Revenue awarded Information Security Standard for Website
The Chairman of the Revenue Commissioners, Josephine Feehily, on Monday (22/02/10) accepted the ISO27001 Certificate in the Revenue Data Centre, Dublin, from Padraic White, Chairman, Certification Europe and Michael Brophy, Lead Auditor, Certification Europe.
ISO27001 certification is a globally recognised Information Security Standard which is being awarded for Revenue's internet facing sites - www. revenue.ie and www. ros.ie
The standard is independently audited and sets requirements in areas such as information security organisation, asset and data handling, system planning and development, day-to-day operations, networks, incident handling, compliance, personnel, business continuity systems and physical location security.
There are approximately 6,100 companies in the world which have achieved the standard of which 30 are located in Ireland (http://www.iso27001certificates.com/
).
Certification Europe are the independent auditors for this standard in Ireland.
[Ends 24/02/2010]