
Why is ISO 27001 vital for your business?
What would we do without computers? Letters, e-mail, Internet, Skype, databases, Customer Management Systems, photos, PPPs... The list goes on. All of these programmes and applications manage data and information of some sort, be it personal, company, or client related. In today's competitive marketplace this information is very valuable, both to you and to your rivals.
However, your information is continuously open to threats from many sources. For example,
- Faulty hardware, buggy software or computer viruses can corrupt information or make it unusable.
- Fire or flood can destroy the computers that store information.
- Hackers or unscrupulous employees can steal information.
As many high-profile cases have shown, loss of information can ruin a business, or severely compromise it's reputation. Clearly, without well-defined policies and procedures for managing the security and integrity of your essential business information, your business is wide open to unacceptable risks.

