We’re thrilled to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has achieved certification beneath the Korea-Personal Information & Information Security Management System (K-ISMS-P) standard (efficient from December 16, december 15 2020 to, 2023). The evaluation by the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) protected the procedure of infrastructure (which includes compute, storage space, networking, databases, and safety) in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Area. AWS was the initial global cloud company (CSP) to acquire K-ISMS certification (the prior edition of K-ISMS-P) back 2017. Now AWS may be the first worldwide CSP to attain compliance with the K-ISMS part of the brand new K-ISMS-P standard.

Sponsored by KISA plus associated with the Korean Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), K-ISMS-P acts since a standard for analyzing whether enterprises and organizations function and manage their info security management systems regularly and securely, in a way that they protect their information property thoroughly. The new K-ISMS-P regular combined the K-ISMS and K-PIMS (PRIVATE INFORMATION Management System) specifications with updated control products. Accordingly, the brand new K-ISMS accreditation and K-ISMS-P certification (private information-focused) are introduced beneath the updated standard.

In this year’s audit, 110 services running in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region are included. The recently launched Availability Zone within 2020 is put into the certification scope furthermore.

This certification helps enterprises and organizations across South Korea, of industry regardless, meet KISA compliance requirements better. Achieving this qualification demonstrates the proactive method AWS has taken to meet up compliance established by the Southern Korean government also to deliver protected AWS services to clients. Furthermore, we’ve launched Quick Start and Operational GUIDELINES (conformance pack) pages to supply clients with a compliance framework they can utilize because of their K-ISMS-P compliance requirements. Enterprises and organizations may use these toolkits and AWS accreditation to reduce your time and effort and cost to getting their very own K-ISMS-P certification. It is possible to download the AWS K-ISMS certification beneath the K-ISMS-P regular from AWS Artifact. For more information concerning the AWS K-ISMS qualification, start to see the AWS K-ISMS page. When you have any relevant queries, don’t hesitate to get hold of your AWS Account Supervisor.

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