When you commit to getting ISO 9001 certified, you commit to meeting the needs of customers and other stakeholders regarding your product or service through a comprehensive quality management system (QMS). But it’s not enough to meet the standard—you have to get ISO 9001 certified, which involves an initial certification audit, further surveillance audits, and recertification in order to maintain an accredited certification.

As such a comprehensive standard, ISO 27001 has been skyrocketing in popularity in recent years as a framework of choice for many organizations and their information security. But just as its holistic approach provides many advantages, there’s also a lot to consider and prepare for—as well as a lot of potential stumbling blocks.

While the rapid pace at which artificial intelligence (AI) technology has been both developing and impacting several areas of our daily lives continues, so do the concerns about the tech’s safety, privacy, and bias. As there’s no stopping the ongoing integration of AI, organizations are now wondering what they can do to ease those concerns, and the answer is simple—start with protecting your data.

When seeking ISO 9001 certification, part of that road to compliance will be aligning your required quality management system (QMS) with the key clauses (4-10) within the standard, each of which focuses on a specific facet of that management system—context, leadership, planning, support, operation, performance evaluation, and improvement.

On February 23, 2024, ISO (along with the International Accreditation Federation (IAF)) published short amendments to all standards aligned with its Harmonized Structure. In the form of new requirement language and one additional note, ISO has now adapted climate change concerns as considerations for a wide range of popular certifications.

Stepping foot into Davos for the very first time was akin to entering a realm of unparalleled wonder. While getting the invitation itself had been surreal, actually walking in as a delegate of the Cyber Future Foundation felt like a dream materializing into reality.

Following the publication of ISO 42001, many organizations are more seriously considering adherence to this intriguing standard for artificial intelligence (AI). Those familiar with established ISO standards understand that this newer framework for regulating AI will be similarly rigorous and any opportunity to streamline certification, like using a gap assessment, will be enormously advantageous.

Like many of the other ISO standards, ISO 22301 features introductory clauses (1-3), and it also has its own fundamental clauses (4-10)—of these, clause 8 (Operation) is key to standing up the Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) and achieving ISO 22301 certification.