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The professionals at Lazarus Alliance are completely committed to you and your business’ ISO 27000 certification audit (27001, 27017, 27018, and 27701) and ISO 9000 certification audit (9001 and 90003) and others. Regardless of whether you represent the private sector or the public sector, we stand ready to partner with your organizations. Our competition may want to keep you and your employees in the dark where security, risk, privacy and governance are concerned, hoping to conceal their methodology and expertise. We don’t prescribe to that philosophy. We believe the best approach is transparent and built on a partnership developed on trust and credibility, creating sustainability within your organization.
ISO/IEC 27001 specifies the requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually improving an information security management system within the context of the organization. It also includes requirements for the assessment and treatment of information security risks tailored to the needs of the organization. The requirements set out in ISO/IEC 27001 are generic and are intended to be applicable to all organizations, regardless of type, size or nature.
Comprehensive ISO/IEC Pre-Assessment and Certification Audit Services
Once a company has made the decision to enlist a third party to provide a service, they want assurances that those services will be provided timely, accurately, and securely. A ISO 27000 certification audit shows your commitment to maintaining a sound control environment that protects your client’s data and confidential information.
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Lazarus Alliance’s ISO can provide an early stage gap analysis to determine what pieces of your ISMS are in place or what pieces are missing before you move forward to an informal pre-assessment or to the formal certification audit. The gap analysis is ideal for organizations who are in the process of finalizing their ISMS.
Lazarus Alliance’s ISO can provide a review of your ISMS and its operation essentially as a preview for the future audit. As part of this work, Lazarus Alliance will do a document review and interview employees and other key constituents. The pre-assessment’s objective is to seek the degree of conformance of your system to the ISO standard and provide a readiness level for the actual certification audit.
What to Expect
Through the successful completion of hundreds of audits around the world for organizations of all sizes, Lazarus Alliance has developed an efficient methodology and proprietary assessment protocols to evaluate the controls in place at your organization.
Differentiate yourself from your competitors by providing independent verification that your information security management system has met the requirements of this globally-recognized information security standard.
Certificates issued are valid for a three-year term, during which time observation audits and certification maintenance is periodically performed. Lazarus Alliance assessors conduct brief onsite reviews to ascertain if any material changes have been made to the ISMS as well as perform limited testing.
Lazarus Alliance’s ISO 27000 Audit (27001, 27017, 27018, and 27701) process initially takes just a few weeks from start to completion to baseline your organization depending on your team’s availability. The actual time to completion is typically well over six months following the conclusion of the performance period. We are cognizant that our clients have full time, everyday obligations in addition to dealing with auditors, so we are flexible to your needs and work around your schedule to provide a quality audit and report in the time frame you desire.
A significant differentiator you will immediately appreciate is our Proactive Cyber Security™ ISO 27000 Audit (27001, 27017, 27018, and 27701) methodology which take a continuous audit approach rather than the end of reporting period Audit Anarchy approach by other firms. We will also utilize the Continuum GRC technology to set you up for success. Continuum GRC is a full-featured and highly collaborative assessment and reporting tool provided by Lazarus Alliance.
You will enjoy a reduction of expense on additional compliance efforts your organization may undertake. Common processes, procedures and controls implemented as part of ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, and 27701 conformance that would be leveraged for other compliance efforts such as SSAE 16 (SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3), PCI DSS, HIPAA, and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).
Lazarus Alliance creates sustainable ISO 27000 certification partnerships with our clients. We have a proven methodology and project plan that helps our clients achieve compliance on budget and on schedule. You will come to appreciate our Service, Integrity and Reliability which will be apparent to you from the very first call.
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Lazarus Alliance maintains a public register for all certificates issued by the certifying body. The purpose of this registry is to enable third parties, who are in receipt of a certificate, to validate the legitimacy and currency of the document without having to contact a Lazarus Alliance representative.