ISO standards for protection against crime offer essential guidelines to safeguard individuals, organizations, and communities. Covering security management, physical security, and technology-driven solutions, these standards enhance crime detection, prevention, and response. By promoting consistent practices and innovative approaches, they help create safer environments and reduce criminal risks globally.

Insights

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Interview

By Elizabeth Gasiorowski-Denis on

Combatting corruption with ISO standards

9 December is International Anti-Corruption Day, an opportunity to raise awareness of the ISO standards that help shape a fairer and more just world.

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By Clare Naden on

Building better communities

International Standard for crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) just published.

Sample standards

Management system for private security operations — Requirements with guidance for use

Security and resilience — Protective security — Guidelines for an enterprise protective security architecture and framework

Information technology — Open Trusted Technology ProviderTM Standard (O-TTPS)
Part 1: Requirements and recommendations for mitigating maliciously tainted and counterfeit products

Security and resilience — Protective security — Guidelines for the development of a security plan for an organization

Security and resilience — Protective security — Guidelines for crime prevention through environmental design

Minimizing the risk of human DNA contamination in products used to collect, store and analyze biological material for forensic purposes — Requirements