BWI: Bharti Airtel is India's Largest ISO 27001:2005 Certified Organisation

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Source: Bharti Airtel Limited
Thursday, February 19, 2009 03:17 PM IST (09:47 AM GMT)
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Release no: 19292
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Bharti Airtel is India's Largest ISO 27001:2005 Certified Organisation


New Delhi, Delhi, India, Thursday, February 19, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Bharti Airtel, Asia's leading integrated telecom services provider announced that it is now a fully ISO 27001:2005 Certified Organization. The ISO 27001:2005 certification from BSI: British Standards Institute ensures a high quality information security environment in Airtel and is one of the most stringent information security standards in the world. With this achievement, Bharti Airtel has successfully institutionalized a strong security foundation based on a robust Information Security Management System that is process oriented, person-independent and self-sustaining.

With a total of 29 certificates awarded under the ISO 27001:2005 Certification Program, Airtel has the unique distinction of being awarded the largest number of certificates to any company in India across sectors and is amongst one of the largest in the world. The ISO 27001:2005 certification program encompassed all strategic business units - Mobile Services, Enterprise Services and Telemedia Services, covering around 300 locations. The scope included all central and zonal office locations, data centers, network zones, landing stations, switch locations and Airtel Center. In terms of personnel, the scope included all employees of Bharti Airtel.

"The completion of the program is a significant milestone in the journey towards our 2010 vision of being the most admired brand in India. With around 40,000 information assets under security management, it is a momentous achievement by the team at Airtel to have made this certification program a huge success" said, Dr Jai Menon, Director Technology & Customer Service, Airtel. He added, "This certification will help build trust and confidence amongst our customers and further enhance the confidence of our employees in operational processes."

The journey to be a ISO 27001:2005 compliant organizations began with the BISP (Bharti Information Security Policy) being launched in 2003, followed by a great deal of technology rollout through outsourcing beginning 2004, and a systemized approach for certification starting 2005 with the first certification being awarded in 2006. Airtel achieved complete enterprise-wide certification in February, 2009.

ISO develops and publishes standards that establish best practices across a variety of industries. The ISO 27001:2005 certification is an endorsement of Bharti Airtel commitment to deliver managed and monitored security solutions that are benchmarked to the highest international standards.

About Bharti Airtel Limited

Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is Asia's leading integrated telecom services provider with operations in India and Sri Lanka with an aggregate of over 91 million customers as of end of January 2009, consisting of 88.38 million mobile customers. Bharti Airtel Limited has been voted as India's most innovative company, in a survey conducted by The Wall Street Journal.

Bharti Airtel is structured into three strategic business units - Mobile services, Telemedia services and Enterprise services. The mobile business offers services in India and Sri Lanka. The Telemedia business provides broadband and telephone services in 95 cities, DTH services and has recently forayed into the IPTV services. The Enterprise business provides end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national and international long distance services to carriers. All these services are provided under the Airtel brand. Airtel's high-speed optic fibre network currently spans over 90,205 kms covering all the major cities in the country. The company has two international landing stations in Chennai that connects two submarine cable systems - i2i to Singapore and SEA-ME-WE-4 to Europe. For more information, visit www.bhartiairtel.in.


CONTACT DETAILS
Abhinandan Saikia, Bharti Airtel Limited, +91 9871828900, abhinandan.saikia@bharti.in
Saurabh Gupta, Comma Consulting, +91 (11) 46003209, +91 9818075578, saurabh@comma.in

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