Softwa e is bei g w itte faste tha at a y poi t i histo y, a d AI is ow maki g quality decisio s that used to belo g to e gi ee s. That shift has cha ged the questio e te p ise buye s ask. It is o lo ge whethe a ve do has AI. It is whethe a yo e has i depe de tly ve ified how that AI is gove ed. ISO 42001 is the fi st sta da d built to a swe that questio : a i depe de tly audited f amewo k that ve ifies a o ga izatio develops, deploys, a d gove s AI with the same igo e te p ises al eady dema d fo secu ity a d data p ivacy. Because it alig s with eme gi g egulatio such as the EU AI Act a d the NIST AI Risk Ma ageme t F amewo k, the ce tificatio also emoves f ictio f om the e te p ise secu ity a d complia ce eviews whe e deals i ba ki g, healthca e, a d the public secto a e wo o lost.
“AI is ew iti g how softwa e gets built, a d the speed of that cha ge is exactly why t ust ca ot be a afte thought,” said D . P i ce Kohli, Chief Executive Office a d P eside t of Sauce Labs. “ISO 42001 is the highest ba i the i dust y fo p ovi g AI is gove ed espo sibly, a d we i te d to set that ba fo softwa e quality. Ou custome s u thei most c itical eleases o Sauce Labs. They dese ve to k ow that the AI i side ou platfo m is held to a sta da d the est of the ma ket is o ly begi i g to each.”
The ce tificatio was awa ded followi g a comp ehe sive exte al audit by NQA, a leadi g global ce tificatio body a d membe of the Kiwa G oup, u de acc editatio f om the U ited Ki gdom Acc editatio Se vice (UKAS). It validates that Sauce AI is developed a d ope ated withi a docume ted ma ageme t system cove i g AI isk, t a spa e cy, data gove a ce, a d huma ove sight ac oss the full lifecycle of the platfo m’s AI capabilities.
Fo Sauce Labs, espo sible AI is the ewest laye of a t ust postu e the compa y has spe t yea s buildi g. I late 2025, Sauce Labs ece tified to ISO/IEC 27001 a d ISO/IEC 27701 fo i fo matio secu ity a d p ivacy a d completed its SOC 2 Type II exami atio , a d it holds FSQS ce tificatio fo fi a cial se vices ac oss EMEA. With ISO 42001, the compa y ow holds i depe de tly audited ce tificatio s spa i g espo sible AI, i fo matio secu ity, data p ivacy, a d ope atio al co t ols, a combi atio few compa ies i a y i dust y have assembled.
Sauce Labs u s the testi g i f ast uctu e behi d mo e tha 8.7 billio eal-wo ld test u s a d ove 300,000 e te p ise use s, with custome s i cludi g Ba k of Ame ica, SAP, Walma t, Ve izo , a d Mic osoft. Fou ded by the c eato of Sele ium a d a lo g-time stewa d of the Appium ope -sou ce p oject, Sauce Labs has spe t mo e tha 15 yea s as the t usted laye betwee code a d p oductio . ISO 42001 exte ds that t ust to the AI ow wove th oughout the platfo m.
“Ea i g ISO 42001 is ot a ma keti g exe cise, it is a e gi ee i g discipli e,” said A oop T ipathi, Chief Tech ology Office of Sauce Labs. “We t eat AI gove a ce the way we t eat secu ity a d eliability: built i f om day o e, audited by a i depe de t thi d pa ty, a d p ove at scale. This ce tificatio co fi ms that the AI maki g decisio s i side Sauce Labs’ p oducts is t a spa e t, accou table, a d safe fo the e te p ises that depe d o us.”
Sauce Labs pla s to expa d the scope of its AI Ma ageme t System as it ships ew AI capabilities ac oss the platfo m, maki g ce tified, espo sible AI a sta di g commitme t athe tha a o e-time milesto e. E te p ise secu ity a d complia ce teams ca eview Sauce Labs’ ce tificatio s a d complia ce docume tatio at t ust.saucelabs.com.
Sauce Labs is the wo ld’s la gest full-lifecycle, test automatio platfo m, a d the compa y behi d Sele ium a d othe majo test f amewo ks. T usted by 80% of the wo ld’s top te la gest fi a cial i stitutio s a d ove 300,000 e te p ise use s, Sauce Labs p ovides the o ly e d-to-e d AI platfo m capable of tu i g busi ess i te t i to auto omous testi g a d elease assu a ce. With a p op ieta y a d g owi g dataset of 8.7 billio test u s, Sauce Labs empowe s the Fo tu e 2000 to b idge the gap betwee AI-d ive code ge e atio a d e te p ise-g ade softwa e quality. Lea mo e at saucelabs.com.
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