{"id":4668,"date":"2013-09-09T16:05:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T16:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multiacademstg.wpengine.com\/27001academy\/blog\/013\/09\/09\/is-iso-27001-among-the-top-iso-standards\/"},"modified":"2024-12-21T16:06:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T16:06:02","slug":"is-iso-27001-among-the-top-iso-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advisera.com\/27001academy\/blog\/2013\/09\/09\/is-iso-27001-among-the-top-iso-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Is ISO 27001 among the top ISO standards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know which ISO standards are the most popular? And whether ISO 27001 is among the most popular? There is both good and bad news for information security enthusiasts \u2013 ISO 27001 really is among the most popular, but it is insignificant compared to, say, ISO 9001.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;\">Top ISO standards<\/h2>\n<p>Unfortunately, there is no official data that is more current, but according to a 2011 ISO survey, these are the most popular standards worldwide:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/advisera.com\/9001academy\/what-is-iso-9001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISO 9001<\/a> (quality management): 1,111,698 certificates<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/advisera.com\/14001academy\/what-is-iso-14001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISO 14001<\/a> (environmental management): 267,457 certificates<\/li>\n<li>ISO\/TS 16949 (quality management for automotive-related products): 47,512 certificates<\/li>\n<li>ISO 13485 (quality management for medical devices): 20,034 certificates<\/li>\n<li>ISO 22000 (food safety management): 19,980 certificates<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/27001academy\/what-is-iso-27001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISO\/IEC 27001<\/a> (information security management): 17,509 certificates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note: this survey did not include ISO 22301, since it was published in 2012.<br \/>\n<div id=\"middle-banner\" class=\"banner-shortcode\"><\/div><script>loadMiddleBanner();<\/script><br \/>\n<div id=\"side-banner-trigger\" class=\"banner-shortcode\"><\/div><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;\">Trend looks good for ISO 27001<\/h2>\n<p>When we look at the trends, the situation is a bit better \u2013 ISO 27001\u2019s growth rate is among the highest, while at the same time showing the most stable growth among all the top standards (growth in % compared to previous year):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7252\" src=\"https:\/\/advisera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/09\/growth_rate3.png\" alt=\"growth_rate\" width=\"569\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/09\/growth_rate3.png 569w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/09\/growth_rate3-300x147.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;\">ISO 27001 by country<\/h2>\n<p>Since this is a very common question, let&#8217;s see in which countries ISO 27001 was the most popular (in 2011):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7253\" src=\"https:\/\/advisera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/09\/ISO-27001-by-country1.jpg\" alt=\"ISO 27001 by country\" width=\"466\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/09\/ISO-27001-by-country1.jpg 466w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/09\/ISO-27001-by-country1-290x300.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;\">The future<\/h2>\n<p>In my opinion, ISO 27001 will most probably continue its high growth, especially due to cybersecurity threats and an ever-growing reliance on information technology. Most likely it won&#8217;t become as popular as ISO 9001, but my guess is it will probably reach place #3 (right behind ISO 9001 and ISO 14001) in the next couple of years, and stay there for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>The areas where the number of certificates will grow the most are certainly China and India, but perhaps also the United States and Latin America. What do you think?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"notion-enable-hover\" data-token-index=\"0\"><em>To see how to implement ISO 27001 through a step-by-step wizard, and eliminate most of the manual work through automation,<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/advisera.com\/conformio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-token-index=\"1\"><span class=\"link-annotation-unknown-block-id-1092142182\">sign up for a free trial<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<em><span class=\"notion-enable-hover\" data-token-index=\"3\">of Conformio, the leading ISO 27001 compliance software.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know which ISO standards are the most popular? And whether ISO 27001 is among the most popular? There is both good and bad news for information security enthusiasts \u2013 ISO 27001 really is among the most popular, but it is insignificant compared to, say, ISO 9001. Top ISO standards Unfortunately, there is no &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[133,256,292,381,1517],"class_list":["post-4668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-iso-9001","tag-certification","tag-iso-14001","tag-iso-27001","tag-certificate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advisera.com\/27001academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advisera.com\/27001academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advisera.com\/27001academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advisera.com\/27001academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advisera.com\/27001academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/advisera.com\/27001academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103315,"href":"https:\/\/advisera.com\/27001academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions\/103315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advisera.com\/27001academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advisera.com\/27001academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advisera.com\/27001academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}