## Benefits of ISO 27001

- Easier sales
	- Accelerates your customer’s Purchase Decision Process ("Sell with Confidence. Worldwide.")
	- Certification for this standard is increasingly becoming a knock-out criterium for [Examples of vendor selection questionnaires](../../../../Sparks/Examples%20of%20vendor%20selection%20questionnaires.md).
- Raises your infosec maturity level   
	- Raise your [Maturity Models](../../../../📚️%20Literature%20notes/Maturity%20Models.md) from incident driven to improvement focussed
	- Continual improvement of security
- Increased resilience
	- be prepared for events that threaten your business continuity
- Accountability / responsibility
	- [Corporate social responsibility](../../../../Literature%20notes/Corporate%20social%20responsibility.md)
	- Voorkómen maatschappelijke ontwrichting (voorbeeld: een massale cyberaanval legt de Rotterdamse havens stil)
	- Encourage transparency. "We believe that transparency, such as having a permissive vulnerability disclosure policy (VDP) that encourages security research, is a key characteristic of a good, mature security program".
	- https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/data-protection-corporate-social-responsibility