Course: ISO27001 Information Security Management Foundation

Information security today is high on the board agenda.  External and internal threats and legal, regulatory & contractual compliance requirements are all combining to make effective information security a key 21st century management challenge.

This one-day foundational information security management course is designed for:

• Information security managers
• Business managers
• IT managers
• Quality managers
• Project managers
• HR, legal and business users

This 1 day course will be a mixture of presentations and short group workshop sessions. Full course materials will be provided.

This course benefits everyone who want to know more about:

• How ISO 27001 is helping companies around the world compete more effectively
• How ISO 27001 helps organizations meet their legal, regulatory and contractual compliance objectives
• How ISO 27001 helps increase user productivity and reduce IT problems
• About the benefits of using ISO 27001(BS7799) to guide their information security activities
• How to use ISO 27001 and ISO 17799 together
• Planning to develop and implement an ISMS based on ISO 27001.

 There are no formal entry requirements. This course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to information security management, and is the essential pre-qualification for the ISMS Implementation Master Class.

• Commercial drivers for ISO27001
• The information security concepts of availability, confidentiality, integrity
• The purpose of the international standard
• The relationship with ISO 17799
• Control objectives and controls
• An overview of the controls in Annex A
• The most significant controls in the standard
• The benefits of implementing ISO 27001 in their organisations
• Maintaining certification
• Penalties for non-compliance