Testing, inspection and certification specialist Kiwa and assurance and cybersecurity expert Securance have announced a strategic partnership to jointly enhance their services in the fields of risk management and cybersecurity. This collaboration combines Kiwa's extensive certification and compliance expertise with Securance's innovative risk management and cybersecurity solutions.
There are few sectors where privacy and information security have a higher priority than in healthcare, where almost all processed and recorded data is confidential. Recently, Amsterdam UMC - the merger organization of AMC and VUmc - certified with Kiwa for the ISO 27001 and NEN 7510 standards. Marcel van der Haagen, data protection officer at Amsterdam UMC, elaborates on this.
Kiwa was recently accredited by the Dutch accreditation council RvA as the first Notified Body (NoBo) for testing and assessing the cybersecurity of IoT consumer products. By independently assessing the cybersecurity of 'smart' devices such as doorbells, thermostats, tv’s and lighting, manufacturers can ensure that consumers are less likely to become victims of cybercrime.
To ensure that quality standards remain relevant and current, they are reviewed at least every five years. For that reason, the ISO 27002 was recently revised. This standard contains the practical guidelines and control measures for management systems for information security (ISMS) that are inextricably linked to the information security standard ISO 27001.
