Marlabs Certifications
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Marlabs Inc. is committed to delivering high standards of excellence and holds several certifications, including CMMI Level 5 and SSAE 16 Type II, indicating its strong focus on quality and performance management. As a certified minority business enterprise, Marlabs connects corporate America with minority-owned businesses while adhering to ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 27001 standards for quality and information security management. The company is also recognized as a HITRUST CSF Assessor, enabling it to assist healthcare organizations in implementing effective security management programs.
Marlabs Certifications
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- 2. Marlabs Inc © all rights reserved 2015. www.marlabs.com CERTIFICATIONS Delivering at the highest standards of excellence defines Marlabs' commitment to all the stakeholders. This is the key to all our processes and project deliverables. Marlabs is a CMMI and SSAE 16 Type II certified company. Our strong and flexible Process and Quality Management System (PQMS) that was developed based on industry best practices and standards, such as SEI CMMI, ISO 9001:2000, ISO 27001, SAS, PMBOK, and PCMM further exhibit our focus on quality. CMMI CMMI is a proven approach to performance management with decades of results showing it works. Organizations using CMMI have predictable cost, schedule, and quality— business results that serve as discriminators among their competitors. CMMI is built with practices and goals seen in thousands of real organizations worldwide. CMMI provides guidance for efficient, effective improvement across multiple process disciplines in an organization. It benefits the organization by providing a common, integrated vision of improvement. The ultimate benefit is improved performance that means decreased costs, improved on-time delivery, improved productivity, improved quality, and improved customer satisfaction. CMMi Level 5 Marlabs is a CMMI Level 5 certified company. An assessment at maturity Level 5 demonstrates that Marlabs is functioning at an "optimizing" level, a level at which an organization continually improves its processes based on a quantifiable understanding of its performance requirements and business objectives. CMMI Institute Minority Business Enterprise (Issued: 9-4-2013) The National Minority Supplier Development Council, Inc. ® (NMSDC®) provides a direct
- 3. Marlabs Inc © all rights reserved 2015. www.marlabs.com link between corporate America and minority-owned businesses. NMSDC is one of the country's leading business membership organizations. It was chartered in 1972 to provide increased procurement and business opportunities for minority businesses of all sizes. Marlabs is a Minority Business Enterprise certified by NMSDC. Their rigorous certification process is considered the gold standard for certifying minority-owned businesses by corporate America. The NMSDC Affiliate Regional Councils located throughout the country are responsible for certifying businesses owned by Asian, Black, Hispanic and Native American business owners using guidelines established by the National Minority Supplier Development Council. http://www.nmsdc.org ISO 9001:2000 ISO 9001:2000 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization needs to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide product that meets customer and applicable regulatory requirements, and aims to enhance customer satisfaction through the effective application of the system, including processes for continual improvement of the system and the assurance of conformity to customer and applicable regulatory requirements. www.iso.org SSAE-16.com Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 16, Reporting on Controls at a Service Organization, was finalized by the Auditing Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) in January 2010. SSAE 16 was drafted with the intention and purpose of updating the US service organization reporting standard so that it mirrors and complies with the new international service organization reporting standard – ISAE 3402. Service organizations can receive significant value from having a SSAE 16 examination performed. A Service Auditor's Report with an unqualified opinion that is issued by an Independent Auditing Firm differentiates the service organization from its
- 4. Marlabs Inc © all rights reserved 2015. www.marlabs.com peers by demonstrating the establishment of control objectives and effectively designed control activities. A Service Auditor's Report can also help a service organization build trust with its user organizations . http://ssae16.com HITRUST Marlabs has been designated by the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) as a Common Security Framework (CSF) Assessor. Marlabs is one of only a select few companies nationwide to achieve CSF Assessor status, which allows it to perform assessment and other services related to the CSF, the most widely adopted security framework in the healthcare industry. HITRUST CSF Assessors are the only organizations approved by HITRUST to perform services associated with the HITRUST CSF Assurance Program. The CSF Assurance Program provides multiple benefits to both healthcare organizations and their business associates by offering a common and efficient approach to managing security assessments associated with multiple and varied assurance requirements. As a CSF Assessor, Marlabs is best positioned to help healthcare organizations implement an effective information security management program that addresses security and privacy threats appropriately and meets all applicable compliance requirements. http://www.hitrustalliance.net
- 5. Marlabs Inc © all rights reserved 2015. www.marlabs.com ISO 27001 ISO 27001 is the specification for an Information Security Management System (ISMS). The objective of the standard itself is to "provide a model for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining, and improving an Information Security Management System". Its adoption was a strategic decision for Marlabs. The standard defines its 'process approach' as "The application of a system of processes within an organization, together with the identification and interactions of these processes, and their management". http://www.27000.org/iso-27001.htm