Any organization responsible to handle critical client data can be subject to maintaining consistent compliance with various security requirements and frameworks. The most effective approach in responding to these requirements is to implement a certifiable management system applied to information security as a measurable attribute of organizational strength, sound security policies and effective technical controls. As a result, implementing and maintaining an Information Security Management System (ISMS) compliant with the ISO 27001:2013 certification requirements has become an important milestone in achieving business results in most organizations where information is a critical asset.
However, once a product or service is sold and your organization becomes part of an information supply chain where all the actors have a degree of responsibility and liability in addressing residual cybersecurity risk, it is very likely that you’ll be required to implement a more advanced set of security controls and continually improve your security posture. This may result in the obligation to implement and certify an adaptive security framework such as NIST-CSF or to address security in the cloud infrastructure (ISO 27017, CSA or ISO 27018).