ISO 18788 specifies and provides recommendations for companies that execute security activities. Furthermore, it provides a framework for developing, implementing, running, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining, and improving a Security Operations Management System. It enables the continual development of security services while ensuring customer safety and human rights respect. This standard certifies rule and regulatory compliance, human rights respect, and the construction of professional security operations to suit the needs of customers and stakeholders. ISO 18788 provides a framework for business and risk management in the execution of security operations. It emphasises the necessity of identifying stakeholders such as employees, clients, local communities, and subcontractors.

The ISO 18788 standard specifies the principles and requirements for a security operations management system (SOMS) and helps it demonstrate its ability to constantly provide services that meet customer needs while adhering to acceptable norms and human rights requirements. ISO 18788:2015 provides a business and risk management framework for organisations conducting or contracting security operations and associated activities and functions while representing: – the manner of professional security operations to meet the needs of customers and other stakeholders, accountability to the rule of law and respect for human rights, consistency with charitable commitments to which it subscribes.

What are the ISO 18788 Standard Elements?

• The risk-based method is regarded as a critical process of the security operations management system.
• ISO 18788 assists in the planning and implementation of security operations throughout the management controls.
• Private security operations protect critical components of enterprise risk management.
• The standard sets a high level of responsibility on organisations as security service providers to classify who will be impacted by operations and how, beginning with clients, rules, and legal governance, and progressing to employees and subcontractors.
• ISO 18788 supports all business objectives and encompasses an organization’s critical security operations and supply chain.
• The senior management team maintains and drives ISO 18788.