ISO/IEC 42001 is the world's first certifiable standard for AI management systems, and it is rapidly becoming the way organisations demonstrate responsible AI to customers, boards and regulators. We do not merely consult on it: Cybercontrols holds the certificate itself, and our consultants audit AIMS on behalf of certification bodies.
Whether you are formalising AI practices that already exist, or starting from a blank page with the EU AI Act on the horizon, the engagement is shaped around your AI footprint, your risk profile and your deadline, never a template.
Design and build of an AI management system to ISO/IEC 42001:2023, from AI system inventory and impact assessment through risk classification, human oversight and lifecycle controls: auditable, ethical and certification-ready from day one.
An impartial audit of your AIMS by Senior Lead Auditors who assess these systems for certification bodies, and who have carried their own AIMS through certification. Findings in plain language, with a remediation route your team can follow.
AI regulation moves faster than any other domain we audit. We keep the AIMS current through surveillance audits, control updates and continual improvement, and translate developments such as the EU AI Act into concrete actions.
Plenty of consultancies discovered AI governance eighteen months ago. Cybercontrols carried its own AI management system through ISO/IEC 42001 certification, so every recommendation we make has been tested on ourselves first, and our consultants audit AIMS on behalf of certification bodies, so we know precisely how yours will be assessed. AI governance is one leg of our triangle of control: information security, privacy and AI, run as one integrated management system.
ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certified ourselves, with the audit scars and the evidence files to show for it.
We map AIMS controls to AI Act obligations, so one system serves the certificate and the regulation.
42001 integrates cleanly with ISO 27001 security and ISO 27701 privacy: one system, three certificates.
Senior Lead Implementer and Senior Lead Auditor credentials on every engagement. No juniors, no hand-offs.
We map every AI system you build, buy or embed, including the ones hiding inside SaaS tools, and define the AIMS scope against ISO/IEC 42001:2023. You will know exactly where you stand, whatever your AI maturity.
AI system impact assessments and risk classification your leadership can engage with, covering fairness, transparency, safety and accountability: the analysis your assessor, and increasingly your customers, will read first.
Governance, human oversight and lifecycle controls deployed inside your existing development and procurement workflows. Controls that enable responsible AI use rather than smothering it.
A full internal audit and management review, then a mock assessment run exactly as the certification body will run it. You enter stage 1 and stage 2 prepared, not hopeful.
Support through the certification audit, then ongoing surveillance, regulatory monitoring and continual improvement as your AI footprint, and the rules around it, grow.
Any organisation that develops, provides or uses AI systems and needs to demonstrate it does so responsibly: software companies embedding AI in products, enterprises deploying it in operations, and suppliers being asked hard questions in procurement. If AI touches your revenue or your risk register, the standard is relevant.
The certificate does not equal legal compliance, but a well-built AIMS is the most practical vehicle for operating and evidencing AI Act obligations: risk management, transparency, human oversight, logging and documentation. We map every control to the corresponding obligation so one system serves both.
Cleanly, and that is how we prefer to build. The management system spine is shared, so AI governance adds to what you already operate rather than duplicating it. This is the triangle of control we run for ourselves: 27001, 27701 and 42001 as one system.
For an organisation with an existing management system, typically three to five months to stage 2; from a standing start, more like five to seven. Your scoping call ends with a realistic timeline in weeks, and we hold ourselves to it.
A 30-minute scoping call with a senior lead auditor who has been through this certification from both sides of the table.