Yes, it's official! Cisco successfully completed the ISO 27001 Certification across our entire services business worldwide. This important certification reinforces our commitment to protecting Cisco and our customers. With Cisco as a trusted partner, customers can be confident that every possible safeguard is in place to protect their data.

Every single one of us has been directly impacted or knows someone who has been the victim of data breaches that have become an unfortunate norm in headline news. For a business, that breach loses customer confidence and also costs a company money. The security of our customers' data has never been a higher priority. ISO 27001 Certification means Cisco security policies and procedures have been independently verified, providing a systematic and proactive approach for effectively managing security risks to confidential customer information.

The ISO 27001 Certification is a global, industry-wide specification for an Information Security Management System (ISMS), which is a management framework through which an organization identifies, analyzes and addresses information security risks. To achieve this certification, Cisco underwent a comprehensive independent, third party audit of our security practices and methodologies by T