What Is ISO 9000 Standards?
ISO 9000
is a set of interrelated ideas, principles and rules and could
therefore be considered a system in the same way that we refer to the
metric system or the imperial system of measurement. ISO 9000 is both an international standard and until year 2008, was a family of some 20 international standards. As a standard, ISO 9000
was divided into 4 parts with part 1 providing guidelines on the
selection and use of the other standards in the family. The family of
standards included requirements for quality assurance and guidelines on
quality management. Some might argue that none
of these are in fact
standards in the sense of being quantifiable. The critics argue that
the standards are too open to interpretation to be standards anything
that produces such a wide variation is surely an incapable process with
one of its primary causes being a series of objectives that are not
measurable. However, if we take a broader view of standards, any set of
rules, rituals, requirements, quantities, targets or behaviours that
have been agreed by a group of people could be deemed to be a standard.
Therefore by this definition, ISO 9000 is a standard.
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ISO 27001 is often used as a template for other standards in the security industry and it's also seen as being a risk based compliance standard that can be apodted in different areas of the organisation. ISO 27001 specifies requirements for the establishment, implementation, monitoring and review, maintenance and improvement of a management system - an overall management and control framework - for managing an organization’s information security risks.
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