Symbio Group Announces ISO 27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS) Certification


ROCKVILLE, MD and BEIJING--(Marketwire - June 3, 2008) - The Symbio Group (www.symbio-group.com) today announced that it has achieved ISO 27001:2005 Information Security Management Solution (ISMS) certification. Symbio is a leading provider of outsourced software development, testing, globalization, and support services out of China.

"We are proud to achieve ISO 27001 ISMS certification, as further proof of our commitment to providing the highest levels of security to our customers that outsource their software development to our China-based teams," said Jake Hsu, CEO of the Symbio Group. "We continue to build upon our success in software development outsourcing, and lead in providing customers with high quality software development."

The ISMS certification for Symbio's Beijing Development Center includes network administration and desktop maintenance, human resource management and administrative management. The ISO/IEC 27001:2005 is the most popular and highest security standard worldwide and is used to assess security control and management of a company.

Symbio maintains dual headquarters in Rockville, MD and Beijing, China and operates 12 global offices and development centers worldwide, with more than 800 employees. Symbio's software development centers are located in Beijing, Chengdu, Taipei and Weihai.

About Symbio

Symbio leverages China outsourcing teams to help companies become global leaders. It helps organizations accelerate their software development and testing cycles by optimal application of its global resources and delivery models. Symbio also localizes and supports technology products for any language or locale. Founded in 1994 by a group of engineers from IBM's international research and development labs in Asia, Symbio functions as a cost-effective and highly efficient extension of an organization's development, testing and globalization teams. Symbio's clients include: AOL, BMC, CA, Citigroup, EMC, FileNet, IBM, MasterCard, Mercedes Benz, Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle, Palm, Sony, as well as more than 300 other leading organizations.

For further information on Symbio, please visit www.symbio-group.com, email marketing@symbio-group.com or call 650-356-1981.

Contact Information: For more media information, contact: Lisa Hendrickson LCH Communications for Symbio Group 516-767-8390