Whether you are a start-up with seed capital or are an established technology business, due diligence processes from investors and clients will require you to demonstrate your security status. You may have to prove that you have a systematic approach towards managing sensitive information and ensuring Data Security. Having an established, internationally recognised, ISO 27001 certified Information Security Management System, will help you do just that!
- Instil trust in your existing or potential client base by easily demonstrating your information security status
- Secure your information and improve your risk management
- Win and tender for more lucrative deals
- Elevate your brand
These are just a few advantages of having an ISO 27001 certification in place.
In this article, we provide you with an overview of why partnering with an established consultancy to help you through your ISO 27001 implementation can add value to your business and take the associated pain away.
The benefits of working with a consultancy
Implementing ISO 27001 can be taxing for the unexperienced; regulations, processes, procedures, people, co-ordinating all requirements of the standard (in fact trying to even understand the standard) to form one overarching management system that works for your business, is no small feat.
Partnering with an ISO 27001 consultancy means you will have support from initial kick off right the way through to full implementation and certification. For what can be a complicated process, a consultant will provide advice along the way from a team that has been there and done that, many times.
What to look for when you work with a consultancy
- Before working with a consultancy do your own due diligence.
- Find out about the consultancy’s proven experience, make sure they will add value and not just tick boxes, see if you can speak to their clients. To date, Inavate has experience of working on over 200 implementations with a 100% record of achieving certification first time and within budget.
- Each firm is unique. Therefore, a tailored approach aligned with your business strategy and requirements is essential to ensure that you get real value out of your implementation. At Inavate, our bespoke methodology ensures that you will have an information security management system that is wrapped around your business and not vice versa, providing assurance to your management team and reassuring your clients that their information is secure.
Avoid significant fines
It’s imperative for software and tech companies not to fall foul of governing bodies. For example, the Information Commissioners Office (ICO), the UK’s independent authority which protects all of our data and information rights, will impose significant penalties to those companies that don’t take adequate security measures to prevent or contain a serious personal data breach.
Working with a consultancy to implement the numerous requirements that you must meet within ISO27001 ensures that you not only manage the security of your information assets, it can also help you avoid significant fines because of poor advice or ignoring the rules.
Inavate’s 5 step plan towards ISO 27001 certification success
We offer a 5-step plan which has been developed in line with our experience. Each phase in the plan serves a specific purpose.
- Define: Understanding your business, its people, systems, and categorising your information as well as defining objectives for your system
- Design: Designing your management system based on what we discover in the Define phase
- Deploy: Implementing what we have designed, this is the ‘doing’ phase and dependant on your business buy in and size, the lengthiest part of the implementation
- Demonstrate: Proving that the system works and implementing any remedial action that may come from the deploy phase as well as engaging the wider business
- Develop: Monitoring, measuring, analysing and evaluating the system to tease out any improvements
Work with Inavate, ISO 27001 consultants
We have taken many software and technology companies at all stages of their journey to full ISO 27001 accreditation while adding operational, brand and financial value to the business. Get in touch with us to discuss your requirements and we’ll help you to secure your business and instil trust in your stakeholders.
Inavate Consulting is a specialist ISO 27001 and cyber security practice. With over 200 independently audited ISO 27001 implementations we are trusted to deliver practical and commercially advantageous cyber security strategies across all business sectors. Our specific area of expertise is working with Hi-Tech start-ups and regulated markets including iGaming, Financial and Technology across the UK, European and US market.
