What an ISO consultant
can offer to your company?
ISO 27001 standards,
is a new member of security paradigm offered by ISO 27000 families that
thoroughly deal with the information security domain. The standard deals with
physical and digital security issues. An
organization can also effort to be ISO 27001 certified but to achieve services of professional ISO27001 KSA, consultants
are required.
Role of consultant
ISO 27001 KSA consultants can work with an enterprise in two ways either they can help
in becoming the certification compliance by conducting audits or can advise implemental recommendable
changes in its organizational structure. An organization must remember that
standard does not provide comprehensive details and in order to work well with the standard, hired consultants must have
business experience. Ideally,
a senior security professionalist
can suit the best.
How to select them?
There are few questions to ask the firm before hiring a
consultant, such as
- What qualifications
your selected consultants possess? Is CISSP, CISM or CGEIT certifications
highlighted in their CV?
It is advised to organizations engaging professional
consultants to ask the success rate of their past involvements.
- How much experience they have with ISO 27001 or other
security standard implementation?
It is expected from ISO 27001 consultancy firm to possess
extensive experience in the field of security.
It is recommended for an organization to check the references
or feedback from their past clients. Check the success rate and if it is low
then opt for a better competitor.
Remember the accreditation is very expensive in terms of fees and
consultancy time.
ISO 27001 consultants are vital to seek this certification but
only specialist consultant can help you as not everyone is pro in skills.
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