What is this standard about?
Security management is vital to the strategic management of modern organizations. It protects financial well-being and reputation. It also supports the ability to capture and exploit opportunities and competitive or service delivery advantage. While there are many standards covering specific security topics, such as alarms, CCTV and screening, BS 16000 provides a much needed generic, high-level, security management framework.
Who is this standard for?
It’s for anyone with responsibility for aspects of security in an organization – large or small, public or private.
Why should you use this standard?
BS 16000 helps support an organization’s viability, productivity, reputation, resilience and sustainability.
Even where security solutions have already been implemented, BS 16000 can help monitor and review security management and identify ways to improve it.
The standard:
- Provides the vocabulary and basic principles of security management
- Demonstrates how security can be embedded in an organization
- Discusses security solutions, including physical, technical, information, procedural and personnel solutions
It includes guidance on:
- Developing a security framework
- Risk assessment
- Understanding your organization's context
- Implementing and monitoring the security programme
BS 16000 also complements existing management standards including ISO 27001, ISO 14001, ISO 22301, ISO 22313, ISO 31000 and ISO 9001.
