CASES AND SECTORS

Who is asking you for certification?

Almost nobody starts with the standard: they start with a client who qualifies suppliers, a tender or a market that demands traceability. Here are those situations, with the standard that covers them.

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WHERE THE REQUEST COMES FROM

Four common situations.

The request comes through one of these four doors. The origin guides; the scope decides.

A customer approving suppliersProcurement requires a certified management system as a condition to join the supplier list.

A tender or bidThe requirement is written into the terms and a valid, verifiable certificate must be presented.

A regulator or destination marketThe activity or destination country requires documented evidence of controlling a risk.

An own decisionThe organization organizes its operations and needs the improvement to be verifiable by a third party.

What the certificate covers is put in writing in the proposal

THE SUPPLY CHAINS

Each sector asks for something different.

Eight chains with published situations. Choose one to see its cases, what its market asks for and the standards that respond.

**Technology and software**SaaS, fintech, cloud and digital service companies that need to demonstrate security and governance maturity.

WHEN THE REQUEST COMES UP

01A software vendor demonstrates its information security system to an enterprise customer
02A SaaS company prepares evidence for a tender

WHAT THIS MARKET ASKS FOR

Information security requirements in enterprise procurement
Evidence of service continuity in critical contracts

STANDARDS THAT ANSWER

ISO/IEC 27001Information security ISO/IEC 20000-1IT service management ISO 9001Quality management

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Typical situations from the sector catalogue · not clients, references or published results

BEFORE SIGNING

The sector guides; the scope decides.

No standard is mandatory in itself for a sector, and acceptance conditions are set by whoever requires the certificate. What the certificate covers (standard, activities, sites and validity) is put in writing in the proposal.

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NEXT STEP

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The request and who requires it are enough to start: the reply comes in writing, with standard, scope and timeline.

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