ISO Consultation

A multinational financial institute with head office in Hong Kong, providing professional financial services worldwide
 

Size
200+ Employees

Service
ISO 27001 Certification Consultation Services

Challenge
Set up information security management system in a MNC with over 200 employees distributed worldwide and leading client’s management to participate in the improvement cycle.

As a global financial institute, our client globally runs several real-time trading systems at any one time. Our mission is to set up our client’s security management framework and information security level, base on ISO27001 standard to reduce information security risks. At the same time, to provide our technical recommendations for our client and lead them to grant the ISO27001 certification and more importantly, an continual improvement model for their information security. 

Solution
Establish ISMS manual, policies, procedures and guidelines for ISO27001 security framework and system structure. Provide technical recommendations for improvement and corrective action plan.

Through interviews with our client’s management team, our audit team designs a set of manuals as the information system management system.

Onsite checking is also performed for the implementations part of the audit, aiming not only at to prepare our client environment technically, but also providing solid experience for our clients in facing certification body auditors upon the real trail of certification.
 
Result
Our client has successfully passed all stages of the ISO 27001 certification on a first time trial.

Deliverables:
 •    Information Security Management System design, setup, implementation and manual.
 •    Policies, procedures and guidelines relating to ISO27001 standard.
 •    Internal audit and vulnerabilities assessment.
 •    Technical recommendations for system and framework improvement.
 •    Practical experiences in facing ISO auditors during the qualification.

Follow-up
With ISO27001, the aim is always continual improvement. After the certification assessment, a list of suggestions is made by the certification body. Practical advises are given to our client and thereafter our team continue to work with our client to monitor the progress of each suggestion and ensure they are completed prior the next audit.

Benefit
With the implementation of ISMS, our client has successfully started an improvement cycle on their information security. With our practical advises on technical implementations and our knowledge in industrial standards, our client were able to achieve a high standard of information security within their field. With our help on the certification of ISO27001, our client’s business grew with confidence.

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量子計算技術與金融業

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