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MeaningCloud achieves ISO/IEC 27001 certification

In MeaningCloud, we know how important it is to manage and ensure information security, even more so for a platform that processes all kinds of texts — including texts with sensitive information — to help you extract insightful information from them. For this reason, at the end of last year Sngular prioritized confirming and improving our good practices by obtaining the ISO 27001 certification, which we achieved in our first attempt in February after following an extensive audit process carried out by RINA.

For those unfamiliar with it, ISO/IEC 27001 is an information security standard that specifies a management system that is intended to bring information security under management control and gives specific requirements.

Organizations that meet the requirements may be certified by an accredited certification body following successful completion of an audit. The standard is published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) under a joint subcommittee.

ISO27001

The certification obtained applies to both MeaningCloud in its SaaS and its on-premises version, and includes all its stages: development, maintenance and deployment.

MeaningCloud adheres to the Privacy Shield Framework

Privacy Shield Framework

At MeaningCloud, privacy issues represent a major concern. That’s because we have adhered to the Privacy Shield Framework, to guarantee our EU and Swiss customers full compliance to the European regulation of data privacy issues, as established by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

What is the EU-US Privacy Shield

The EU–US Privacy Shield is a framework for regulating transatlantic exchanges of personal data for commercial purposes between the European Union and the United States. One of its objectives is to enable US companies to more easily receive personal data from EU entities under EU privacy laws meant to protect European Union citizens. The EU–US Privacy Shield is a replacement for the International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles, which were declared invalid by the European Court of Justice in October 2015.

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