Markforged, a leading provider of metal and carbon fibre 3-D printers (www.mark3d.com), has announced that it is the first ‘additive manufacturing platform’ to gain ISO 27001 certification.

This demonstrates that it has met “rigorous international standards in ensuring the privacy, confidentiality, integrity and availability of the entire Markforged ecosystem” (www.markforged.com).

David Benhaim, CTO at Markforged, said: “We believe that every product and engineering decision we make has a security component to it, and our customers and their data are at the centre.

"We are setting the standard for additive manufacturing, and our strategic investment in maintaining a robust security programme and completion of this internationally recognised certification process demonstrates our steadfast commitment to security and the protection of our customers’ data.”

Compliance with this standard is said to exemplify Markforged’s commitment to “monitoring adherence to best practices through repeatable processes, including data transmission, storage, logging, access controls, operations, cryptography, management of third parties, incident management, tracking of threats, and continuous improvement.”

More information about this standard can be found at the Web site (www.iso.org/isoiec-27001-information-security.html).