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Keyfactor earns ISO 42001 certification for AI governance

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August 18, 2026 by Ivy Delaney

Keyfactor announced it achieved ISO 42001 certification, positioning the company as an early adopter of the international standard for responsible Artificial Intelligence Management Systems, the company says. The certification, awarded following an independent audit by A-LIGN, recognizes Keyfactor’s structured approach to governing the development, deployment, and use of AI technologies.

“With the accelerating adoption of AI, establishing trust is fundamental to our customers and stakeholders,” said Gün Akkor, Chief Product & Technology Officer, Keyfactor. Achieving ISO 42001 supports readiness for regulations like the EU AI Act and demonstrates Keyfactor’s commitment to secure, ethical, and transparent AI operations.

Keyfactor Achieves ISO 42001 Certification for AI Management Systems

Keyfactor’s attainment of ISO 42001 certification positions the company among the earliest adopters of a standardized approach to artificial intelligence governance, a move increasingly vital as AI deployment expands rapidly. This certification validates existing practices and demonstrates a proactive system built to address emerging risks and ensure compliance. Gün Akkor, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Keyfactor, stated that achieving ISO 42001 certification validates the company’s proactive commitment to addressing AI risk management, governance, and compliance, ensuring AI is developed and operated securely, ethically, and transparently across the organization.

Many organizations currently lack defined governance frameworks to manage AI risks, including potential algorithmic bias and transparency limitations, creating significant oversight gaps. Keyfactor addresses this deficiency by integrating its AI Management System directly into existing security and compliance programs, ensuring consistent governance applicable to AI systems and delivering scalable oversight beyond traditional, isolated policy controls.

This integration establishes responsible AI as a core capability, rather than a separate initiative, reflecting Keyfactor’s broader objective to establish trust throughout modern digital infrastructure, according to the company. As organizations extend cryptographic identity and trust to machines and AI, assurance of responsible technology governance becomes paramount, and ISO 42001 certification reinforces that commitment, providing customers with confidence in Keyfactor’s secure, transparent, and accountable AI practices.

With the accelerating adoption of AI, establishing trust is fundamental to our customers and stakeholders.

Gün Akkor, Chief Product & Technology Officer, Keyfactor
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Ivy Delaney has been working with neural networks and machine learning since the mid-nineties, back when a couple of hidden layers and a long afternoon of training counted as ambitious. She has watched the field go from academic curiosity to the thing quietly running underneath everything, and she brings that long view to quantum computing. For Quantum Zeitgeist she covers the ground where the two fields meet. That means quantum machine learning and the variational algorithms it leans on, and it also means the less glamorous but more interesting story of classical machine learning already doing real work inside quantum machines, decoding error-correcting codes, calibrating noisy hardware and learning the error models that simulators depend on. She writes about the hardware those algorithms have to run on too, and about the post-quantum cryptography scramble that the same hardware has set off. Her stories typically start with the paper, whether that is peer-reviewed work, conference proceedings or an arXiv preprint, with the source linked so you can hold a claim up against the research it came from. She is unimpressed by benchmarks that will not say what they beat, and by demonstrations that only work in the press release.

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