Why not implement actual controls? I built a full PDP/PEP ready for ZT environments.... this enables measurable data for a more concrete method to trank and manage AI agentic workflows.
Part of the evaluator question already has a written answer, and it did not come from the labs. ISO/IEC 42006:2025, published in July 2025, sets requirements for bodies that audit and certify AI management systems against ISO/IEC 42001. It builds on ISO/IEC 17021-1, which means the auditor is accredited by a third party rather than chosen by the organisation being audited, and it covers competence, impartiality and how assessments are run. What the standard does not settle is disclosure: certification tells the outside world that a body checked something, not what the body found.
Thank u! that is an important technical distinction. You are right that ISO/IEC 42006 sets requirements for certification bodies, while accreditation is a separate layer of third-party oversight of those bodies; the standard itself does not mean that every individual auditor is independently accredited. I will revise that formulation to avoid overstating the point.
My broader argument remains the same: an ISO/IEC 42001 certificate indicates that an AI management system has been assessed by a certification body, but it does not make the audit’s scope, evidence, nonconformities, corrective actions, or residual risks publicly visible. Certification can therefore provide assurance that an assessment took place without providing meaningful transparency into what that assessment found.
The accreditation layer is not uniform across jurisdictions, which is what makes an ISO/IEC 42001 certificate hard to read at face value. In the EU, Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 Article 4 gives each Member State a single national accreditation body, operated as a public authority activity and on a not-for-profit basis, and Article 10 puts those bodies through peer evaluation. My view is that a certificate is only as strong as the accreditation behind it, and the certificate itself does not show that.
Why not implement actual controls? I built a full PDP/PEP ready for ZT environments.... this enables measurable data for a more concrete method to trank and manage AI agentic workflows.
Part of the evaluator question already has a written answer, and it did not come from the labs. ISO/IEC 42006:2025, published in July 2025, sets requirements for bodies that audit and certify AI management systems against ISO/IEC 42001. It builds on ISO/IEC 17021-1, which means the auditor is accredited by a third party rather than chosen by the organisation being audited, and it covers competence, impartiality and how assessments are run. What the standard does not settle is disclosure: certification tells the outside world that a body checked something, not what the body found.
Thank u! that is an important technical distinction. You are right that ISO/IEC 42006 sets requirements for certification bodies, while accreditation is a separate layer of third-party oversight of those bodies; the standard itself does not mean that every individual auditor is independently accredited. I will revise that formulation to avoid overstating the point.
My broader argument remains the same: an ISO/IEC 42001 certificate indicates that an AI management system has been assessed by a certification body, but it does not make the audit’s scope, evidence, nonconformities, corrective actions, or residual risks publicly visible. Certification can therefore provide assurance that an assessment took place without providing meaningful transparency into what that assessment found.
The accreditation layer is not uniform across jurisdictions, which is what makes an ISO/IEC 42001 certificate hard to read at face value. In the EU, Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 Article 4 gives each Member State a single national accreditation body, operated as a public authority activity and on a not-for-profit basis, and Article 10 puts those bodies through peer evaluation. My view is that a certificate is only as strong as the accreditation behind it, and the certificate itself does not show that.