ISO/IEC 27004:2016 provides guidelines intended to assist organizations in evaluating the information security performance and the effectiveness of an information security management system in order to fulfil the requirements of ISO/IEC 27001:2013, 9.1. It establishes:
a) the monitoring and measurement of information security performance;
b) the monitoring and measurement of the effectiveness of an information security management system (ISMS) including its processes and controls;
c) the analysis and evaluation of the results of monitoring and measurement.
ISO/IEC 27004:2016 is applicable to all types and sizes of organizations.
Advantages of implementing ISO 27004 based measurement
The following list shows some of the advantages of implementing ISO 27004:
- Provides seamless integration with the ISO 27001 standard based ISMS
- Provides structured, quantitatively focused, and easy to understand metrics and measurements
- Provides constant review of trends and better visibility of security risks and weak links in the security posture
- Provides comparability of the security at different times and between different organizations.
- Provides increased accountability and improved information security effectiveness
- Assists in management review and provides decision indicators for continual improvement of ISMS
- Provides quantifiable inputs for resource allocation decisions
- Creates comprehensive repository for security metrics data
- Provides streamlined security reporting process
- Provides overall data security, cost savings and increased efficiency