How do the ISO management system standards work?
Henville: ISO management system standards require organizations to follow a disciplined process to manage their “quality”, “environmental” or “information security” issues, while at the same time allowing the organization the flexibility to set objectives, targets and controls that make sense to their business. Organizations can become registered to an ISO management system standard like ISO 9001 or ISO/IEC 27001, which means that they have been audited by a 3rd party as meeting the requirements of the standard. For example, thousands of companies around the world have been registered by QMI, as a division of CSA Group, as to meeting the requirements of ISO 9001. We expect that over the next few years hundreds of organizations will become registered to ISO/IEC 27001, which QMI is positioned to support. Nymity: Who is QMI? How does QMI help organizations wanting to be certified to ISO/IEC 27001? Henville: QMI, which stands for Quality Management Institute, is North America’s leading man
