#012: All about ISO certification

Why all the fuss about ISO certification? ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO whatever, … Why are companies so proud of it? And why don’t other companies do it? Let’s take a look at why we wouldn’t do it.

Level27 is ISO 27001 (information security) and ISO 9001 (quality) certified. In this article, we share our personal experiences during our journey.

A few years ago, we wrote a blog about our very first ISO audit and all the steps an organisation needs to take to become certified. But what about now, four years later? Once audited, completely done? Not quite!

The "International Organization for Standardization" is an organization that sets norms or standards. What is a standard then? A standard is in fact nothing more or less than an agreement on how to do or build something. Every company has internal standards, for example about how the hamburgers look and taste in all McDonald's. Or how wide the body seams of all Audis in the world may be.