The benefits of implementing an information security management system (ISMS)

An ISMS helps protect all forms of information, including digital, paper-based, intellectual property, company secrets, data on devices and in the Cloud, hard copies and personal information.

Implementing and maintaining an ISMS will significantly increase your organisation’s resilience to cyber attacks.

An ISMS provides a framework for keeping your organisation’s information safe and managing it all in one place.

It protects your entire organisation from technology-based risks and other, more common threats, such as poorly informed staff or ineffective procedures.

Constantly adapting to changes both in the environment and inside the organisation, an ISMS reduces the threat of continually evolving risks.

Thanks to the risk assessment and analysis approach of an ISMS, organisations can reduce costs spent on indiscriminately adding layers of defensive technology that might not work.

An ISMS offers a set of policies, procedures, technical and physical controls to protect the confidentiality, availability and integrity of information.

The Standard’s holistic approach covers the whole organisation, not just IT, and encompasses people, processes and technology. This enables employees to readily understand risks and embrace security controls as part of their everyday working practices.