Initial Certification Audit
What is Initial Certification Audit?
The first formal audit conducted by a certification body to determine whether an organization's management system meets standard requirements.
Frameworks that govern initial certification audit
What the standards actually require on initial certification audit
Requirements naming initial certification audit across 2 standards, quoted from the control text.
On top of ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015, 9.3, stage 1 obtains the ISMS design documentation, including what ISO/IEC 27001 requires, and gives the body enough understanding of the ISMS in the client's context, how it assesses and treats risk (and the controls it has cho...
iso-iec-27006-1-2024::9.3.2 · Initial certification audit →The procedure for the initial certification audit: general (A.3.1), the factors that adjust the audit time up or down (A.3.2) and the on-site audit time (A.3.3), with Table A.1 for the calculation.
iso-iec-42006-2025::A.3 · A.3 Procedure for determining audit time for the initial certification audit →Questions people ask about initial certification audit
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