ISO certification course guides for Australia

Use these 35 independent guides to compare ISO and PECB certification pathways before you enrol. Each guide explains what the standard covers, who the course suits, exam formats, credential requirements, realistic Australian costs and how an individual qualification differs from certifying an organisation.

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Compare standards, exams and certification pathways

ISO 27001 — Information Security Management. How ISO 27001 certification works in Australia — the step-by-step process, a realistic 12-week timeline, what the audits cost, and how a personal PECB credential differs from accredited organisational certification.
ISO 9001 — Quality Management Systems. Tender requirements, 10–14 week timeline, audit costs, individual PECB credentials versus accredited organisational certification.
ISO 42001 — AI Management Systems. The new AI governance standard, EU AI Act alignment, real costs.
ISO 22301 — Business Continuity Management. CPS 230 and SOCI Act context, BIA to Stage 2, course tiers, exam format, real AUD costs.
SOC 2 — Trust Services Criteria. Type I vs Type II, AICPA attestation, SOC 2 vs ISO 27001.
Ethical Hacking — Lead Ethical Hacker. Penetration testing, the practical examination, PTES/OSSTMM, real AUD cost.
ISO 27701 — Privacy Information Management. Controller vs Processor, GDPR + Australian Privacy Act mapping.
ISO 31000 — Risk Management. Guidance, not certification — the framework and PECB pathways.
NIST — NIST Cybersecurity Lead Implementer. Design and run a NIST-aligned cybersecurity program across the CSF, SP 800-53, the RMF and SP 800-171.
Incident Response — PECB Certified Incident Responder. Hands-on incident response — ransomware, malware, perimeter threats, persistence, and digital forensics.
Threat Hunting — PECB Certified Cyber Threat Analyst. Hunt threats before they become breaches — threat intelligence, attack frameworks, and a full hunt program.
Linux — Certified Linux Foundations. Hands-on Linux administration and security — the entry step of a cybersecurity career.
ISO 27005 — Information Security Risk Management. The risk engine inside ISO 27001, Risk Manager vs Lead Risk Manager, open-book exams, CPS 234 and SOCI context.
ISO 14001 — Environmental Management Systems. AASB S2 and NGER context, 12–16 week timeline, audit costs, three PECB tiers from $427.
ISO 45001 — Occupational Health & Safety. WHS Act due diligence, industrial manslaughter exposure, audit costs, three PECB course tiers.
ISO 50001 — Energy Management Systems. EnMS build, energy baselines and EnPIs, NGER and NABERS context, exam formats, course tiers from $427.
ISO 37001 — Anti-Bribery Management Systems. Failure-to-prevent offence, adequate procedures defence, NACC scrutiny, three PECB tiers from $571.
ISO 37301 — Compliance Management Systems. Post-Royal-Commission compliance, obligations register, 12–16 week timeline, Lead Implementer vs Lead Auditor.
ISO 22361 — Crisis Management. Crisis vs continuity, the four framework elements, CPS 230 context, the four-domain exam.
PECB CDFE — Digital Forensics. Chain of custody, 5-day lab agenda, Wireshark-Ghidra-YARA tooling, exam domains, $857 cost.
CCSA — Cloud Security Analyst. Shared responsibility, AWS/Azure/GCP labs, Kubernetes hardening, the 3-hour exam, $857 AUD cost.
PECB AI — Artificial Intelligence Certifications. CAIP vs CAIM, AUD pricing, course-specific examination requirements, hands-on labs, and the ISO 42001 pathway.
Career — Becoming an ISO 27001 Lead Implementer. The four PECB credential tiers, the professional experience and ISMS project hours each requires, the exam, and the roles the credential opens in Australia.
Career — Becoming an ISO 27001 Lead Auditor. Auditor credential tiers, how to log the audit hours each one needs, the exam, and the assurance and certification-body roles it leads to.
Career — Becoming an ISO 42001 Lead Implementer. AI governance as a career: credential tiers, experience requirements, and where AI management skills are being hired in Australia.
ISO 31000 — ISO 31000 risk matrix. The 5×5 likelihood and consequence matrix explained: calibrated frequency and threshold scales, rating bands, inherent versus residual, the limits of matrices, and the free template, criteria and register.
Report — Aegentra Australian Cyber Risk Report 2026. Aegentra’s annual analysis built on ASD’s Annual Cyber Threat Report 2025–26: 82,000+ cybercrime reports, cost per report by business size, the top ten attack techniques, reporting sectors, critical infrastructure, and what ASD recommends by organisation size. Updated each October.
ISO 42001 — ISO 42001 Annex A controls. All 38 reference controls across the nine objectives A.2–A.10, what each asks for, the evidence auditors sample, the Statement of Applicability loop and the ISO 27001 overlap. Free CSV.
Career — Becoming an ISO 42001 Lead Auditor. AI assurance as a career: what an AIMS auditor actually assesses, the auditor credential tiers and audit hours each needs, and where the roles are appearing.
Career — Becoming an ISO 27701 Lead Implementer. Privacy as a career: the PECB credential tiers, the 300 hours of PIMS project activity the full credential needs, the applicable examination requirements, and why the 2025 stand-alone revision widened the field.
Career — Becoming an ISO 45001 Lead Auditor. Workplace safety auditing as a career: the PECB credential tiers, the 300 audit hours the full credential needs, the applicable examination requirements, and Australian workplace-safety responsibilities.
Career — How to become an ISO 9001 Lead Auditor. Credential tiers, audit hours, the applicable examination requirements, Australian role context and published course cost.
Career — How to become an ISO 37001 Lead Auditor. Credential tiers, audit hours, the applicable examination requirements, the 2025 transition, Australian role context and published course cost.
Career — Becoming an ISO 14001 Lead Auditor. Environmental auditing as a career: the PECB credential tiers, the 300 audit hours the full credential needs, the applicable examination requirements, and tender prequalification and the distinction between a standard revision and the delivered course edition.
Career — Becoming an ISO 31000 Risk Manager. Enterprise risk as a career: the PECB credential tiers, the 200 project hours the full credential needs, the applicable examination requirements, and Australian risk-governance context.

Where you can enrol

Available Australia-wide, in New Zealand and across Asia Pacific — and, because self-study and eLearning are delivered online through the myPECB platform, from anywhere in the world. Academy training is online only. Where a course offers live online teaching, dates and booking arrangements are confirmed before booking. Base prices are published in AUD, and course pages quote other supported currencies when a live quote is available; to pay in New Zealand dollars or pounds sterling, buy through aegentra.co.nz or aegentra.co.uk instead. An Australian billing address adds 10% GST; a non-Australian billing address has no Australian GST.