Interoute has announced the ISO 27001 certification of its Berlin Data Centre Operations. This is the eighth of Interoute’s European Data Centres to attain the internationally recognised information security management best practice standard for security and risk management and demonstrates Interoute’s continued commitment to providing secure ICT hosting solutions.

Security management is vital for organisations that want to achieve significant cost savings while assuring the security and quality of their outsourced ICT business technologies. Interoute’s strategic focus on ISO 27001 and ITIL service management best practices provides the assurance of security and quality, empowering enterprises to meet the challenges for their business technology within Interoute’s Data Centres.

Joe Stevens, chief security & risk officer at Interoute said, “Our long standing commitment to ISO 27001 and ITIL service management is demonstrated by the scope of our ISO 27001 certification, which encompasses our data centre operations throughout Europe. Interoute’s enterprise security management system means organisations’ critical data and ICT infrastructure are protected with best practice security and risk controls.”

Interoute offers a full portfolio of managed hosting and networked cloud solutions to enterprises, as well as connectivity and communications products and services. Its pan-European network provides dedicated capacity and protected transmission products, including MPLS VPN, DDoS protection, firewalls, Intrusion Prevention Services, as well as secure managed hosting solutions and private clouds. Interoute has adopted and integrated the ISO 27001 and ITIL service management process controls across its entire product portfolio and operations processes in order to maintain the security and quality objectives for its customers.