1. Information and information security management systems

1.1 What is information

Information is an asset which, like all the organization's other important assets, is essential to its operation and therefore needs to be adequately protected (information regulations: CNIL).

Information can be stored in various forms, digital or material. Information can be transmitted by various means, including mail, electronic or verbal communication. Whatever form it takes, or however it is transmitted, information always requires appropriate protection.

An organization's information depends on information and communication technologies (ICT). These technologies are an essential element in any organization, facilitating the creation, processing, storage, transmission, protection and destruction of information....