to achieve the objective/s.
After the compliance activity and internal audit, the organization gets an opportunity to improve in ISMS by way of Gap analysis report. To get the overall picture of ISMS the organization is required to perform internal audits frequently (Once or twice in a year or as per organization policy).
The journey and intent to implement and achieve the ISMS in an organization will increase the trust of its clients.
ISO 27001/ISMS is a basic guideline to start the implementation of information security in the organization. Any organization can implement ISMS that wants to achieve information security. It depends on the nature of business and there are mandatory and discretionary clauses and controls that the organization can implement to achieve ISMS.
https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/information-security-management-system-ISMS
https://ostec.blog/en/general/iso-27001/
Credits:
Mr. Dhananjay Deo
Author,
Trupal Patel
Audit and Compliance department
Varutra Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
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