Easy and Affordable ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 Certification
Why Bother with ISO 9001 and 27001 Certification?
More and more customers demand their suppliers to be ISO 9001 and/or ISO 27001 certified. While that might be easy for large corporations, it isn’t so for startups and mid-sized companies.
Nevertheless, as a startup serving enterprise customers, there is no way you can choose. If you want those contracts to materialize, you will have to find a way to comply with all the clauses suggested by the legal department of your new customer.
To illustrate this, here are two examples of customer contract clauses we had to agree to before we were ISO 27001 certified:
“SUPPLIER should be certified against either the SOC 2 Type II framework, ISO 27001, (or an equivalent level of certification as agreed with CUSTOMER), and shall provide evidence of its certification in due time. The certification will be finalized by the end of 2021.”
“SUPPLIER must also provide proof of currently valid, internationally recognized certification in accordance with the ISO/IEC 27001 standard. SUPPLIER is currently undergoing ISO 27001 certification, expected date of stage 2 audit May 2021. In case the stage 2 audit should fail, the…
