What is ISO 27000(27K) Standard?

Hi, this is my article about ISO 27K standard. I hope this article will help you to get a basic idea about ISO 27K standard.

Let’s start with what a standard is,

Basically, standards mean the best practices. Also, we can say as standards are years of experience of achieving success by doing the same process or procedure for a long time. They are repeatable patterns that can be reused.

Types of standards,

1. Process standards

The Process standards outline abilities that should advance to improve the performance of an activity. Process standards are general abilities that may be used in any discipline and are not specific to any one field.

Examples:-

ISO — 9000 - Quality management systems standards

ISO — 27000 - Information security management systems standards

ISO — 31000 - Risk management standards

2. Product standards

The product standard is a term used to describe quality, safety, and other criteria for any product. This standard is a technical manual that explains how to make a product reliable, effective, and interoperable. Additionally, product standards create common procedures, technical specifications, and vocabularies across a range of businesses.

3. Service standards

The service standard outlines the conditions that must be met by a service in order to prove its suitability for the task being performed. For example, the standard for resolving customer complaints may include definitions, indicators of service quality and their levels, or a time frame for fulfillment.

4. Management standards

The Management Standards approach is a structured, proactive method for controlling the risks of work-related stress on your staff. It is a free toolkit that provides guidance on how to perform an acceptable risk assessment, how to prepare for it, and what to do with the results.

What is ISO?

ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies. The nonprofit organization ISO is made up of standards bodies from more than 160 nations, with one standards body for each member nation.

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What is a security standard?

Security standards are a set of rules for products or processes that provide consistency, accountability, and efficiency.

ISO-27000 — The international information security standard. Mainly ISO- 27K is a set of standards that starts from 27000 and about ninety standards in the ISO/IEC 27000 series (since some standards have multiple parts), more than sixty of which have been published so far. Basically, they are kind of documents that we have to buy from ISO. That documents include a set of rules and procedures to maintain in our business or organization. After we include those procedures in our organization ISO auditors will visit the organization to check our progress and quality. Then they will provide the ISO-27K certification.

For more details about ISO- 27k standard list-https://www.iso27001security.com/html/27000.html

If you have an ISO-27K certificate that's not mean a full secured business or organization. But you can tell your organization is working on information security and we can trust them more than other organizations.

Steps of getting ISO-27K certification.

1. List all the assets in the organization.

2. Do a risk analyst on assets.

3. Find out the High risks, Medium risks, and Low risks by the analyst

4. Select security controls accordingly.

5. Implement security processes or standards in the organization and use them.

6. Audit by the ISO and get the certification.

7. Repeat the process( Certification is limited to a time period and you have to do all the processes again to get the certification again. )

What does certified mean?

Successfully auditing by an independent auditor demonstrated you meet the requirement of the standard.

Also having ISO-27K information security standard protects the three aspects of information(CIA triad).

1. Confidentiality

2. Integrity

3. Availability

Benefits of being ISO-27K certified,

1. Quality assurance.

2. Higher levels of trust.

3. Improves security awareness.

4. Prevents downtime.

5. Attracts new business and employees.

6. Reduce human errors.

7. Reduces the risk of cyber attacks.

When things don’t work as they should, it often means that standards are absent.

If you are interested in having more knowledge of ISO standards better to refer — https://www.iso.org/standards.html

Small intro video about standards - https://youtu.be/AYBVTeqKahk

I think this will help you to improve your knowledge of the ISO-27K standard. See you soon with a new article.

Happy learning!