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Broad industry coverage and deep knowledge of our clients’ businesses and the financial structures that are being developed day in and day out across these markets enable us to deliver a powerful competitive advantage for clients.

We work with client on compliance with:

  • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
  • European union agency for cybersecurity
  • Network and Information System (NIS) Directives
  • EU cybersecurity act
  • Data Protection Act UK (DPA)
  • HIPPA
  • COPPA
  • BIPA
  • California Consumer Privacy Act, 2018
  • California Privacy Rights Act, 2020
  • Washington My Health My Data Act, 2023
  • Computer Misuse Act, 1990

ISO 27001 COMPLIANCE

ISO 27001 is an international standard for information security management system(ISMS). It provides a framework for organizations to manage their information security risks and protects their sensitive data. The standard can be tailored to the size and needs of any organization, and it can be scaled up or down as needed

BENEFITS OF ISO 27001 COMPLIANCE

  • DIMINISHES SUSCEPTIBILITY TO CYBERATTACKS BY PROTECTING AGAINST
    UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, USE, AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION.
  • PROVIDES A CENTRALLY MANAGED FRAMEWORK FOR DATA PROTECTION.
  • SECURES AN ORGANIZATION’S ASSETS SUCH AS FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FROM UNAUTHORIZED USE.
  • SECURES INFORMATION IN ALL FORMS BE IT ON PAPER, CLOUD-BASED OR OTHERWISE

PURPOSE

  • TO DEVELOP AN UNDERSTANDING OF INFORMATION SECURITY RISKS
  • TO ASSESS POTENTIAL RISK MITIGATION STRATEGIES
  • TO MONITOR AND IMPROVE ISMS CONCURRENTLY
  • TO COMPLY WITH APPLICABLE LEGAL AND REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS
  • TO GAIN A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

PRINCIPLES OF ISO 27001

  • CONFIDENTIALITY: ONLY AUTHORIZED PERSONS CAN ACCESS THE INFORMATION, TO PROTECT STORED DATA AND ITS FLOW BEYOND AUTHORIZED PEOPLE.
  • INTEGRITY: DATA IS NOT TEMPERED, WHETHER IN STORE OR IN TRANSIT, AND SHALL REMAIN THE SAME AT ALL TIMES.
  • AVAILABILITY: ACCESS FOR AUTHORIZED PERSONS WHENEVER NEEDED.

CERTIFICATION ROADMAP

STEP 1

Understand the standard & evaluate your existing ISMS (Gap Analysis Checklist)

STEP 2

CREATE AND RECORD COMPONENTSOF YOUR ISMS THAT ARE MANDATORY FOR CERTIFICATION

STEP 3

CONDUCT AN INTERNAL RISK ASSESSMENT IN LIGHT OF ISO 27001 CHECKLISTS REALTED TO ASSET MANAGEMENT, SECURITY, AND RISK ASSESSMENT

STEP 4

HAVE A SITE AUDIT AS PER THE STAGE 2 AUDIT CHECKLIST, ADDRESS ALL NONCONFORMITIES BEFORE A CERTIFICATION IS GIVEN.

STEP 5

IMPLEMENT YOUR CONTROLS  UPDATING SOFTWARES, PROCEDURES, AND DATA HANDLING POLICIES

STEP 6

Conduct an internal audit

STEP 7

HAVE AN ACCREDITED ISO 27001 AUDITOR CONDUCT A TWO-STEP CERTIFICATION AUDIT, STARTING WITH A REVIEW OF YOUR DOCUMENTATION AND CONTROLS, AS PER AN ISO 27001 STAGE 1 CHECKLIST.

STEP 8

HAVE A SITE AUDIT AS PER THE STAGE 2 AUDIT CHECKLIST, ADDRESS ALL NONCONFORMITIES BEFORE A CERTIFICATION IS GIVEN

STEP 9

HAVE A PLAN FOR MAINTAINING CERTIFICATION (LASTS FOR 3 YEARS UNLESS RENEWED)

SOC 2 Certification

INTRODUCTION

SOC 2 is a security framework that specifies how
organizations should protect customer data from
unauthorized access, security incidents, and other
vunerabilities. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) developed SOC 2 around five Trust Services Criteria

TYPES

Two Types Of SOC 2 Certification

SOC 2 Type 1

Type 1 assesses the design of security processes at a specific point in time

SOC 2 Type 2

Type 2 assesses how effective those controls are over time by observing operations for six months.

Key Features:

  • Type 2 is in fact the extension of type 1 compliance as type 2 is extensive.
  • For faster Report go with Type 1
  • For greatest level of assurance go with type 2 as it is comprehensive

CHECKLIST/ROADMAP TO CERTIFICATION

  • Identify the type of SOC 2 report
  • Determine your scope/objective
  • Perform initial assessment
  • Perform gap analysis
  • Remediate control gap
  • Perform a risk assessment and Prepare for audit
  • Go through the Audit
  • Maintain and monitor compliance at regular interval

BENEFITS OF SOC2 CERTIFICATION

  • Speed up your sales cycles
  • Increase brand reputation
  • Gain a competitive advantage
  • Proactively address risk
  • SOC 2 audits help you in improving your overall security outlook
  • Assure your customers that you have all the right controls in place
  • SOC 2 compliance help you avoid data breaches
  • Help you to achieve other certifications like ISO 27001
    and HIPPA

DRAWBACKS OF NON CERTIFICATION

  • Affect your brand reputation
  • Vulnerable to data breaches
  • Create distrust to customers require SOC 2
  • Lack of security controls
  • Competitive disadvantage with relation to other organizations
  • Cause dissatisfaction among customers for data risk

CHECKLIST FOR SOC 2 CERTIFICATION

STEP 1

IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF SOC 2 REPORT
  • The first step where one has to begun the SOC 2 Certification is to know what type of report is needed.
  • Accoring to the necessity of the organziation, whether type 1 report is needed or type 2 report is needed
  • Type 1 determined controls at specific time but A type 2 is a step further towrads security controls which includes effectiveness of controls over a period of time.
  • Type 1 takes less time and Type 2 needs more time for compliance and Certification as type 2 is extensive and vigorous

STEP 2

DETERMINE YOUR SCOPE
After dertmining type of report organization should determine AICPA's attestation standard includes
  • Infrastructur
  • Data
  • Procedure
  • softaware
  • people
Also determine Trust Service Criterias (TSCs)
  • Security
  • Availability
  • Processing
  • Integrity
  • Confidentiality
  • Privacy

STEP 3

PERFORM INITIAL ASSESMENT

First step is to check the procedures controls and policies to check security postures and which controls you have still to implement to meet Trust Service rcriteria. This is clled initial assessment.

STEP 4

PERFORM GAP ANALYSIS

Compliance team examine and comapare the policies and procedures of the business with the SOC 2 best practices to identify any gaps.

STEP 5

REMEDIAL CONTROL GAP

A strategic remedian plan is set to tackle the SOC 2  in efficient way to ensure SOC 2 controls are achieved. one should need to work on following:

  • Review
  • Policies
  • Formolize
  • Procedure
  • Altration to software Any additional

STEP 6

PERFORM RISK ASSESSMENT AND PREPARE FOR AUDIT

Perform a risk assessment and it icludes potential risk to growth, gegraaphy or outside information security best practices. After risk assessment mitigation and acceptance process , business needs to prepare for audit. prepare the team to answer the questions of auditors in the audit process

STEP 7

GO THROUGH THE AUDIT

SOC 2 audit can last from 2 weeks to 1 year depending up0n number of questions and coreections from auditors. It also depends on type of report Type 1 require less time and Type 2 require more time and resources as it is extensive and a detail report.

STEP 8

MONITORING AT REGULAR INTERVAL

It is important to perform audit at regular and at annual basis to avoid any risk and for customer’s satisfaction. Usually an audit report is valid for 12 months. Companies and orgnaziations should maintain a proper monitoring system