Did you know that 71% of consumers say they would very likely stop doing business with a company if data is mishandled? The ISO 27001 standard helps ensure companies can achieve business goals and maintain operations in the event of sudden data loss.
ISO 27001 is a risk-based standard for establishing and maintaining a company’s information security risks. It outlines requirements for managing and protecting data in terms of confidentiality, integrity, and availability in order to reduce risk and improve security posture.
Organizations must identify sensitive corporate data, assess risks, and make plans to protect the data against the growing threat of ransomware, to ensure peace of mind and continued operations.
The importance of meeting ISO 27001
Even though it isn’t mandatory to follow ISO 27001, it is widely accepted as a set of guidelines as it specifies requirements for maintaining, managing, and safeguarding corporate data. If a company doesn’t follow ISO 27001, a lot is at risk. This could directly impact company operations, company reputation, or even lead to financial or legal repercussions.
Companies with ISO 27001 certification are seen to be more reliable and trustworthy. As ISO 27001 certification is required by many partners and businesses, companies might receive lawsuits if found to be non-compliant. This could result in fines or a loss of business opportunities.
In the event of a ransomware attack or sudden data loss, a company’s daily operations or even revenue streams might be impacted. Partners or consumers might ask questions. In more serious cases, this could lead to damage in brand reputation and loss of customer trust.
Ensure operational continuity with a purpose-built backup appliance
Even though ISO 27001 sets the framework for data protection, organizations still need to take practical steps to meet those requirements. Synology ActiveProtect helps companies implement measures to meet ISO 27001 with centralized management, strong security controls, and reliable backup and recovery capabilities.
Data access: According to ISO 27001, users should have access to information on the basis of their authorization. Synology ActiveProtect comes with role-based access controls, in which viewing rights, backup, and restore rights are granted to authorized personnel only.
In addition, user management can be centralized via Windows AD and LDAP integration. ActiveProtect also supports SSO. User identity can also be verified by enabling SSO and using existing MFA methods configured on your SSO/MFA server.
Data integrity: As ISO 27001 states that data should be able to be restored in the event of loss, corruption, or deletion, ActiveProtect comes with multiple security features. This includes built-in immutability so that data cannot be modified or deleted and automatic backup verification so that all backups are checked for accuracy. In addition, ActiveProtect includes data integrity safeguards so that errors or corrupt data are detected and repaired via self-healing capabilities.
Users can store clean copies of their backups in a secure and isolated location as a way to protect against ransomware with ActiveProtect’s air-gapped backups.
With ActiveProtect’s built-in hypervisor, users can test and validate their disaster recovery plan regularly in a sandboxed environment without impacting the production site.
Data redundancy: As ISO 27001 mentions redundancy to ensure data availability, ActiveProtect comes with data redundancy safeguards. Set up data retention policies on ActiveProtect to safeguard data for a specific amount of days and store immutable copies of your backups or store redundant copies of your backups at an on-prem or cloud remote storage location of your choice. Learn more
Data security: As ISO 27001 mentions that sensitive data should be secured, ActiveProtect uses various methods to safeguard your data. ActiveProtect uses end to end secure data transmission to store data. When data is transferred to a remote storage site, AES-256 is used.
Data reports: To meet ISO 27001’s audit requirements, ActiveProtect lets users review, monitor, and export logs related to backup and restore activities. Users can receive a summary of their activities via email to identify and flag potential issues in advance. Users can also use ActiveProtect’s log forwarding capabilities to centralize logs so that organizations can stay notified and ensure their data is safe.
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