Certification
A written attestation by an accredited outside body that your organization's management system (or product) conforms to a published standard, within a defined scope, at a point in time, maintained through periodic surveillance audits. A certification is not a determination of legal compliance and does not bind any regulator.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 2 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Governance: Applied Mastery.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
A third-party certification issued by a CAC-and-SAMR-accredited body attesting that an exporter's cross-border processing meets PIPL's protection standard, given a complete operational framework by the October 2025 Certification Measures (effective 1 January 2026), best suited to high-frequency, intra-group, or platform-wide transfer patterns.
A written attestation by an accredited outside body that your organization's management system (or product) conforms to a published standard, within a defined scope, at a point in time, maintained through periodic surveillance audits. A certification is not a determination of legal compliance and does not bind any regulator.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- Standards versus law: what certification buys you and what it never will · The World's Rulebooks, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.