Why education is our best weapon against cybercrime. The Internet has been one of the biggest winners in the past year’s pandemic, with traffic and transactions reaching unprecedented levels in 2020. Unsurprisingly, the number of malicious attacks and activity has risen with it. According to INTERPOL Secretary-General Jürgen Stock, “cybercriminals…
Screening for viruses and communicable diseases has experienced great advances in recent years, enabling a high number of people to be tested faster, more safely and prevent the spread of infection. ISO is at the forefront of developing standards that will help healthcare organizations and governments respond more rapidly and…
More and more, health systems are addressing the concept of patient-centered care and ISO is at the forefront of this development. Industry experts expect significant changes to shake up the healthcare landscape in the next few years, which will affect both practitioners and patients. Many are the result of a…
New guidance on cybersecurity frameworks just published. As our world gets increasingly digitalized and interconnected, the threats of cyber-attacks rise with it. Organizations need resilient and secure systems and processes in place to protect them, and an effective solution is a cybersecurity framework. Two new ISO guidance documents have just…
Our biggest threats and how we can prepare for them. Climate change, human environmental damage and increasing inequalities due to the COVID-19 pandemic are amongst the top threats our world will face in the next ten years, according to the latest World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report. Effective global cooperation,…
New standard enables organizations to share best practice for greater energy efficiency. Implementing an energy management system (EnMS) can result in many benefits, such as cost and energy savings, and when established across multiple organizations, these benefits are even greater. A common EnMS enables the sharing of knowledge and resources…
A new handbook to accompany ISO 22000 has just been published. Keeping food safe involves the combined effort of every single player in the food production chain, from farm to fork. That means everyone needs to be speaking the same language and adhering to the same rules. ISO 22000 is…
Views from the experts on occupational health and safety in a pandemic. It’s been around a year since the COVID-19 pandemic turned our world upside down, and that includes the world in which we work. Certainty has hung up its hat, normality looks unlikely to return and unpredictability is here…
With cloud computing revolutionizing the way that we socialize and work, ISO standards are providing much needed answers. For many of us, the cloud is something like a virtual hard drive. A place in the ether to keep our data, pics and videos safe and secure. The cloud adds flexibility…
It’s widely accepted that artificial intelligence will have a huge impact on our lives in the coming decades — but how can we be sure this new technology is not just innovative and helpful, but also trustworthy? To address issues of trust in artificial intelligence (AI), a new technical report…
