| Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T Hydrocarbon) along with its Joint Ventures such as L&T Chiyoda and L&T Sargent & Lundy and eEngineering solutions Business Centre is the FIRST COMPANY IN THE WORLD CERTIFIED TO ISO/IEC 27001:2005 - IT Security Management System. The certification took place on the day one of the release of the standard from Bureau Veritas Quality International, UK and the list of eminent personalities who have complimented this achievement includes Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, former President of India. Responding to IT Security - International User Group based in UK and for ISO in Geneva, Mr. K. Venkataramanan, President (Operations) & Member of the Board, L&T, said. |
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| "Our EPC business environment, dealing with large LSTK projects, involves a variety of complex factors such as global level dependencies, co-ordination between players, and location issues, besides technology, competence and business risks. As such, it is only logical for us to leverage the information technology potential to meet our business objectives and grow a breed of satisfied customers. With the increasing use of IT in our day-to-day business operations, protecting the business critical information and information processing assets from all possible threats and vulnerabilities is more important now than ever before, considering the business dependency. |
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| IT security concerns have been uppermost in our mind, prompting us to collaborate with both governmental and non-governmental agencies and professional forums such as ISO/IEC (International Organisation for Standardisation / International Electro-technical Commission), BSI (British Standards Institution), ISMS IUG (IT Security - International User Group), etc., besides ensuring compliance to IT security best practices." |
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| We are proud to be part of the global developmental efforts on IT security management and to pioneer the trends." "The ISMS in accordance with ISO/IEC 27001 ensures formal structured business risks assessment and guides application of security controls and technology. It assures the top management of the consistency of actions and ability to respond to challenging business situations in the event of any disaster", he added. |
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