Security Consulting & Compliance
ISO 27001 Audit & Certification
ISMS design, implementation, internal audit and certification support end to end.
Every engagement includes manual validation, a two audience report and free re-testing.
Get a scoped quote+91 96682 00222What this actually is
ISO 27001 is not really a security certificate, it is a management system certificate. The auditor cares less about which firewall you bought and more about whether you can show that risks are identified, decisions are recorded, controls are operating and somebody reviews all of it.
That is why implementations fail. A company buys tooling, writes forty policies nobody reads, and then cannot produce the evidence that any of it ran. We build the system so the evidence is a by-product of doing the work, not a scramble the week before the audit.
We take you from wherever you are now through to certification, and then keep the evidence current so the surveillance audit is uneventful.
What we go after
- Scope definition and statement of applicability
- Risk assessment and treatment methodology
- Annex A control design across all 93 controls
- Policy and procedure set, written to be used
- Asset, supplier and access management processes
- Internal audit programme and management review
- Evidence collection and audit readiness
How we run it
- 01
Gap assessment
We measure you against the standard as it is actually audited, not as it reads on paper.
- 02
Remediation plan
Every gap gets an owner, an effort estimate and a date. You decide what lands this quarter.
- 03
Implement and evidence
We write the policy, build the control and collect the artefact that proves it is working.
- 04
Internal audit
A dry run under audit conditions, so nothing in the real one is a surprise.
- 05
Certify and maintain
We sit on your side of the table for the audit, then keep the evidence current between cycles.
What you receive
- Gap assessment against the standard as audited
- Complete ISMS documentation set
- Risk register and treatment plan
- Statement of applicability
- Internal audit report and management review pack
- Certification support through stage 1 and stage 2
Who needs this
Technology companies whose enterprise customers demand it, organisations bidding for regulated work, and anyone who wants one framework that most other requirements can map onto.
How long it takes
Three to six months to certification for most organisations, faster if you already have some of the management system in place.
Standards this satisfies
- ISO/IEC 27001
- ISO/IEC 27002
- ISO 27017
- ISO 27018
Why it matters
Almost nobody starts a certification because they want one. It starts because a customer will not sign without it, a regulator has asked, or a deal is sitting still while procurement waits for evidence. The commercial driver is real and it is worth being honest that it, rather than security, is usually what pays for the programme.
The security benefit is real too, but it comes from a specific place: the discipline of having to evidence that a control operated over a period, rather than that it was configured once. That is the part that changes behaviour, and it is also the part organisations consistently underestimate.
Choose how you want this delivered
Most of the price difference between quotes comes down to this one choice, and it is rarely explained. Pick one to see what it covers, what it suits and what it costs you.
Gap assessment, then we work alongside your team through remediation, internal audit and the certification audit itself. Your people do the work and own the outcome, which is what makes the management system survive after we leave. This is what most organisations should choose.
Choose this when
- You have a team who can absorb the work alongside their day job
- You want the capability to remain in-house afterwards
- First certification where documentation is the main gap
Effort and cost
Moderate. The calendar is longer than a managed programme because the work competes with everyone's existing responsibilities.
Scope it yourself, before you call anyone
Answer a few questions and you get an indicative number, the working behind it and what your answers tell us. It runs in your browser, so nothing you type reaches us.
Is the ISMS scope defined and written down?
What we look for, and keep finding
These are the classes of problem this work exists to surface. Not every engagement finds all of them, but these are the ones that turn up often enough to be worth naming.
Controls that exist on paper only
The policy says quarterly access reviews. The evidence shows one, eighteen months ago, and it was not completed. This is the single most common audit finding across every framework.
Scope drawn too narrowly
A certificate covering a subset of the business that customers assume covers all of it. Auditors check the boundary; buyers rarely do. Getting scope right is the most consequential early decision.
Evidence that cannot be reproduced
A screenshot proves a control was configured on the day someone took it. A framework wants proof it operated throughout the period. Those are very different, and the gap only appears at the audit.
Exceptions with no expiry
Risk accepted once, recorded, and never revisited. Over a few years these accumulate into an undocumented second control framework nobody is managing.
Third parties outside the boundary
Processing carried out by a supplier who was assessed at onboarding and never since, while your obligation for their handling of your data continues regardless.
Who runs your engagement
A lead assessor who has sat on the other side of the table
Compliance work is led by an assessor who has taken organisations through certification, not by a consultant reading the standard for the first time with you. They know which findings a certification body will actually raise, which is a different list from what the standard technically says.
Questions we get asked
Do you also act as the certification body?
No, and no consultant legitimately can. We implement and prepare you; an accredited certification body runs the certification audit. We sit with you through it.
How much of our time will this take?
Less than most people fear, but it is not zero. Expect a few hours a week from a nominated owner, and short workshops with each function. We write the documentation.
Will ISO 27001 satisfy our customer's security questionnaire?
Usually most of it. We also keep a maintained answer set in GRC 360 so the next questionnaire takes hours rather than weeks.
Often scoped alongside
- CERT-In Cyber Security AuditCERT-In empanelled audit and certification for government and regulated entities.Read more
- ISO 27017 Compliance AuditCloud-specific security controls for providers and customers.Read more
- ISO 27018 Compliance AuditProtection of personally identifiable information in public clouds.Read more
- ISO 42001 AI Management AuditGovernance for AI systems, the framework regulators are converging on.Read more
Ready to scope your iso 27001 audit & certification?
Thirty minutes with a senior engineer, and you leave with a written scope and indicative effort.