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Date : 21/Oct/2005
Larsen & Toubro – First Company in the World certified for ISO/IEC 27001

Larsen & Toubro Limited (E&C Division) along with its Joint Ventures such as L&T Chiyoda and L&T Sargent & Lundy and e Engineering solutions Business Centre is the FIRST COMPANY IN THE WORLD CERTIFIED TO ISO/IEC 27001:2005 – IT Security Management System.
The certification took place on the day one of the release of the standard from Bureau Veritas Quality International, UK and the list of eminent personalities who have complimented this achievement includes Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Hon’ble President of India.
Responding to IT Security – International User Group based in UK and for ISO in Geneva Mr.K. Venkataramanan, President (Operations) & Member of the Board, L&T said: “Our EPC business environment, dealing with large LSTK projects, involves a variety of complex factors such as global level dependencies, co-ordination between players, and location issues, besides technology, competence and business risks. As such, it is only logical for us to leverage the information technology potential to meet our business objectives and grow a breed of satisfied customers.
With the increasing use of IT in our day-to-day business operations, protecting the business critical information and information processing assets from all possible threats and vulnerabilities is more important now than ever before, considering the business dependency. IT security concerns have been uppermost in our mind, prompting us to collaborate with both governmental and nongovernmental agencies and professional forums such as ISO/IEC (International Organisation for Standardisation / International Electro-technical Commission), BSI (British Standards Institution), ISMS IUG (IT Security – International User Group) etc., besides ensuring compliance to IT security best practices.
We are proud to be part of the global developmental efforts on IT security management and to pioneer the trends.”
“The ISMS in accordance with ISO/IEC 27001 ensures formal structured business risks assessment and guides application of security controls and technology. It assures the top management of the consistency of actions and ability to respond to challenging business situations in the event of any disaster”, he added.

Date : 19/08/2005
A new Design Center has been inaugurated on 16th July, 2005, in Faridabad by Mr. P K Mukherji, the Chief Executive of L&T-Sargent & Lundy Limited. This is a step towards the expansion plan of L&T-S&L over the next 5 years. The Faridabad office is now operational.

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