Certification, Audit, and Integrated Management Systems: ISO/IEC 42006

How a 42001 certificate actually gets made: the accreditation chain from IAF to your auditor, what ISO/IEC 42006:2025 demands of certification bodies, the Stage 1/Stage 2 journey and the three-year cycle, how findings are classified and closed, and how to run one integrated management system across 42001, 27001, 27701, and 9001.

Content current as of 2026-09.

Lessons

1. The trust chain: who checks the checkers
2. ISO/IEC 42006: rules for the bodies that certify you
3. The certification journey: Stage 1, Stage 2, and the three-year cycle
4. Findings, corrective action, and what auditors actually sample
5. One system, four standards: integrating 42001 with 27001, 27701, and 9001