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To do our bit in these difficult Covid-19 times, DQS Belgium offers a free teleworking quickscan. Via a telco, one of our ISO 27001 auditors will examine your current telework policy together with you. This will give you an insight into potential risks that hackers or people with bad intentions can exploit. We want to keep not only your employees but also your company virus-free and healthy!

As of today you can also find us at the Corda Campus in Hasselt, in the INcubator in building A.

Promut manages the health insurance policies that employers take out for their staff. The team worked hard to streamline processes and procedures, with the ISO certificate as the icing on the cake.

After the success of our first Privacy after Work in October 2019, we presented part two on 6 February 2020! The concept and the approach remained identical, only the location was different.

The first theme of this second session was data breaches. How should you organize yourself? Which are the most important steps? How can you objectively determine the impact of a data breach? How do you manage communication? Is it possible to prepare for it? What is the role of the DPO, the CISO, etc.? Jan Leonard, DPO at Orange, guided us through this.
In addition, together with Peter Geelen, senior information security management adviser at the CCB and also a consultant and auditor, we took a look at a "new" ISO standard: ISO 27701. What does it actually mean? How can we apply this within the context of information security?

Byteflies is a med tech company that provides B2B-services to enable lean development of wearable health applications. With a proprietary platform to set up wearable health solutions instantly, Byteflies works with pharmaceutical companies that are embracing clinical trial innovation and the value-based healthcare model; researchers looking for cutting edge technology to monitor patients; and tech companies wanting to quickly push new wearable technology to the market.

In January, our colleagues introduced us to the medical device standards, such as ISO 13485 and ISO 15378. MDSAP, MDD and MDR were also extensively discussed.

After a successful audit, the Netalux team received their ISO 9001: 2015 certificate.

Netalux developed a new generation of laser cleaning machines that are built to be used in the most challenging environments.

Laser cleaning has many applications in the petrochemical, pharmaceutical, energy and aviation sectors, among others. The advantages of laser cleaning are also countless: cleaning without chemicals, without extra contaminants. No secondary waste or air displacement.

Bringme's virtual reception and digital concierge automate everything that enters and exits a building: visitors, couriers, packages, pick-ups ... all according to the highest security and privacy standards. Today they received their well-deserved ISO 27001 certificate, the standard for information security. Congratulations to the whole team for the hard work and the great result!

A common structure for management systems. Since the publication of ISO 50001:2018, all of the major ISO standards are now based on the High-Level-Structure, HLS for short. First initiated in 2012, HLS has become the common structure of all revised or newly issued ISO management system standards, with many positive effects especially for integrated systems.

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The new European privacy regulation or GDPR has been in force since May 2018. In the meantime, after the early adapters, many Belgian companies have adjusted their data processes. Now what? How does this continue? Who will perform checks on this? Back to business as usual or will there be a follow-up? How have other companies approached this?

Many questions which we discussed with David Stevens, the new Managing Director of the Data Protection Authority (GBA) and Erwin Maussen, DPO and Risk Manager VRT, at the Corda Campus in Hasselt.

Makso Assemblage uit Veenendaal, Nederland, hernieuwt zijn ISO 9001-certificaat.

Like every year, we organized an international exchange of experience and training for our auditors, so that they can be fully updated and calibrated to give the best of themselves to all our customers.
Our auditors always ensure that your management system is brought to a higher level.
For those who still have doubts, click further for some advantages of a certified management system!