National Information Security Policy and Guidelines | Ministry of Home Affairs 9.2. Introduction to globally accepted Information security management standards 9.2.1. There are several standards accepted globally which help an organization conduct risk assessment , gap analysis and govern security implementation at different levels such as network access points, user authentication, applications etc. across the people, process, and technology (PPT) layers. There are several information security management standards which are adopted by organizations worldwide. The ministries, departments, agencies and their subordinate organizations may use such globally accepted standards to design, implement and govern information security within their organization and mandate all partner organizations and third parties to implement similar practices (For more details on globally accepted information security management standards refer to Annexure 10) NISPG - Version 5.0 Restricted Page 29