The ISO 27701 Standard is designed to help organizations protect and control the personal information they handle. The standard may be a standard of care for organizations to protect personally identifiable information and can be used to indicate compliance with worldwide privacy laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation.
The well-known ISO 27001 forms the basis and the new ISO 27701 builds on that foundation to provide a comprehensive set of controls for information security and protection of personal information. ISO 27701 Standard provides specific requirements and guidance for establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually updating the Privacy Management System (PIMS) as an Extended Information Management System (ISMS) extension defined in ISO 27001 in addition to information security.
As per ISO 27001 standard, ISO 27701 does not expect organizations to accept individual management in all situations. Instead, it requires organizations to understand the specific context in which they operate PII and to adapt a specific set of controls and related implementations of those controls to the proper function of their processing activities.
Considering the benefits of Compliance with ISO 27701 first requires compliance with the requirements of ISO 27001. They are designed to complement each other. Organizations that comply with ISO 27701 requirements will develop evidence of how they work to process PII, which can be used to enter into agreements with business partners where PII processing is appropriate and to clarify the organization’s processing of PII with other stakeholders.
Customers who are hosting vendors to operate and maintain PII on their behalf should consider an agreement to require those vendors to comply not only with ISO 27001, but also with ISO 27701 or certification under this standard if appropriate for data sensitivity. Even if the customer does not require vendors to be certified by an independent firm as it complies with the new standard, they can still seek to review their contracts to ensure that vendors can comply with ISO 27701 requirements. it is appropriate to include in these contracts.
Organizations who want to implement of ISO 27701 Certification which is provided by Punyam.com – an ISO/IEC 27701:2019 Consultancy Company that should consider taking the following steps:
- Micro–level survey for each and every department of the organization against the specific ISO/IEC 27701 requirements.
- Preparation of applicable documents required by ISO/IEC 27701 based on detail study of all activities of all departments of companies, including risk assessment, types of data, types of assets etc. for each of the activities performed by organization with the focusing on data privacy management.
- Training to all levels of employees for ISO/IEC 27701 requirements,
- Helps in effective implementation of system by periodic visit till assessment by Certifying body,
- Conduct internal audit to check readiness for the ISO/IEC 27701 Certification.
- Conduct management review meeting in presence of Top Management to guide the Company for effective implementation.
- Help during periodic assessment by Certifying body.
- Help in closing of non-conformities issued during the assessment.
So, to develop data privacy-related controls are necessary for every IT operational data processing organizations and some readymade ISO 27701 and EU GDPR Documents can be effectively used to educate vendors, employees, and other stakeholders.
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