ISO/IEC 27701:2025: Privacy Information Management (PIMS) (Udemy.com)

ISO/IEC 27701 is the international standard for privacy information management systems (PIMS) — and with its 2025 revision, it became a standalone standard, no longer just a privacy extension to ISO/IEC 27001. It defines the management system requirements and privacy controls for any organization that processes personally identifiable information (PII), whether as a PII controller, a PII processor, or both — regardless of size, sector or jurisdiction.

Data privacy is not just an IT issue; it is a business imperative. According to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach report, the average breach now costs over $4.4 million, and privacy regulation keeps tightening worldwide — the EU's GDPR, California's CCPA/CPRA, and dozens of national laws. ISO/IEC 27701 is the globally recognized framework that helps organizations structure their response to all of them.

Course structure

The course takes you from fundamentals to implementation in five sections:

• Introduction to privacy — core concepts and definitions, privacy principles, and the position of ISO/IEC 27701 within the ISO/IEC 27000 series

• Management system requirements — a deep dive into the PIMS requirements: context of the organization, leadership, planning, support, operation, performance evaluation and continual improvement

• Controls for PII controllers — a detailed breakdown of the 31 privacy controls for organizations that determine the purposes and means of processing: obligations toward PII principals, privacy by design and by default, conditions for collecting and processing personal data, and requirements for sharing and transferring PII

• Controls for PII processors — the specific controls for organizations that process personal data on behalf of, and according to the instructions of, their customers

• Information security controls — 29 controls protecting personal data, including information classification and labelling, cryptography, incident management, access rights, backups, logging, and secure development of software and systems

What you can do with this knowledge

• Launch or advance a career as a privacy consultant or Data Protection Officer (DPO)

• Participate in internal and external PIMS audits

• Extend an existing ISO/IEC 27001 information security management system (ISMS) to cover privacy — or implement a PIMS on its own, as the 2025 revision now allows

• Lead the implementation of a PIMS in your organization

• Understand precisely how ISO approaches the processing of personally identifiable information

Who this course is for

• Privacy professionals, DPOs and aspiring DPOs building standards-based expertise

• Information security professionals and ISO/IEC 27001 practitioners adding privacy to their scope

• Compliance and legal teams structuring GDPR and multi-jurisdiction privacy compliance

• Consultants and auditors working with privacy information management systems

• Organizations and professionals transitioning from the previous edition of ISO/IEC 27701

By the end of the course you will understand what a PIMS is, how its requirements and controls fit together, and how to apply ISO/IEC 27701 in practice — for your organization or your career.