Glossary term
Glossary term
Governance and Compliance
Management-system standard for artificial intelligence governance.
BSI Group issued the first ISO 42001 certification to an AI company in 2024 - demonstrating that an organisation's AI management system meets international governance requirements for risk, ethics, and transparency.
A European insurance company sought ISO 42001 certification ahead of EU AI Act enforcement, using the standard's Annex A controls to build an auditable AI inventory, impact-assessment process, and incident registry.
KPMG's AI governance practice uses ISO 42001 as the readiness framework for client assessments - aligning it with ISO 27001 information-security controls to avoid duplicated governance overhead.