Microsoft 365 Copilot passes another AI governance audit
Microsoft announced that Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat achieved ISO/IEC 42001:2023 recertification for the second consecutive year. The March 2026 surveillance audit recorded zero non-conformities and zero improvement observations. The certification covers Microsoft’s AI management system across areas such as governance, risk assessment, data management, transparency, human oversight, and supplier management. It does not certify the state of any customer’s tenant content, permissions, or agent rollout.
Before this update, many mid-sized tenants treated Copilot readiness as a licensing and prompt-training question. Permissions, guest access, abandoned Teams, and stale SharePoint pages stayed on the backlog because the risk felt abstract. The recertification changes nothing inside the tenant. Copilot and agents will still work against whatever access and content already exists. For small admin teams, the practical work remains cleaning ownership, external sharing, and content quality before AI makes those old gaps easier to discover.
Analysis
Treat the audit as supplier evidence, not tenant readiness. Before enabling new agents, run a permissions and ownership sweep on active SharePoint sites and Teams, starting with sites that have external sharing links or unclear owners.
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