ISO & AI Security Audits. Certification that means something.
A certificate on the wall is only worth the rigor behind it. We get you ready for ISO 27001, SOC 2, ISO 42001, and more, building controls that actually work, so you pass the audit and earn the trust the badge is supposed to signal.
Most certification pain comes from treating the audit as a paperwork exercise the week before the assessor arrives. A control that exists only on paper fails the moment anyone looks closely.
We approach certification as building real security that happens to satisfy the standard, not the other way around. We assess where you stand, close the gaps with controls that work in practice, assemble the evidence, and walk with you through the assessment. The result is a certification you can defend and a security posture that is genuinely stronger.
From gap to certificate
A clear, staged route to certification, with the heavy lifting done as real security work rather than a last-minute scramble.
Scope & gap assessment
Define what the certification covers and measure your current state against the standard.
Close the gaps
Build and implement the controls that are missing, as working security, not documents.
Evidence & documentation
Assemble the policies, records, and proof the assessor will ask for.
Internal audit
A dry run against the standard, so the real assessment holds no surprises.
Certification & beyond
Support through the assessment, then maintain the controls for the next cycle.
Audit season, abolished
Certification fails as a yearly sprint and works as a calendar. Here is what a certified year actually looks like when the program runs continuously.
The standards that matter
From the established security standards to the new AI ones, we cover what your customers, Board, and regulators ask for.
Where audits sit in VIGILE
Validate the controls, Enhance the program
Audits are the Validate and Enhance motions of VIGILE. We prove the controls meet the standard, and the readiness work raises the security floor for good, well past the assessment day.
See EU AI Act & ISO 42001 ›Top 10 questions, frequently asked
We get you ready and walk with you through the assessment. The actual certificate is issued by an accredited certification body, which must be independent. We do everything up to and around that: the gap assessment, the controls, the evidence, the internal audit, and support during the external assessment. Keeping those separate is what makes the certificate credible.
It depends on where you start and which standard. A team with mature controls might be ready in a few months; one starting from little may take longer to build the foundations. We give you a realistic timeline after the gap assessment, and we sequence the work so the highest-impact and longest-lead items start first.
Yes, and it is often efficient to. The standards share a lot of underlying controls, so building once and mapping to both avoids duplicated effort. We design the program around the full set of certifications you need, rather than running each as a separate project.
That is increasingly the question. ISO 42001 is the new management system standard for AI, and NIST AI RMF provides the practical risk framework. We prepare you for both, and the work connects directly to our EU AI Act readiness, so your AI compliance is one coherent program rather than scattered efforts.
Gap assessment against the standard, an ISMS scoped to your business, controls implemented with owners, internal audit, and management review, so the certification audit is a formality rather than a discovery.
No. The work runs remotely with scheduled working sessions. On-site time is reserved for audits and workshops where being in the room genuinely helps.
A few hours a week from named control owners during the program, concentrated around evidence collection and internal audit. The program is designed around your team's calendar, not the other way around.
Surveillance audits run annually and the ISMS has to stay alive between them. Continuous evidence collection keeps the system current, so each surveillance audit starts from proof rather than a scramble.
Fixed scope for the readiness program based on company size and standard count, with managed ISMS operation as an optional retainer afterward.
Validate runs the gap assessment, Guard and Implement put the controls and evidence pipeline in place, and Enhance keeps the ISMS maturing between audits.
Related work
Earn the badge, and the trust
Book a session with a Principal Engineer. We assess where you stand and map the path to certification.