Molex Japan awarded ISO 27001 certification

LISLE, FRANCE: Molex Inc., one of the world’s leading electronic connector companies, announced that Molex Japan (Yamato Technical Center, Shizuoka Plant, Kagoshima Plant, Precision Parts Plant in Kagoshima, and seven domestic sales offices) has successfully acquired the certification of ISO27001 from the Bureau Veritas, an authorized third party of ISO Certification.

The ISO 27001 standard was published in October 2005 with the objective to provide a model and independent certification for the establishment, implementation, monitoring, review, maintenance, and improvement of an organization’s formal Information Security Management System (ISMS).

“The importance of information security is ever-increasing,” according to Katsumi Hirokawa, president of Molex Japan. “Molex recognizes the importance of our customer's confidential information, as well as our own security interests, and will continue working to strengthen security standards and measures at our manufacturing locations globally.”