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ISO 27001 Certification Statistics

How many companies have certified under ISO 27001? You can find the answer here. So, under 7300 as of mid-August 2011.

Now, in another report from April 2008, there were 4500 certificates. With the distribution: Japan (2550); UK (370);India (430); Taiwan (175); China(110); Germany (90); and then a group of countries (Hungary, Italy, USA, & Korea) at 60.

The distribution remained pretty much the same, with Japan holding more than half of world-wide certifications. Japanese are mad about productivity, so by adopting a standard they accept a set of rules that work.

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The ISO/IEC 27000 Set of Standards Overview

The ISO/IEC 270xx is a set o standards regarding Information Security Management Systems (ISMS). The developer of this standards is the International Organization for Standardization http://www.iso.org/.

ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC27002 are derived from ISO/IEC 17799:2005 who is derived from BS7799 (British Standard).

Many standards regarding ISMS are under development and the published ones are subject to periodical reviews.

The ISO/IEC 2700x family is composed of three main categories:

  1. ISMS family of standards (ISO/IEC 27000 – ISO/IEC 27010) – covering specification, metrics, implementation guides, audit guides, risk management
  2. Sector specific requirements (ISO/IEC 27011 – ISO/IEC27030) – Telecos; Healthcare; Automotive; Lotteries
  3. Operational guidance (ISO/IEC 27031 – ISO/IEC 27059)
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