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Unique certification
In addition to its quality certificate Swedish-based Bofors Defence, owned by American United Defence, has recently been certified for its information security. Being able to protect a company’s information assets is vital in today’s society. Organizations are often threatened in several ways, and because of the dependence on information systems organizations are vulnerable. Bofors Defence has understood the importance of an information security certificate. – It is vital both for us and for our customers. Since we also deal with many international contacts, a world-wide certificate of this kind is essential, said Anders Jonsson, Director of Information Technology at Bofors Defence. The information security certification process has taken two years, which is a relatively short period of time. – We had a good foundation to start from, since Bofors Defence already had several information security rules. The certification process was mainly a matter of educating the employees, making sure that they are aware of the routines and follow them, said Anders Jonsson. In the certification process a large number of internal revisions have been made and Bofors Defence have undertaken risk analyses of the company’s document flows, information technology infrastructure and of the internal and external staff. Also an overall risk analysis has been made of the information that the management find most important. The certificate is termed SS 62 77 99-2 and is the Swedish version of the British BS 7799-2:2002. Det Norske Veritas executed the certification and Bofors Defence has decided to unite the SS 62 77 99-2 certificates with its ISO 9000:2000 quality certificate. – Bofors Defence has been very ambitious in there efforts to qualify for the information security certificate, said Jan Ekberg at Det Norske Veritas. Forward-Looking Statements: Information in this release may involve guidance, expectations, beliefs, plans, intentions or strategies regarding the future. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. All forward-looking statements included in this release are based upon information available to United Defense Industries, Inc., as of the date of the release, and we assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. The statements in this release are not guarantees of future performance and actual results could differ materially from our current expectations. Numerous factors could cause or contribute to such differences. |
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