Managers who claim that their organizations comply with ISO/IEC 27001:2005 but that they see no need to go through the bureaucracy of getting the ‘badge on the wall’ are only deceiving themselves. The reality, I suspect, is that the vast majority of organizations that won’t submit their Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) to an external audit against ISO 27001, fear that, when it comes to the push, their systems would fail the test.
