IT Security Risk & Compliance Management

If your company has developed an Information Security Management System (“ISMS”) which is comprised of Policies, Standards, and Processes. The framework is implemented to protect [Company Name] against current and emerging security threats that could cause an information security incident. The company has legal obligations that must be clearly understood and addressed accordingly. 

Risk is the possibility of damage happening; Risk Management is the process of identifying, analyzing, and mitigating risk to an acceptable level by implementing controls to maintain an acceptable appetite and tolerance to risk. This standard sets out the requirements to enable informed risk-based business decisions from an information security perspective. To seed, the risk process an information security compliance program ensures the controls documented with the ISMS standards are working effectively and efficiently. This standard applies to all users of the company information and communication technology resources – including (but not limited to) staff (including casuals and volunteers), consultants and contractors, third parties, agency staff, and visitors to the company.

Appropriate data security controls reduce the likelihood (and impact) of data breach incidents during various phases of the data lifecycle. The purpose of this standard is to set out the rules for securing the companies' data during transmission and storage. This document provides best practice recommendations on information security management for use by those responsible for initiating, implementing or maintaining information security management systems (ISMS).

Nowadays, with the digitalization of our society, the need for data protection became more important. The latest IT Security Standards involve the application of technology to broader social and institutional contexts, and thereby contributes to the servitization of companies, and affects how they compete and interact. This document contains security technology solutions to protect data classified as “Highly Sensitive”, “Sensitive”, “Private” or “Public” as per the Data Classification Standard and Data Handling Guidelines. Specifically: