4 posts tagged with "ISO 27001"

ISO/IEC 27701:2019 extends ISO 27001 with a Privacy Information Management System (PIMS). It adds privacy-specific clauses and controls on top of the ISO 27001 management system, mapping to GDPR, CCPA, and other major privacy regulations.

For organizations already certified to ISO 27001, adding ISO 27701 extends the existing management system rather than building a new one. The incremental effort is roughly 30–50% of the original ISO 27001 implementation, depending on how mature your privacy practices already are.

For AI systems that process personal data, ISO 27701 is the most rigorous international framework for demonstrating privacy compliance. The EU Commission has indicated that ISO 27701 certification can support GDPR adequacy assessments and serve as evidence of compliance under GDPR Article 5.

ISO/IEC 42001:2023 — published December 2023 — is the first international standard for Artificial Intelligence Management Systems (AIMS). It provides a framework for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continuously improving AI governance within organizations. Think of it as ISO 27001, but with AI as the subject rather than information security.

For organizations subject to the EU AI Act, Singapore's AI Verify framework, or any regulator that accepts ISO standards as evidence of conformance, ISO 42001 is becoming the certification path of choice. The standard was built to align with other ISO management system standards (ISO 27001, ISO 9001) — if your organization already has one, the implementation effort for ISO 42001 is substantially lower.

SOC 2 Type II is the most requested security certification in US enterprise software procurement. If your SaaS product touches customer data and you're selling to mid-market or enterprise buyers, you'll eventually get asked for a SOC 2 Type II report. For AI-native products, auditors are increasingly asking about AI-specific controls — not just the usual infrastructure checklist.

The difference between SOC 2 Type I and Type II matters: Type I says your controls are designed correctly as of a point in time. Type II says those controls operated effectively over a period of time (typically 6–12 months). The audit period is everything. An AI agent that behaved correctly in January means nothing if it went rogue in July and you have no logs to show it didn't.

The UAPK qualification funnel has a single framework that triggers for every deployment, regardless of answers: ISO 27001. It's not a coincidence. ISO 27001 is the information security management baseline that every other framework assumes you have in place.

GDPR references ISO 27001 as a baseline security measure. The EU AI Act's technical standards bodies have referenced it. HIPAA's Security Rule was modeled on its structure. SOC 2's Trust Service Criteria map directly to ISO 27001 domains. If you're going to comply with any specialized framework, you need ISO 27001 as the foundation.