HKSQ & HKQAA - TID Project Implementation Workshop for Startups – Information Security

HKSQ applied the Trade and Industry Department (TID) Funded project named “Feasibility Study on the Quality of Hong Kong Start-up Development for Supporting the Sustainable Business Growth” and HKQAA is our implementation agent. In the last stage, we arranged several workshops to share the study results and guidelines for startup.  The third workshops named “Implementation Workshop for Startups – Information Security” (初創企業實踐工作坊－資訊保安) was held on 1 Jun 2022. I represented HKSQ to attend the workshop.

Mr. KT Ting (HKQAA) is the speaker.  Firstly, he briefed how to get trust and confidence from investors and customers through confidentiality, integrity, availability, balanced approach and technology.

When your startup growth, some dangerous place should be considered. For example, customer base focused by black hackers, sales volume increase and workforce increase that causes information security risks. Then he briefed some Infosec cases in Hong Kong recently.

And then Mr. Ting mentioned why information security matter to startup business plan included business nature, customers, IT infrastructure, value of information, capital investments and operation expenditures, etc.

After that he explained difficulties to preserve confidential, integrity and availability of information that followed Murphy’s law “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong”.

Finally, Mr. Ting introduced ISO 27001 standards. However, startup is not enough resource to get certification. So, he suggested to use the principle and as reference to enhance the concept on information security.

The first step is to set the infosec policy.

Statement of applicability based on appendix A of ISO 27001 was briefed that included many controls and control objectives.

Lastly, he briefed several types of controls included personal, administrative and technological control so as to reduce the infosec risk.

At the end, some risk mitigation strategy was stated and the next workshop would focus on risk and financial management.

Reference:

HKSQ - www.hksq.org

HKQAA - http://www.hkqaa.org/

TID SME Development Fund (SDF) - https://www.smefund.tid.gov.hk/english/tsf/sdf_background.html

One of my relevant publication about startup named “Implementing the Quality Startup Management System model in Hong Kong: a case study” and posted at https://jqualityinnovation.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40887-017-0013-x .

HKQAA Hong Kong Registration - Start-ups:  http://hkqaa.org/en_regservice.php?catid=13

HKSQ TID Funded Project website - https://hksqstartup.hkqaa.org/

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