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Iso 27001

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Published 6th October 2010 |
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Hi All

Has anyone working towards or achieved the ISO 27001 standard. I'm seriously looking at implementing this in my own business. I can see that due to the nature of the work I do that it would add a "level of confidence" - given that there seems to be another data loss or breach every other day.

Any thoughts or guidance gratefully received.

Dave
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Good morning, Dave.

It might be worth checking out whether this is something that your competitors are accredited to, before spending any time or money.

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forum avatarwassat
7th October 2010 5:46 PM
Hi hdm

Done some checking around and yes ISO 27001 & 27002 have been achieved by potential competitors. There are also a number of others that are advertised such as ISO 17020 and 17025 - which may well become mandatory.

Looks like it's going to be the way to go. On a plus side I'm about to start writing a governance section in an IT strategy doc. That will include ISO 27001 as an objective. Should be able to gain a fair bit on help from that to transfer to my own co.

Regards
Dave

My own 2 cents worth would be that a company that had it would not make me spend money over a company that did not have it.

Having worked for an ISO 9010 company who had no clue how to run a company made me realize it was a joke.

tomsk

Yes, I can understand that, but in our experience there are potential customers that insist on ISO certificates when looking for a new supplier, especially the larger organisations.

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forum avatarConrad
14th October 2010 8:06 AM
My company is going through this now, We needed to get accredited to provide a certificate to one of our customers that we have taken on data disposal contract with.
From what i can see you can do it yoursef for around

forum avatarwassat
14th October 2010 10:44 PM
Hi Conrad

Thanks for this info. I'd be interested if you could suggest a "ball park" figure of what it's costing your company. I have one quote that starts at

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