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A new report from IT Governance reveals that whilst almost all security practitioners recommend the ISO 27001 standard for improving a company's security posture, only half of these adhere to the standard and even fewer have the appropriate personnel in place to manage it.
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ISO 27001 Global Report 2015 is based on a study of 245 senior executives and practitioners around the world and it reveals that almost all of these (96 percent) believe that ISO 27001 plays an important role in improving their firm's cyber-security defences.
Nearly 70 percent of respondents said that improving information security was the biggest driver for implementing the standard, followed by a requirement to align with information security best practice (62 percent) and gaining a competitive advantage (57 percent). Improved information security is also seen as the single most important benefit of ISO 27001 implementation (51 percent).
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