ISO 27001:2022 Certified Consultants
ISO 27001:2022 Certified Consultants

ISO 27001 Certification Services in the Philippines

Your ISO 27001 consultant in the Philippines. End-to-end ISO/IEC 27001 certification support for organisations in the Philippines: ISO 27001 gap assessment, ISO 27001 implementation, risk treatment, ISO 27001 internal audit and ISO 27001 Stage 1 and Stage 2 audit accompaniment. Get ISO certification for cyber security with a written scope, a control owner list and a clear view of ISO 27001 certification cost, price and audit cost before work begins. We support teams in Manila, Makati, BGC, Ortigas, Cebu, Clark and Davao, and align every ISMS to the Data Privacy Act (RA 10173), NPC rules and BSP cybersecurity expectations.

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Why ISO 27001 Certification Matters in the Philippines

Most Philippine companies start ISO 27001 certification because a client, a regulator or a buyer's risk team asked for it. ISO certification for cyber security settles that question once, instead of answering a fresh data security questionnaire every quarter.

Evidence for the Data Privacy Act

RA 10173 requires organisational, physical and technical measures but does not tell you what good looks like. An ISO 27001 ISMS gives you the risk register, policies, access reviews and incident records the NPC expects to see, dated and owned rather than assembled after a complaint.

BSP-Regulated IT Risk Governance

Banks, e-money issuers, lending firms and fintechs supervised by Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas must show IT risk management, third-party oversight and incident reporting. ISO 27001 maps onto those expectations, so one ISMS answers both your examiner and your enterprise customers.

Wins Deals in IT-BPM

Philippine BPO and IT-BPM providers handle payroll, claims, KYC files and card data for overseas principals. Those principals now put ISO 27001 certification in the RFP itself. Without it you are screened out before pricing; with it, vendor onboarding drops from months to weeks.

Who Needs ISO 27001 Certification in the Philippines

From contact centre floors in Metro Manila to BSP-supervised lenders and hospital groups, these are the sectors that most often ask us for ISO 27001 certification services.

BPO / IT-BPM Banking & Financial Services (BSP-regulated) Healthcare & Pharma Government Telecom E-commerce Insurance Education

ISO 27001 Certification Services We Provide

Take the whole programme or only the piece you are missing. Each ISO 27001 certification service in the Philippines below can be bought on its own, with its own scope and its own fee.

ISO 27001 Gap Analysis & Gap Assessment

A structured ISO 27001 gap analysis, also called a gap assessment, against Clauses 4 to 10 and all 93 Annex A controls. You receive a findings sheet showing what already exists, what exists but is undocumented, and what is genuinely missing, each line with an owner, an effort estimate and a target date.

ISO 27001 Implementation & Documentation

ISO 27001 implementation (ISMS implementation) starts here: we draft the policy set, procedures, registers and records to match how your teams actually work, including NPC breach notification duties and BSP reporting lines, so the documents survive first contact with an auditor instead of sitting unread.

Risk Assessment & Treatment

Asset and process based risk assessment with a scoring method your management team can defend. The risk treatment plan ties each accepted risk to a named control, a budget line and a review date, which is exactly what the Stage 2 auditor traces.

Awareness & Role-Based Training

General awareness for all staff plus deeper sessions for IT, HR and operations leads. For contact centre environments we cover clean desk, device rules, screen capture and floor access, because those are the controls auditors sample first.

ISO 27001 Internal Audit

A full ISO 27001 internal audit run by a qualified Lead Auditor: audit plan, sampling, interviews, findings with clause references and a closure log. Clause 9.2 makes internal audit mandatory before certification, and this is the deliverable that removes surprises at Stage 2.

Statement of Applicability

Your SoA covering all 93 Annex A controls with a written justification for every inclusion and exclusion, traced back to the risk assessment. A weak SoA is one of the most common Stage 1 findings, so we build it properly the first time.

ISO 27001 Stage 1 & Stage 2 Audit Support

The ISO 27001 certification audit is an external audit by an accredited body. We help you select an accredited certification body, prepare the evidence pack, run a readiness walkthrough and sit with your team through both audit stages. Any nonconformity raised is turned into a root cause and corrective action we help you close.

ISO 27001 Surveillance Audit & Recertification

Certification runs on a three year cycle with an ISO 27001 surveillance audit every year. We keep the risk register, SoA, internal audit schedule and management review running so year two and year three do not turn into a rebuild.

ISO 27701 Privacy Extension

Add a Privacy Information Management System on top of your ISMS. Useful when you process personal data at volume and need to answer Data Privacy Act obligations and GDPR clauses from overseas clients with one integrated set of controls.

ISO 27001:2022 Annex A Controls

The 2022 revision groups controls into four themes and reduces the count from 114 to 93. Your gap analysis and your Statement of Applicability both work from this structure.

Clauses A.5 & A.6

Organizational & People Controls

37 organisational controls and 8 people controls covering governance, supplier risk and human resource security.

  • Information security policies & defined roles
  • Threat intelligence & asset inventory
  • Access control & identity management
  • Supplier security & cloud service agreements
  • Screening, employment terms & awareness
  • Remote working & incident reporting duties
  • Continuity planning for typhoon and power disruption
Clauses A.7 & A.8

Physical & Technological Controls

14 physical controls and 34 technological controls covering facilities, endpoints and the software you build or buy.

  • Security perimeters & production floor entry controls
  • Equipment protection & secure media disposal
  • Endpoint hardening & privileged access rights
  • Secure development lifecycle & code review
  • Data masking, DLP & encryption key handling
  • Network segmentation, monitoring & web filtering
  • Backup, logging & clock synchronisation evidence

The ISO 27001 Certification Process

Eight steps from first conversation to certificate. You always know which step you are on, who owns the next action and what it costs.

1

Scoping & Gap Analysis

Agree the ISMS boundary, then run the ISO 27001 gap analysis and price the work

2

Risk Assessment & Treatment

Score risks against assets and processes, then decide treat, transfer or accept

3

ISO 27001 Implementation & Documentation

Policies, procedures, registers and the Statement of Applicability drafted with your owners

4

ISMS Control Implementation

Roll out organisational, people, physical and technological controls with evidence from day one

5

Internal Audit & Review

Clause 9.2 ISO 27001 internal audit plus a documented management review

6

ISO 27001 Stage 1 Audit

Certification body reviews documentation and readiness; we close findings with you

7

ISO 27001 Stage 2 Audit

Audit of how the controls actually operate, with us alongside your team

8

Certificate & Surveillance

Certificate issued for three years, with the annual surveillance calendar already set

Benefits of ISO 27001 Certification

What Philippine organisations actually get once the certificate is issued and the ISMS is running.

Controls You Can Point To

Access reviews, logging and backups running on a schedule, not on memory

Shorter Vendor Reviews

Send the certificate and SoA instead of filling another security questionnaire

NPC & BSP Readiness

Documented measures that answer RA 10173 duties and BSP IT risk expectations

Access to Bigger Contracts

Clear the security prequalification stage in enterprise and government tenders

Fewer Repeat Incidents

Root cause and corrective action close the loop instead of the same issue returning

Board-Ready Reporting

Management review gives leadership a real view of risk, not a status colour

IT-BPM Differentiation

Stand apart in a crowded Philippine outsourcing market on something verifiable

A Base for GDPR & SOC 2

The same controls carry into ISO 27701, GDPR answers and a SOC 2 Type 2 report

Risk Handled on a Cycle

A register that gets reviewed on a date, with owners who know it is theirs

ISO 27001 Certification Cost & Price in the Philippines

ISO 27001 certification cost, the total price you pay, has two separate halves that people often confuse: what you pay a consultant to get ready, and the ISO 27001 audit cost charged by the accredited certification body. We quote the first and help you budget the second.

Scope Size

Headcount inside the ISMS boundary, number of sites and whether production floors are included. Audit days are calculated largely from headcount, so scope is the single biggest lever on both consulting fees and ISO 27001 audit cost.

Current Maturity

A company that already runs access reviews, ticketing and backups needs far less build work. The ISO 27001 gap analysis tells you where you sit before you commit to a figure, which is why we always run it first.

Certification Body Fees

Stage 1 and Stage 2 are billed separately by the certification body, usually per auditor day, plus travel where the site sits outside Metro Manila. This is the ISO 27001 audit cost and it is paid to them, not to us.

Internal Audit

An ISO 27001 internal audit is mandatory under Clause 9.2. Some clients run it in house once trained, others ask us to run it independently each year. Both are priced as a standalone line so you can choose.

Three-Year Cycle

Budget for the certificate as a three year commitment: initial certification, then two annual surveillance audits, then recertification. Planning it this way avoids the surprise invoice in year two.

Tooling & Remediation

Gaps sometimes need spend on multi-factor authentication, endpoint protection, logging, a ticketing tool or physical access hardware. We flag these during gap analysis so they enter your budget early rather than mid project.

How we quote: we do not publish a single ISO 27001 price, because a forty person software team in Ortigas and a nine hundred seat contact centre in Cebu are not the same job. Tell us headcount, sites, cloud footprint and your target certification date, and you get a fixed fee written proposal covering ISO 27001 certification services, plus an indicative ISO 27001 audit cost range from certification bodies we work with regularly.

ISO 27001 Certification FAQs

The questions Philippine clients ask most often about getting certified, ISO 27001 cost, certification bodies, internal audit, external audit, surveillance audit, gap assessment and working with an ISO consultant.

How long does ISO 27001 certification take in the Philippines?
Most Philippine organisations reach certification in three to six months. A tightly scoped team with existing IT controls moves faster; a multi-site operation, or one starting from very little documentation, takes longer. The honest answer comes after the ISO 27001 gap analysis, because that tells us how much build work is actually left rather than guessing from headcount.
How can my company get ISO 27001 certified in the Philippines?
Define the scope of your ISMS, run an ISO 27001 gap analysis, complete the risk assessment and Statement of Applicability, implement the missing controls, then finish with an internal audit and management review. After that an accredited certification body performs the Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits and issues the certificate. Univate prepares you for each step and sits with your team through both audit stages.
Where do I get ISO 27001 certification in Manila or elsewhere in the Philippines?
The ISO 27001 certificate is issued by an accredited certification body, not by a consultant. Univate, based in Makati, gets you ready: gap analysis, ISMS implementation, internal audit and audit support for organisations in Manila, Cebu, Clark, Davao and across the country. We then help you compare accredited bodies and book the Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits.
What is the ISO 27001 certification cost and price in the Philippines?
ISO 27001 certification cost depends on headcount inside the scope, number of sites, cloud footprint and how mature your current controls are. It splits into consulting fees for readiness and the separate audit fees charged by the certification body. Send us your scope details and you get a fixed fee written proposal plus an indicative audit cost range, not an open ended day rate. The same applies to an ISO IEC 27001 certification cost quote, because ISO 27001 and ISO/IEC 27001 are the same standard.
What is included in ISO 27001 audit cost?
The ISO 27001 audit cost is what the accredited certification body charges. It typically covers Stage 1 documentation review, the Stage 2 audit, certificate issuance and then annual surveillance audits across the three year cycle. Auditor days are driven mainly by the number of people in scope, and travel is billed on top when your site sits outside Metro Manila. This fee is paid directly to the certification body and is separate from consulting fees.
Why do I need an ISO 27001 gap analysis first?
An ISO 27001 gap analysis measures your current position against Clauses 4 to 10 and all 93 Annex A controls before anyone commits budget. It separates three different situations: controls you already run properly, controls you run but never documented, and controls that genuinely do not exist. Without it you are pricing a project blind, and most cost overruns we see come from skipping this step.
Is an ISO 27001 internal audit mandatory before certification?
Yes. Clause 9.2 of the standard requires internal audits at planned intervals, and the certification body will ask to see the audit programme, the reports and evidence that findings were closed. An ISO 27001 internal audit also works as your dress rehearsal, and it is far cheaper to find a gap internally than to carry a major nonconformity into Stage 2.
Can our own staff perform the internal audit?
They can, provided the auditor is competent and independent of the area being audited, since nobody audits their own work. Many Philippine companies train two or three internal auditors and use them for routine cycles, then bring in an external Lead Auditor before certification and recertification for an objective read. We support either model.
Is ISO 27001 mandatory in the Philippines?
No law makes ISO 27001 itself compulsory. But the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (RA 10173) requires reasonable organisational, physical and technical measures, and BSP supervised institutions must demonstrate IT risk management. ISO 27001 is the framework most commonly used to satisfy both, and in IT-BPM it is effectively mandatory because clients write it into the contract.
How does ISO 27001 help with NPC compliance?
The National Privacy Commission expects personal information controllers and processors to have real, documented security measures. An ISO 27001 ISMS produces exactly that paper trail: a risk register, access control records, breach response procedures, supplier agreements and training logs. When a question arrives you retrieve evidence rather than reconstruct it.
Why do Philippine BPO companies need ISO 27001 certification?
Philippine BPO and IT-BPM firms process payroll, healthcare claims, KYC documents and card data for clients in the US, UK, Australia and Japan. Those clients now list ISO 27001 certification as a prequalification requirement. Without the certificate you are filtered out before commercial discussion; with it, onboarding and due diligence move much faster.
What changed between ISO 27001:2013 and ISO 27001:2022?
The 2022 version reorganises Annex A from 14 categories and 114 controls into four themes and 93 controls: Organizational, People, Physical and Technological. Eleven new controls were added covering cloud services, threat intelligence, data masking, secure coding and monitoring. New certifications are issued against the 2022 version, and organisations still holding 2013 certificates have been required to transition.
Can ISO 27001 be combined with ISO 27701?
Yes. ISO 27701 is built as an extension of ISO 27001, adding privacy controls to create a Privacy Information Management System. For Philippine organisations handling large volumes of personal data under RA 10173, or serving EU clients with GDPR clauses, running both together means one audit cycle and one set of evidence instead of two parallel programmes.
Which ISO 27001 certification bodies (certifying bodies) operate in the Philippines?
Several accredited ISO 27001 certification bodies audit in the Philippines, including TUV, BSI, Bureau Veritas, SGS, DNV and Certification International. We stay independent of all of them, we do not take referral fees, and we help you compare quoted audit days, accreditation mark, industry familiarity and lead time so the choice stays yours.
How long is the ISO 27001 certificate valid, and what is a surveillance audit?
Three years from the date of issue. Within that period you undergo annual surveillance audits, usually smaller in scope than the original Stage 2. At the end of the cycle a recertification audit renews the certificate for another three years, so budget and plan for the full cycle rather than the first audit alone. An ISO 27001 surveillance audit checks that the ISMS is still running: the internal audit programme, management review, corrective actions and a sample of controls.
Is ISO 27001 the same as ISO/IEC 27001 certification?
Yes. The standard is published jointly by ISO and IEC, so its full name is ISO/IEC 27001, and the current edition is ISO/IEC 27001:2022. Most people shorten it to ISO 27001, ISO27001 or simply 27001 certification. They all refer to the same information security management standard and the same certificate.
What does ISO 27001 implementation (ISMS implementation) involve?
ISO 27001 implementation means turning the standard into working practice, and ISMS 27001 certification is only awarded once that ISMS is implemented and audited. It covers agreeing the scope, assessing risk, writing the policies and procedures, assigning control owners, rolling out the Annex A controls that apply to you, training staff and collecting records as evidence. It is the largest part of the project, and the ISO 27001 gap analysis shows how much of it you have already done.
What does an ISO 27001 consultant in the Philippines do?
An ISO consultant in the Philippines gets your organisation ready for the certification audit. That means a gap assessment, risk assessment, Statement of Applicability, policies and procedures, control implementation, staff training and an internal audit, followed by support through the Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits. The consultant does not issue the certificate. An accredited certification body does that. Univate works as your ISO 27001 consultant from first scoping call to certificate and annual surveillance.
Which ISO certification is right for cyber security?
For most organisations, ISO 27001 is the ISO certification for cyber security and information security. It certifies an information security management system covering people, process, physical and technology controls. Other standards can sit on top of it, such as ISO 27701 for privacy, ISO 27017 and ISO 27018 for cloud services, and ISO 22301 for business continuity. If a client has asked for ISO certification cyber security evidence without naming a standard, ISO 27001 is usually what they mean.
What is an ISO 27001 external audit, and what happens in Stage 1 and Stage 2?
The ISO 27001 certification audit is an external audit carried out by an accredited certification body. In the Stage 1 audit the auditor reviews your scope, policies, risk assessment and Statement of Applicability to confirm you are ready. In the Stage 2 audit the auditor tests whether your controls actually operate, using interviews, records and samples. Any nonconformity must be closed with a corrective action before the certification decision. The ISO 27001 Stage 1 and Stage 2 audit usually happen a few weeks apart, and Univate prepares your team for both.
What is the difference between an ISO 27001 gap assessment and a gap analysis?
In practice they mean the same thing. An ISO 27001 gap assessment, or gap analysis, compares your current controls with the requirements of Clauses 4 to 10 and the 93 Annex A controls, then lists what exists, what is undocumented and what is missing. The output is an action list with owners and effort estimates, and it is the basis for pricing the rest of the project.
Do we also need a SOC 2 Type 2 report?
Not always. ISO 27001 is a certificate issued by an accredited certification body against a standard. A SOC 2 Type 2 report is an attestation by a CPA firm on how your controls operated over a period of time, often several months. US customers often ask for SOC 2, while enterprise and Asia-Pacific buyers often ask for ISO 27001. The two overlap heavily, so an ISO 27001 ISMS gives you a strong base for a SOC 2 Type 2 report, and we can plan both together.

ISO 27001 Certification Services for Philippine Organisations

Whether you are starting with an ISO 27001 gap analysis, need an independent ISO 27001 internal audit before your certification body arrives, or simply want a defensible view of ISO 27001 certification cost and ISO 27001 audit cost before taking a proposal to your board, Univate delivers ISO 27001 certification services end to end, whether you call it ISO 27001, ISO27001 or 27001 certification. We work with BPO, banking, healthcare, technology and government teams across Manila, Cebu, Clark, Davao and the rest of the country, aligning every ISMS to the Data Privacy Act, NPC expectations and BSP cybersecurity requirements, so ISO 27001 Philippines work and ISO certification Philippines projects become controlled projects with a date on it rather than an open ended IT exercise.

ISO 27001 Services We Provide in the Philippines

Each ISO certification Philippines engagement below is scoped and priced separately, so you can start exactly where you are.

ISO 27001 Certification

The full ISO 27001 certification programme in Manila and across the Philippines, from scoping to certificate, run as a project with named owners, dated milestones and a target audit window agreed at the start.

ISO 27001 Certification Services

Modular ISO 27001 certification services covering documentation, control build, training and audit support, taken individually or as a bundle depending on what your team can absorb.

ISO 27001 Gap Analysis

A control by control ISO 27001 gap analysis against Clauses 4 to 10 and all 93 Annex A controls, delivered as an owner assigned action list with effort estimates.

ISO 27001 Internal Audit

Independent ISO 27001 internal audit under Clause 9.2, run by a Lead Auditor, with sampling, clause referenced findings and a corrective action closure log.

ISO 27001 Certification Cost Planning

A written breakdown of ISO 27001 certification cost covering consulting, tooling, remediation and certification body fees, modelled across the full three year cycle.

ISO 27001 Audit Cost Guidance

Help comparing quoted ISO 27001 audit cost across accredited bodies: auditor days, accreditation mark, travel loading and surveillance fees, so you compare like with like.

ISMS Implementation

Hands-on ISMS implementation: scope, risk treatment, policies, control rollout and training, with every control owner named and every record kept as audit evidence.

ISO 27001 Surveillance Audit

Preparation and support for each annual ISO 27001 surveillance audit, so the internal audit, management review and corrective actions are ready before the certification body arrives.

SOC 2 Type 2 Report Readiness

Reuse your ISO 27001 controls and evidence to prepare for a SOC 2 Type 2 report, so US customers and ISO 27001 buyers are both answered with one security programme.

ISO 27001 Implementation

ISO 27001 implementation from scope to working controls: ISMS 27001 certification readiness, with named control owners, training and records kept as audit evidence.

ISO 27001 Consultant Philippines

An ISO 27001 consultant based in Makati, supporting ISO consultant Philippines projects in Manila, Cebu, Clark and Davao from the first scoping call to the certificate.

ISO 27001 Stage 1 & Stage 2 Audit

Preparation and support for the ISO 27001 Stage 1 audit and Stage 2 audit, so the ISO 27001 certification audit does not bring surprises.

ISO 27001 External Audit

Help with the ISO 27001 external audit by an accredited body: evidence packs, readiness walkthroughs and closing nonconformities with corrective actions.

ISO 27001 Gap Assessment

A control by control ISO 27001 gap assessment that shows where you stand before you commit budget, with owners and effort for every gap.

ISO Certification for Cyber Security

ISO 27001 is the ISO certification for cyber security most buyers ask for. We help you earn it and keep it through surveillance and recertification, with ISO IEC 27001 certification cost explained up front.

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