ISO 42001 Certification Consulting Services
The ISO 42001 certification can help you prove to your stakeholders and customers that your organization is responsibly developing and using artificial intelligence (AI) systems. It is the world’s first AI management system standard.
At CBIZ Pivot Point Security, we provide AI Governance and Advisory Services to help your organization establish clear and defined parameters governing the development and use of AI.
Our ISO 42001 consultants work closely with your team to evaluate the effectiveness of controls, verify alignment with evolving regulations, and implement management systems and strategies that enable your organization to realize AI benefits while maintaining compliance with laws, regulations, and good practices (e.g., NIST AI Risk Management Framework, EU AI Act, ISO 42001).
We are confident in our services, reflected in our 100% satisfaction guarantee. Partnering with us is about as “risk-free” as it can be, ensuring not only compliance but also a significant enhancement in your security posture.
Why ISO 42001 Matters
ISO 42001 is crucial for several reasons. It provides a structured approach to AI risk management, ensuring responsible development and deployment. By adhering to this standard, organizations enhance stakeholder trust and transparency, demonstrating a commitment to ethical AI practices.
Becoming ISO 42001 certified facilitates alignment with global compliance frameworks like the EU AI Act, NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF), and ISO 27001, streamlining regulatory compliance efforts. It also offers a significant competitive advantage and market differentiation, signaling to customers and partners that AI systems are managed responsibly and securely. Embracing ISO 42001 can help your organization mitigate risks associated with AI, enhancing overall security.
Our Proven Approach to Achieve Compliance
To help your organization achieve compliance, we follow the following approach:
Vision Phase
This phase involves understanding your business goals and strategizing. It includes these steps:
- Project initiation: We begin collaborating.
- Kickoff: You meet your team of AI management experts to confirm objectives and logistics.
- Interviews and artifact review: These help gain a clear understanding of your business.
- AI management system scope: The scope defines the AI use cases the program intends to protect, regulations and contractual obligations it’s subject to, the organization’s mission and strategies, management’s expectations, information security and privacy frameworks in use, and the controls that have been implemented.
- AI system impact assessment: This assessment is crucial for understanding an AI system’s potential impact on society (a requirement of regulatory and good guidance frameworks).
- AI management strategy: We develop a long-term strategy that is aligned with your business goals and security objectives.
- Gap assessment: A gap assessment reveals where you stand against your relevant frameworks (e.g., ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act).
- Risk assessment: This assessment identifies and analyzes potential risks to your organization.
Execution Phase
Here, we plan the work and work the plan. This phase includes:
- Gap/Risk remediation plans: We will deliver an actionable plan that prioritizes gap and risk remediation based on the organization’s long-term strategy.
- Program documentation: We work with your team to develop the documentation necessary to maintain compliance.
- Control operationalization: This simplifies life post-certification and ensures you can operate the AI Management System independently of CBIZ Pivot Point Security.
- Right products and right people: Our carefully cultivated “Trusted Ecosystem” makes it easier to select the appropriate vendors and products.
Validation Phase
This phase ensures your AI program creates the trusted information necessary for key stakeholders. It involves:
- Compliance calendar: You get a list of AI and Information security-related tasks to help you stay compliant.
- AI management system operation: We strategize and implement the required changes to update the program.
- Internal audit, technical testing, and attestation audit support: If you are pursuing ISO 42001, we help you undertake internal audits by providing expert guidance and supporting you through your attestation audit as an extension of your team to ensure its success.
- Provably secure documentation: Our team ensures you have the necessary artifacts to satisfy clients, regulators, and certification bodies.
- Evolve and improve: We help you continuously improve your program and make changes to maintain compliance down the line.
Key Consulting Services
We provide the following AI governance consulting services for ISO 42001 compliance:
AI Readiness Assessment
Our AI Readiness (Gap Assessment) offering is the foundation of our AI advisory services. Developed to be informative and actionable, it is tailored for organizations adopting, integrating, or outsourcing the use of AI systems that interact with or inform internal employees, their data, society, or their client base.
This offering identifies gaps in policies, controls, and risk management between your current AI governance and ISO 42001 requirements. It provides a comprehensive roadmap to compliance and aligns with frameworks such as the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF.
AI Management System Implementation
Organizations must validate AI technologies’ sound, fair, and unbiased use throughout the AI life cycle. Developing and implementing an AI governance framework aligned with ISO 42001 to create an AI Management System and its respective controls instills confidence among stakeholders, customers, and partners regarding an organization’s commitment to AI governance, risk management, and continuous improvement.
Here, we define risk management processes and accountability structures. We provide your team with expert implementation guidance in establishing and executing compliant policies and procedures to achieve ISO 42001 certification. Our team includes highly experienced AI privacy and security specialists, ensuring that your AI governance framework is both comprehensive and compliant with the latest standards and regulations. Our ISO 42001 consultants also assist with documentation and compliance requirements.
Comprehensive AI Governance Solutions
Comprehensive AI governance requires combining information security and privacy controls with corresponding management systems to shape a culture of organizational risk management and infuse broad governance across all stages of the AI system’s life cycle (i.e., ISO 5338 – AI System Life Cycle Processes). This offering is best suited for mature organizations, organizations adopting or developing “high-risk” AI systems (as defined by the EU Artificial Intelligence Act), or companies needing to demonstrate to clients, customers, and stakeholders that their adoption and development of AI systems are holistically governed and independently audited.
We provide your team with expert implementation guidance in establishing and executing a defined roadmap to achieve certification with ISO 27001 – Information Security Management System, ISO 27701 – Privacy Management System, and ISO 42001 – AI Management System. This comprehensive approach is well-suited for concurrently implementing these standards due to overlapping concepts, controls, policies, and responsible stakeholders and executive sponsors within your organization. It uses a holistic AI compliance strategy and proactive governance to address security, privacy, and ethics.
AI Third-Party Risk Management
Organizations outsourcing data and services to AI-driven applications and service providers should execute due diligence to ensure this AI technology has been designed and adopted in a manner compliant with ISO 42001 standards. Organizations are responsible for ensuring AI integrations deliver value without compromising security, compliance, or ethical standards. They should identify, assess, and mitigate potential risks that their external partners or vendors introduce.
This service helps your organization establish and revise internal policies, procedures, and outbound due diligence questionnaires to account for the unique risks presented by AI technologies.
Technical Advisory and AI Security Testing
Organizations encourage software engineers to adopt AI technologies to improve efficiencies, increase employee utilization and code output, and introduce new AI-driven features to their clients. This service offering involves risk assessments and penetration testing for AI applications. It helps identify vulnerabilities in AI models and deployment environments.
Our tailored services help your organizations adopt industry-recognized good practices around secure development and application security testing methodologies. We identify gaps and recommend controls to enhance the maturity of your secure development practices based on industry-recognized standards (e.g., NIST 800-218 – Secure Software Development Framework and OWASP Software Assurance Maturity Model).
This service is ideally paired with executing an OWASP Application Security Verification Standard-based penetration test against your AI-powered application(s) with an additional focus on adversarial machine learning exploitation techniques to ensure your applications are fundamentally secure.
Our Approach to CMMC Compliance
If your organization handles or stores sensitive data, you will likely need to be CMMC certified. Depending on your current cybersecurity status, we offer a full range of services to get your organization compliant:
Compliance Assessment:
Our team will thoroughly assess your current cybersecurity practices against CMMC requirements so you know exactly where you stand and if you’re ready to pass a third-party audit. This process includes a Gap Analysis to identify missing security measures.
Remediation Planning:
Your tailored remediation plan outlines how to bring your organization into full CMMC compliance, depending on the level you wish to achieve.
Implementation Support:
We work with your team to incorporate technical and non-technical controls to help achieve compliance.
Documentation Preparation:
We can prepare or guide the preparation of all essential documentation needed for your CMMC compliance program. This includes an SSP that outlines your organization’s cybersecurity system and a POA&M that details your plans for improving cybersecurity in any areas of current noncompliance.
CMMC Training:
CMMC training transforms your team into your greatest compliance asset.
Ongoing Compliance Management:
We continue to monitor and manage your installed controls to ensure ongoing CMMC compliance.
Compliance Automation With OSCAR GRC Platform
The CBIZ Pivot Point Security OSCAR Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) platform automates compliance, providing a central platform for managing all your requirements. It automates tracking and reporting and greatly simplifies your internal/external audits, saving time and resources.
Benefits of Our ISO 42001 Consulting Services
When you partner with CBIZ Pivot Point Security for ISO 42001 assistance, you gain access to advantages such as:
- Expert-led compliance readiness.
- Customized roadmaps tailored to unique AI use cases.
- Increased confidence among stakeholders, customers, and partners.
- Streamlined certification process with reduced overhead.
Why Trust Us?
CBIZ Pivot Point Security provides exceptional services to help organizations attain the ISO 42001 certification. For over 20 years, our processes have ensured reliability and efficiency in achieving desired outcomes, keeping our clients secure and compliant. We anticipate and mitigate potential risks to ensure smooth project execution, client satisfaction, and successful results.
Our seasoned professionals possess a wealth of AI, privacy, and information security expertise, ensuring a holistic approach to risk management. We will guide your company in navigating complex challenges with confidence and proficiency. We partner with mid-market business leaders to plan and execute comprehensive risk management strategies tailored to their unique needs and growth strategies that leverage AI. Our independent, external expertise and perspective allow leadership to feel confident that AI is being managed responsibly across the organization and supply chain.
Our world-class Net Promoter Score and extensive experience in the field underscore our commitment to excellence and client satisfaction.
FAQs
What Are the Benefits of ISO 42001 Certification?
The advantages of the ISO 42001 certification include:
- Provides a structured approach to AI risk management
- Enhances stakeholder trust and transparency
- Ensures alignment with global AI compliance frameworks
How Can We Start Preparing for ISO 42001 Certification?
To prepare for your certification, start by defining the scope of your AI Management System (AIMS), specifically including the objectives of the AIMS and the risks that it must address. Then, a gap assessment will be conducted to identify gaps in controls necessitated by the scope, risks, and ISO compliance. Closing those gaps will often require the development of policies and controls that align with ISO 42001 requirements. It may be beneficial to work with expert AI data governance consultants to streamline the certification journey.
How Does ISO 42001 Relate to Other Standards Like ISO 27001?
ISO 42001 focuses on AI governance, while ISO 27001 covers information security. Combining both ensures robust security and compliance for AI-driven organizations. Because the Management Systems of both are aligned, you can run both together, ensuring alignment of cyber, privacy, and AI governance, simplifying operations, and saving time.
Get Started With ISO 42001 Certification Preparation
Ensure your AI systems align with global compliance standards. Partner with CBIZ Pivot Point Security to achieve your certification. Contact us today for a consultation and customized roadmap to ISO 42001 compliance.
