Clekt achieves first-time ISO 27001 certification with the ISMS.online platform

Modern organisations never stop generating data. Clekt pulls that endless flow of information apart, focusing and analysing it. Their team helps their customers design and implement their data strategies, so they can make better decisions about their supply chain, their products and services, and their own customers.

Clekt needed to create an ISMS and achieve ISO 27001 certification to enter new markets and win larger customers.

It was important to Clekt to safeguard their customers’ data and their own intellectual property by managing access to their online resources. They wanted to demonstrate their commitment to data privacy and security and ensure their people understood the importance of infosec.Clekt were managing their GDPR compliance in a spreadsheet-based system that they had created themselves. But they’d started to see the limits of that. We showed them how our platform could accelerate them to ISO 27001 certification and beyond.Claudia Hesleden, Head of Operations at Clekt, said: “When we started the ISO 27001 certification process, we wanted it to be as seamless as possible. We really wanted our solution to be cloud-based, not paper-based or running on a variety of spreadsheets.”

Clekt signed up for our standard ISMS package, which includes our Assured Results Method designed to lay out a clear, tried and tested path to first time ISO 27001 certification success.

Our Adopt, Adapt, Add content started them out with 77% of their ISMS documentation already complete.

The Clekt team added on our Virtual Coach, which provides 24/7 context-specific help and support. It is a great starter when it comes to understanding the requirements of each ISO 27001 Annex.
After a few weeks Clekt decided they could really benefit from our Supply Chain Accounts module, too.

Jess added: “The ability to track contracts and set “to dos” against each account is something that’s now become part of our everyday business processes.”

Clekt also drew on our standard suite of bespoke tools and utilities. The linking of risks, assets and controls across the ISMS.online platform made it really easy to understand which assets they were trying to protect, the risks of not protecting each asset and the control they had put in place. They were able to highly customise it all to suit their approach and track it in one central place. It provided vital evidence for their audit.

The team came to us whenever they needed a hand. Like all our customers, they could live chat to us from within our platform.

Our platform helped them achieve ISO 27001 certification on their first attempt, just over six months after signing up with us.

Now they’re looking at how they’ll build on that achievement.Clekt are looking to manage and evolve their ISMS over the next three years, ready for their re-certification. They’re also looking at how they can use our platform to help and support their own customers.If you would like to talk to us about how we can help with your compliance objectives then book a demo today.