The Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) has identified the need for securing its IT systems as a part of the strategy to create a secure cyber security ecosystem by implementing ISO 27001:2013 Information Security Management System.
Various activities for the implementation of ISMS in BSP are currently on as per planned schedule under the leadership of the Plant’s GM (C &IT), a BSP press release issued here on Friday stated.
Two specialised training programs on ISMS are being conducted at BMDC to train the employees from C&IT, INCOS and BE departments.
These include training program on ISMS implementation support aimed at understanding the processes involved in establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining and improving ISMS as defined in ISO 27001:2013 and a training program on developing internal auditors for ISO 27001:2013 which shall deal with the Internal Auditing concepts, Audit principles along with the concepts of ISO27001:2013.
Accordingly, the Plant’s HRDC arranged for the training programs at BMDC from August 17 to 20, 2015 with the expert faculty from M/S Bureau Veritas Certification India Pvt. ltd., Kolkata.
The inaugural ceremony of the training programs was held on August 17 in the presence of l Umakant, GM(I&A), SPS Jaggi, GM(BE), R Sreenivasan, GM(C&IT) and Siddharth Dubey, DGM(HRDC) at BMDC.
“Information Technology has become an integral part of the business processes of any organisation and any interruption or data loss can adversely affect the interest of the organization,” the press release stated.
With the advent of e-services and e-commerce involving various modes of financial and business transactions through PCs, laptops, tabs and mobiles and its volumes growing leaps and bounds day-by-day, the cyber security concerns and threat perceptions to IT security of any organization orindividuals is also growing.
In today’s context, Information Security has become a subject of paramount importance. In view of this, every organization is making efforts to safeguard its IT Assets from the risks due to threats and vulnerabilities through various measures for Information Security.