Implementation of ISO 27001 in Qatar
ISO 27001:2013 is one among the 22,000 ISO standards published by ISO till date, in this blog I will be explaining you about implementation of ISO 27001 certification in Qatar. We will not only restrict this topic to the same but also discuss about its specifications, advantages of getting ISO 27001 certified and many more which in some way I believe will clear some of your doubts regarding this topic. Let me start by explaining about ISO, ISO stands for International Organization for Standardization which is the most popular and trusted organization at the global level which is involved in the process of setting standards that are market relevant and help consumer as well as manufacturer. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and has members from across 165 countries that meet annually at the General Assembly.
Specifics
of ISO 27001:2013
ISO 27001:2013 (Information Security Management
System) standard is dedicated to those organizations who wish to keep the data
of their organization safe and secured under management control. It sets guidelines
for keeping an effective data management policies at place so that the data of
the organization cannot be modified, altered or deleted without the
intervention of moderators.
Data safety is a very crucial aspect for any
organization, with continuous advancement in technology and increase in number
of active internet users, data theft has become a serious issue in recent
times. So, the need of the hour is to have a better data architecture that
complies with international policies, hence ISO 27001 in Qatar
helps achieve this feat in The state of Qatar.
Audit
Process for ISO 27001
There are three steps (general) of external audit
process for ISO 27001 (Information Security Management System).
1.
Analysis
It is the preliminary process and a kind of informal review which helps to understand the data and security policies of the organization. This step helps auditors as well as the organization to get familiarize with the data management and information security policies of the organization.
2.
Audit
This step is a more formal documentation process where compliance with the Information Security Management System (ISMS) is checked with the organization, like a data security team review, the data policies and all the shortcomings are rectified and made to comply with ISO norms.
3.
Certification
After both the process of preliminary examination and completion of audit reports, finally the organization is ISO 27001:2013 certified and provided with the certification.
There’s an additional step which is the follow up,
which is a kind of review in which the compliance of the organization to the
standard is reviewed and it is done annually during the lifetime of
certification.
Benefits
of getting ISO 27001 certified
It has multiple benefits which help organization a
lot to monitor their policies.
·
It helps to achieve a strong data
management and information security policies for the organization.
·
It helps them in their customer relation
as customer might feel confident that their data is in safe hands and it cannot
be misused.
·
It helps you to stand on a global scale
with reputed organization as you have been complied with international norms.
·
It saves you from public embarrassments
of malware attack on your systems.
Conclusion
Fun
Fact:
There are around 4.66 billion active internet users around the globe (50% of
world population uses internet). This increases the data flowing around the World
Wide Web which increases the chances of more cybercrimes, data theft and many
more such things. So, it is very important to set regulations for those
organizations and authorities that deal with data to comply to globally accepted data policies. ISO 27001:2013 is one such standard that fits the need and
is globally recognized standard, set up by ISO, there are many other ISO certification in Qatar that
solves many other problems like this. If you want to get your organization ISO certified
you must know that ISO doesn’t provide certificates. It only sets standards;
certificates are provided by external bodies.
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