KuCoin earns ISO 22301:2019 certification for business continuity

KuCoin has secured ISO 22301:2019 certification for its Business Continuity Management Systems, a standardized framework designed to ensure organizations can keep operating through disruptions like cyberattacks, infrastructure failures, or the kind of chaos that tends to find crypto platforms at the worst possible moments. The certification was announced on August 11. What the certification actually means ISO 22301:2019 is the international standard for business continuity management. In practical terms, it means an independent auditor has verified that KuCoin has documented plans and processes in place to maintain critical services during various types of disruptions. KuCoin CEO BC Wong noted that operational resilience is now considered equally critical as security measures in the evolving digital asset sector. Building a compliance stack The ISO 22301 certification doesn’t exist in isolation. KuCoin has been assembling what it calls a “Trust Framework,” layering multiple compliance certifications on top of each other. The exchange already holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification for information security management, SOC 2 Type II attestation for operational controls, and ISO/IEC 27...