PECB-accredited certification delivered by reconn, an AI-first cybersecurity company. Taught by practitioners with 20+ years in cybersecurity, 10+ years in enterprise AI, and hands-on ISO 42001 implementation inside live organizations. Self-paced for working professionals, interest-free installments, and live corporate cohorts across the Kingdom.
Prefer to spread it out? SAR 845 per month for 4 months with Tabby or Tamara, arranged over email or WhatsApp. Terms and conditions apply.
ISO/IEC 42001:2023 is the international standard for an Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS), and the only AI management standard an accredited certification body can certify an organization against. It is, in practice, the AI equivalent of ISO 27001 for information security.
In Saudi Arabia, AI governance arrives through several channels at once: the National Strategy for Data and AI, SDAIA's AI ethics principles, the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL), SAMA requirements in financial services, SFDA rules in healthcare, and NCA cybersecurity controls. ISO 42001 is the management system that operationalizes all of them under one auditable structure.
This page covers PECB-accredited certification training from reconn, an AI-first cybersecurity company and PECB Training Partner, across three paths: Lead Auditor (plan and conduct audits of an AIMS), Lead Implementer (design, build and operate an AIMS), and the bundle covering the full AIMS lifecycle. Single certifications are $899 USD all-inclusive and the bundle is $1,699 USD. Every package includes 2 exam attempts, and all three are available self-paced, on interest-free installments via Tamara or Tabby, or as a live corporate cohort.
Certification Paths
Same standard, same exam body, different job to be done. Pick by the role you will hold once the AIMS is live, not by the certificate name.
Plan, conduct and manage independent audits of an AI management system using ISO/IEC 42001 and ISO 19011 methodology. Built for internal audit, assurance, and third-party assessment roles.
Both certifications together. Design and run the AIMS, then audit it independently. Most governance professionals end up needing both sides, and the bundle saves $99 against buying them separately.
Design, build, implement and maintain an AI management system. Translates ISO 42001 into practical governance, risk treatment and control design inside your own organization.
Included In Every Package
Not sure which one to take? Take Lead Implementer if you will build or run the AIMS. Take Lead Auditor if you assess it, whether internally, for a certification body, or across your suppliers. If both are on your horizon, the bundle is the cheaper route. Ask us on a thirty-minute call if you want a straight answer for your role.
Delivery Formats
Three delivery formats, all carrying the same accredited course and the same PECB exam. The difference is how you pay for it and who you sit it with. The fourth is what happens after the certificate.
Fully online through the official MyPECB platform. 400+ pages of courseware, recorded lectures, interactive quizzes and case studies, 2 exam vouchers, 31 CPD credits, one free one-hour live session with the trainer, unlimited WhatsApp and email support, and the first year's PECB Annual Maintenance Fee. Access opens the same day you buy.
The same $899 eLearning course, split into four interest-free monthly payments of approximately SAR 845 through Tabby or Tamara. It is not available at online checkout. Email hello@reconn.io or WhatsApp +971 58 572 6270 with your preferred provider and we will set it up. Course access is granted on confirmation, not after the final payment clears. Terms and conditions apply.
Set up a planReal-time, instructor-led sessions for a private team cohort. Run it in Saudi evenings so daytime operations keep moving, or on whatever schedule suits your people. Best for teams of five or more who want structure and direct trainer interaction. Includes official certification and SAP Ariba compatible invoicing for government and enterprise procurement.
Request a quoteCertification proves competence. Standing up a certifiable AIMS is a separate piece of work. The same team runs ISO 42001 gap assessments, control design and audit readiness for clients across Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East, so training and implementation do not come from two different playbooks.
Talk it throughPayment Options
If paying in one go does not suit your budget or your approval cycle, the course is available on an interest-free installment plan through Tabby or Tamara, the two buy-now-pay-later providers most widely used in the Kingdom.
How To Set It Up
Email hello@reconn.io or WhatsApp +971 58 572 6270. Tell us which certification you want and whether you prefer Tabby or Tamara.
We set the installment plan up with your chosen provider and send you the payment link directly. Approval sits with Tabby or Tamara, not with us.
Course access opens the same day the plan is confirmed. You do not wait until the fourth payment clears to begin studying.
Buying for a team or through a procurement department? Installments are for individual learners. Corporate cohorts are invoiced directly, ZATCA-compliant and SAP Ariba compatible.
Installments are not available at online checkout. The plan is arranged manually, so you must contact us to use it. Email hello@reconn.io or WhatsApp +971 58 572 6270 and we will take it from there. Terms and conditions apply.
What's Covered
Both courses run four days of instruction building toward the official exam on day five, PECB's standard structure. Self-paced means you set the calendar, not that the syllabus shrinks.
Design, build and operate the AIMS.
Plan, conduct and lead audits of the AIMS.
PECB grades both credentials by experience as well as exam performance. Everyone sits the same exam; the title awarded (Provisional, standard, Lead or Senior Lead) depends on the professional and project experience you submit alongside it, per PECB's certification policies.
The Saudi Context
Saudi Arabia regulates AI through several instruments rather than one comprehensive AI act. Each sits at a different level of governance, and an AIMS is what ties them together.
Policy direction for AI adoption across government, healthcare, finance and education, and the reason AI governance questions now appear in RFPs rather than only in policy documents.
Non-binding guidance on responsible and ethical AI, actively referenced in government procurement and enterprise vendor assessments. Non-binding does not mean optional when you are bidding.
A binding data protection statute governing how personal data is processed, including inside AI systems. Training data, model inputs and automated decisions all fall within reach.
Financial services, healthcare and cybersecurity each carry their own AI-adjacent obligations. An AIMS gives you one control set to answer three regulators instead of three parallel compliance efforts.
ISO 42001 does not replace any of these. It gives you the management system that makes them demonstrable: a defined scope, an AI risk assessment, a Statement of Applicability, monitored controls, internal audit and management review. That is what an auditor, a regulator and a procurement team all ask to see.
Trainer Comparison
Most ISO 42001 trainers deliver the PECB curriculum without ever having built an AIMS. The team teaching your course here is the team implementing and auditing these systems for clients, this week.
| Dimension | reconn | Typical training provider |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioner status | Active AIMS builder. Designs, implements and audits ISO 42001 systems for clients in production. | Teaches the standard from slides. Rarely implements a full AIMS end to end. |
| Implementation track record | Personally designed and deployed AI and information security management systems across banking, healthcare, government and technology. | Theoretical grounding, with case studies drawn from the training material. |
| AI security and risk depth | Hands-on offensive and defensive work on ML systems, LLM risk and agentic AI, not GRC theory alone. | Covers NIST AI RMF and governance frameworks. Limited practical attack and defense experience. |
| Exam scenarios | Taught from implementation problems met in live organizations, so scenario questions map to contexts you will recognize. | Uses PECB sample scenarios, which may not reflect real implementation complexity. |
| Trainer access | Direct email and WhatsApp access to the founder and lead trainer. No support queue, no coordinators. | Support routed through coordinators, with trainer access limited to scheduled office hours. |
| Saudi regulatory context | Maps ISO 42001 to SDAIA, PDPL, SAMA, SFDA, NCA and the National Strategy for Data and AI in depth. | Generic governance framing. Saudi-specific coverage varies by provider. |
| ZATCA and procurement | ZATCA-registered non-resident VAT provider, with SAP Ariba compatible invoicing for government procurement. | No direct Saudi procurement integration. Manual invoice handling and waivers. |
| Credentials | PECB Certified Trainer, CAIP (Certified AI Implementer Professional), ISO/IEC 42001 Senior Lead Implementer. Verifiable on the PECB registry and Credly. | PECB trainer status held. AI-specific credentials vary widely. |
The exam and the credential are identical whoever trains you. What changes is whether you leave the course able to build the thing, or only able to describe it.
Who Delivers This
reconn is an AI-first cybersecurity company based in Dubai, UAE, founded and led by Shenoy Sandeep, and officially recognized as a PECB Training Partner. Every session is delivered by people with hardcore cybersecurity backgrounds on both the offensive and defensive side, and hands-on experience implementing ISO 42001, ISO 27001, ISO 27701 and ISO 22301 inside live organizations.
Before founding reconn, Shenoy led the Middle East, Turkey and Africa region for Cyble, a YC-backed threat intelligence platform that scaled through Series B, building the regional distribution and go-to-market function from zero and supporting 25+ technology vendors across MEA. That means both sides of the table are familiar: the vendor selling AI governance, and the buyer being asked to prove it.
The same team that delivers your training implements ISO 42001 AIMS for clients across Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East. What you learn reflects what actually gets built, not only what the standard says on paper.
Credentials
For Learning & Development Teams
Government agencies and enterprises across the Kingdom appoint reconn as their ISO 42001 training partner for one reason: the team actually implements the standard it teaches.
The curriculum is carried by real ISO 42001 work in banking, healthcare and government. When your team hits a governance question in your own AIMS, it is usually a question the trainer has already solved somewhere else.
Questions go to Shenoy Sandeep, founder and PECB Certified Trainer, over email and WhatsApp. No support queue, no coordinator, no "someone will get back to you." That access continues after the course ends.
SDAIA, PDPL, SAMA, SFDA and NCA are mapped explicitly against ISO 42001 clauses and Annex A controls. Your team does not need a separate compliance layer bolted on afterward.
ZATCA-registered non-resident VAT provider. Invoices generate as compliant documents and SAP Ariba is supported, so procurement ticks the box instead of raising a manual waiver. Your team enrolls, certifies and starts implementing while other providers are still negotiating paperwork.
Open a Channel
We establish which AI systems you actually have in scope, where your exposure sits across Saudi Arabia's regulatory framework (SDAIA, PDPL, SAMA, SFDA, NCA), and whether ISO 42001 certification is genuinely worth pursuing for your organization right now. If the honest answer is "not yet", you will hear that.
You speak to the person who would do the work.
Questions
No. ISO/IEC 42001 is a voluntary international standard. In practice it has become the way Saudi organizations, public and private, demonstrate AI governance maturity to boards, regulators (SDAIA, SAMA, SFDA, NCA), procurement teams and enterprise customers. Because it is the only AI management standard an accredited certification body can certify you against, it carries more weight than a framework or a guidance document.
Four to six weeks to earn your personal PECB certification with consistent study alongside a full-time job. Organizational certification is a different timeline: certifying your whole AIMS through an accredited certification body audit typically runs 3 to 12 months from gap assessment to final audit, depending on the AI systems in scope, organizational complexity, and whether you already run a certified management system such as ISO 27001.
Approximately SAR 3,375 for a single certification and SAR 6,375 for the bundle at current USD/SAR rates. The exact SAR amount is calculated at checkout based on your location and payment method. All invoices are ZATCA-compliant and include the relevant Saudi VAT treatment.
Yes. An interest-free installment plan is available at SAR 845 per month for 4 months through Tabby or Tamara. It is not offered at online checkout, so to set it up email hello@reconn.io or WhatsApp +971 58 572 6270 with your contact details and preferred provider. Course access is granted on confirmation, not after the last payment clears. Terms and conditions apply.
Two exam vouchers are included in the course price, both to be used within 12 months of enrollment. If you do not pass on the first attempt, the second costs nothing extra, and you get unlimited email and WhatsApp support in between to work out where the gaps are.
Yes. The exam is fully online and proctored, taken from home, the office, or anywhere with a reliable connection. No test center visit is required. You schedule the slot yourself through the official PECB Exam Portal.
Yes. reconn is ZATCA-registered as a non-resident VAT provider for Saudi Arabia. All invoices comply with ZATCA requirements, and SAP Ariba is supported for Saudi government agencies and enterprise procurement teams.
Lead Implementer if you will build or run the AIMS inside your organization. Lead Auditor if you sit in internal audit or assurance, work for a certification body, or assess AI systems belonging to suppliers. If both are in your future, the bundle costs less than buying the two separately.
Yes. Live instructor-led online cohorts run for private corporate teams, commonly 7 to 10 PM KSA so daytime operations are not disrupted, or on a custom schedule. Pricing is quoted per cohort based on group size, and invoicing works through SAP Ariba where you need it. Request a quote.
Personal certification is what this page sells: you sit the PECB exam and hold the credential. Organizational certification is when an accredited certification body audits your AIMS and certifies the organization against ISO/IEC 42001. You generally need certified people first, then the system. The same team supports both.
