ISMS is a complete system that provides measures to secure organizational workings and assets to the optimum. With the fast growth in technology, more risk factors are involved and ISMS acts as a tool to identify:

An organization’s information assets

The threats to those assets

The vulnerabilities that might be exploited by those threats

The impact on an organization if the loss of confidentiality, integrity or availability (CIA) of any asset was to occur

Appropriate controls and implement to manage the vulnerability

It is also important for:

Establishing an effective incident management process

Validating the existence or adequacy of business continuity arrangements

Ensuring that there is an ongoing compliance and monitoring mechanism in place

Validating the adequacy of physical & environmental security arrangements