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Is ISO 27001 the right path for your career?

If you want to pursue a career in information security, you may be wondering how to get started with it, when there’s such a variety of laws and regulations enforcing information protection. ISO 27001 the leading ISO standard for information security management, might be the right choice for professionals looking towards an information security career.

But where do you begin your learning path? In this article, you will learn some options on where to start learning about ISO 27001 and information security, the trainings available, and which one is more suitable for you.

Benefits of ISO 27001 training certificate for your career:
  • Find a job more easily
  • Be better recognized in your existing job
  • Advance more easily within an organization

Benefits of ISO 27001 training for your career path

Information security knowledge based on ISO 27001 can be very beneficial to professionals, because ISO 27001 is growing as a standard adopted by organizations worldwide. This means you can:

Find a job more easily, since ISO 27001 provides qualifications for professionals to work in virtually any situation involving information security—and today, cybersecurity is a growing trend as well. This is also valid if you’re a consultant; you will find new clients more easily if you can demonstrate your competence with a certificate from a course.

Be better recognized in your existing job, demonstrating that you are up to date with some of the most-used practices for planning, implementation, operation, control, and improvement of information security.

Advance more easily within an organization, because with ISO 27001 knowledge, a professional can go for different specific fields, such as information security management or information security management assurance (i.e., auditing), or go deeper into the technical aspects (e.g., secure software development, communications security, (Read more...)

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from ISO 27001 & ISO 22301 Blog – 27001Academy authored by ISO 27001 & ISO 22301 Blog – 27001Academy. Read the original post at: https://advisera.com/27001academy/blog/2021/06/07/is-iso-27001-the-right-path-for-your-career/