Security measures are designed to protect your company’s assets and to make sure that proprietary information doesn’t get into the wrong hands. However, security teams also need to align with the compliance needs of an organization – there are numerous standards and frameworks designed specifically to enhance cybersecurity, deter fraud, and protect user data.
Compliance measures can help your organization to become more secure by providing a set of clear frameworks, checklists, and best practices that reduce risk across an industry. ISO 27001, for example, outlines all of the components of a strong information security management system (ISMS) – in doing so, it is comprehensive. In this case, a compliance framework can easily be adapted across industries to create strong security strategies, and it might benefit an organization to use ISO 27001 as a blueprint for designing its security strategy instead of a secondary process.