ISO 27001:2005 certification

As a certified ISO 27001:2005 company, Gael demonstrates an ability to efficiently handle confidential customer data through robustly managed processes. By achieving certification, it has allowed us to strengthen the levels of trust between ourselves and our customers, improving our ability to securely manage their data and, at the same time, providing assurances that we are following ISO 27001 information security best practice.

ISO 27001:2005 certification ensures that the company’s working practices remain that of a global market leader in compliance management software, and that a commitment to information security exists at all levels throughout the organisation. By being compliant with the standard, it is beneficial to both Gael and our vast customer base and increases our suitability within sectors – such as healthcare and government for example - where information security is of vast importance.

Due to the nature of our business, we store, access and handle large amounts of internal and customer data on a daily basis. It was for this reason that we decided to undergo our ISO 27001 audit, successfully achieving certification through the use of our very own Q-Pulse compliance management solution. Through Q-Pulse, we implemented an effective Information Security Management System (ISMS) enabling us to successfully achieve ISO 27001:2005 accreditation.

Using Q-Pulse as the compliance management solution framework, we aligned our processes to achieve the standard. The solution was instrumental in gaining accreditation, allowing us to easily show auditors that all of our processes were properly controlled and easily managed, with each module playing a significant part in both the implementation and roll out of our ISMS.

Mark Gahagan, Gael’s Support and Services manager, said: “Due to the nature of our business, we need to store and have access to large amounts of both our own and our customers’ data. As a business we therefore felt that it was imperative that we put our customers’ minds at ease by becoming an ISO27001:2005 certified supplier.

“Our customers want to know that, when dealing with us, their information is secure and managed appropriately. By being ISO27001:2005 certified we can easily show we are compliant with the latest standard.

“Achieving ISO27001:2005 certification shows that we’re in complete control of our processes and, more importantly, our client data is in safe hands.”

ISO 27001:2005 is part of the growing ISO 27000 family of standards. It is an Information Security Management System (ISMS) standard published in October 2005 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). The standard was introduced to enhance legal compliance and reduce security breach costs for companies handling customer data and information.

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