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ISO 42001 Overview for Business Leaders

Everything Your Company Needs to Understand the Implementation and Certification Process

Overview

As generative and agentic AI move from novelty to board-level concern, executives must ask: How do we govern, audit and scale AI safely?

This whitepaper presents a concise executive guide to ISO 42001, the emerging global standard for AI management systems, from implementation to certification. This detailed overview outlines each step in how your organization can turn compliance into a competitive advantage.

What You’ll Learn:

  • The business drivers for ISO 42001 and what that means for business leaders in 2025.
  • How to align AI governance, risk and controls across your enterprise.
  • A complete overview of ISO 42001, including a detailed look at each step in the implementation and certification processes.

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Meet the Author

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Christian Hyatt

CEO & CO-FOUNDER OF RISK3SIXTY

Christian is the CEO and Co-founder of risk3sixty. He is responsible for setting the vision for the team, ensuring the leadership team is “rowing in the same direction,” creating purpose and alignment across the firm, and nurturing company culture.

With experience overseeing over 2000 cybersecurity engagements, Christian is one of the most experienced experts in the nation. Christian is a best selling author of the critically acclaimed cybersecurity leadership book “Security Team Operating System“. Under Christian’s leadership, risk3sixty has been named 3-time Consulting Magazine’s Best Firms to Work For, 7-time Atlanta’s Fastest Growing companies, 7-time Atlanta’s Best Places to Work, 3-time HireVets Platinum Honoree, and was named Top 100 CEOs in Atlanta.

Christian has an M.B.A. from Georgia Tech and a B.B.A. from the University of Georgia. Christian is a Georgia Tech Technology and Management (T&M) corporate partner and Advisory Board Member for UGA’s Management Information System Advisory Board.

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Sawyer Miller

Chief Product Officer

Sawyer Miller is the Chief Product Officer at risk3sixty. He is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

He has been a major part of the growth of risk3sixty by initially leading the ISO 27001 service line and being the go-to thought leader for ISO for the company. Sawyer then led the Advisory and Assurance practice and now serves as the Chief Product Officer overseeing go-to-market strategies, priority services, marketing, engineering and more.

Sawyer is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Certified Information Systems Auditor® (CISA).

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Positive Business Outcomes

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See how Platform.sh saved 75% by harmonizing SOC 2, PCI DSS, and HIPAA.

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Joey Stanford
VP of Security & Privacy
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Salesloft obtained certification across SOC 2 and ISO 27001 in one harmonized workstream.


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Fullstory harmonized 10 frameworks and becomes ISO 42001 early adopter


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Director of GRC
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