IPG Health’s Trio Earns Top International Security Certification

Agency Achieves ISO 27001 Certification for Marketing Services

IPG Health today announced that Trio, a full-service medical education and communications agency within the network, has earned International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001:2013 certification for information security management systems (ISMS) – further demonstrating the agency’s commitment to the highest level of internal compliance and security. With ISO 27001:2013 certification, Trio is recognized as one of the few medical education and healthcare communications agencies to guarantee the use of robust data security controls conforming with this internationally recognized standard.

“At Trio, we take ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information and data with which we are entrusted very seriously,” said Brian Raineri, PharmD, Co-Managing Director of Trio. “This certification further demonstrates our commitment to information security without compromise, and I look forward to the benefits that it will bring to our agency and employees, our clients and the healthcare professionals with whom we partner.”

Trio attained ISO 27001:2013 following a rigorous company-wide external audit during which the agency demonstrated a systematic and documented approach to protecting and managing sensitive company and client information including intellectual property, employee and customer data, financial information and information shared by third parties.

As a medical education and communications agency, Trio is an inherently data-centric organization that is entrusted with information on all levels and stages, from unpublished data related to clients’ products to personal and confidential data for thousands of healthcare professionals. This standardization adopts a process-based approach for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, maintaining and improving the agency’s ISMS.

About Trio, an IPG Health Company

Part of the IPG Health network, Trio is a full-service, multichannel, medical education and communications agency that specializes in optimizing connections between HCPs, content, and technology to deliver unparalleled peer-to-peer experiences. Trio’s clients include global and U.S.-based marketing and medical affairs teams in both the pharmaceutical and medical device sectors. With creativity and experiential in its DNA, the agency’s capabilities are full spectrum and include scientific strategy, live/virtual peer-to-peer and innovative digital/nonpersonal programming. In 2021, Trio won Gold at the MM+M Awards for the inaugural Medical Communications Agency of the Year distinction. Visit trio-hc.com to learn more.