Nine Steps to Success: An ISO 27001 Implementation Overview

Chapter 10. Successful Certification

While your selection of certification body should have no impact on your success in achieving certification, there are a couple of issues you should consider in making your selection – which isn’t necessary until you have already made considerable progress toward readiness for certification. You will of course want to ensure that there is a cultural fit between yourself and your supplier of certification services, and that pricing and so on is acceptable.

There are two other key issues that do need to be taken into account when making this selection: the first is relevant to organizations that already have one or more externally certified management systems in place; and the second applies specifically to organizations ...