Use information security to make your business better

Information today is considered as one of the most valuable things for every organization. Today’s hackers use different methods to reach the desired information, so you better take care and individual care to not become a step in the violation of the company's system. Many people are trying to destroy the reputation of somebody for different reasons, so there comes the need to include reputation management as a part of the organization, so you can be a little more secure. As the information security plays a very important role in the protection of the assets of some company, every organization needs to take care for this important segment. Even there cannot be some specific formula that can guarantee a hundred percent security; there is a benchmark set of standards that are created to make sure companies have an adequate security level, with efficient use of resourses.  Some of the most common and used standards for information security are:

•    The ISO standards- a group of standards where belongs ISO/IEC 27002:2005, ISO/IEC 27001:2005, ISO/IEC 15408 (Evaluation Criteria for IT Security, ISO/IEC 13335 (IT Security Management). All of them have a specific function that pays attention to different segments, in order to satisfy everybody’s needs.

COBIT- of the Control Objectives for Information and related Technology, which is a control frame work. He links all initiatives from IT to the companies’ business requirements. As well, these security standards organize the IT activities into a widely accepted process model and identify the major IT resources. This set of standards is adapted for both small and large organization and lately is one of the most used on the international level. 

•    ITIL- The information Technology Infrastructure Library, of better known as ISO/IEK 20000 series, actually is a collection of the best practices in IT service management, which puts his focus onto the IT service processes and always puts users’ needs on the center.