New Delhi, 17 March, 2020: PNB Housing Finance Limited, one of the leading housing finance companies has been awarded for registration of ISO 27001:2013 standard. The ISO certification is the international standard that provides the specification for an Information Security Management System (ISMS). The standard adapts a process based approach for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, maintaining and improving the Information Security Management System.

ISO 27001:2013 takes a risk-based approach to information security, requiring organisations to identify threats to their organisation and select appropriate controls to tackle them. PNB Housing enable frictionless business workflows while ensuring security & controls to prevent unsolicited transactions and perpetrators of fraud.
 
The company believes in integrated security strategy, a common governance set for people, process & platform, a unified technology solution for complete spectrum of business operation. Information & alerts from all the controlling unit including- perimeter security, endpoint security, network security, application security, web security, email security, physical infrastructure security & identity management converges to a central unified solution giving the cockpit view of all the security vectors. This prepares PNB Housing in effectively identifying, analysing & combating Cyber-attacks.
 
Talking about the new standards, Mr. Nitant Desai, Chief Centralised Operation and Technology Officer, PNB Housing said, “At PNB Housing, all operational activities are done in a secured manner. Safeguarding customer data is paramount for us and we take risk-based approach to information security thereby proactively identifying any threats to the customers or organisation and take appropriate controls to arrest them in the early stages itself.”