ISO 27001 Information Security

ISO 27001 – the Standard

ISO 27001 aims to ensure that adequate controls are in place to address the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information. The standard is designed to ensure the selection of adequate and proportionate security controls. This helps an organisation to protect their information assets and give confidence to any interested parties. These parties include customers, trading partners, employees and the needs of society in general.

Benefits of Compliance

  • Fulfils core requirements for ‘doing business’ with many Public and Private sector customers.
  • Independently verifies that your organisational risks are properly identified, assessed and managed, while formalising information security processes, procedures and documentation.
  • Information security decisions and investments are based on risk assessment of relevant assets (including those of your customers) considering; Integrity, Availability and Confidentiality. Minimising the business impact and dealing effectively with security. incidents
  • Maintains awareness of all employees so they can identify and fulfil contractual, legislative and company specific security management responsibilities.
  • Demonstrates secure communications and data handling credentials.
  • Makes visible to all of your stakeholders the good governance controls and best practice processes implemented within your organisation.
  • Provides a solid foundation for further development of management systems to embrace other industry standards that are likely to become important in the future.

How we help

Teamwork can then help your organisation to implement an ISO 27001 compliant information security management system ensuring the selection of adequate and proportionate security controls and help your organisation to protect your information assets and those of your customers and partners.

For NHS organisations and partners, Teamwork offer assistance to achieve the requirements of the Information Governance Statement of Compliance (IGSoC) and successfully complete the Information Governance Toolkit (IGT).

In addition, ISO 27001 is designed to be compatible with other management system Standards such as ISO 9001 (Quality), ISO 14001 (Environmental), OHSAS 18001 (Health and Safety), ISO 20000 (IT Service Management) and ISO 27001 (Information Security). All or any combination of these complementary Standards can be integrated seamlessly. They share many principles, so choosing an Integrated Management System can provide you with outstanding value for money.