Postman Earns ISO 42001 Certification for Responsible AI

You’ve seen enough “AI-powered” marketing copy to last a lifetime. You’ve seen enough security badges cluttering company footers to start wondering if they’re aesthetic choices for the UX team.

So when we say Postman has officially achieved ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification, you’re well within your rights to roll your eyes and ask, “Okay, cool, but does this fix my API tests?”

Here’s the thing: we don’t love the audit process any more than you love debugging a legacy codebase at 3:00 AM, but we did this for a reason. AI is moving fast, and without guardrails, “innovation” is a fancy word for “spontaneous catastrophic failure.” We’re also one of the first companies to earn this certification.

Why we did the boring stuff

ISO 42001:2023 is the world’s first international standard for AI Management Systems (AIMS). It’s not a participation trophy; it’s a framework that forces us to prove, via rigorous independent audits, that our AI isn’t a black box of code we threw together over a weekend.

We focused our efforts on Postman Agent Mode, because that’s where you’re working — generating requests, automating workflows, and interacting with APIs. We wanted to make sure that while you’re off being productive, we’re back here managing the risk so you don’t have to.

What this means for your sanity (and your data)

We’ve formalized our AI Governance Council and implemented the kind of boring, repetitive compliance controls that help developers sleep better at night. Here’s the tl;dr:

• Your enterprise data is not our training ground. We are not using your private data or your Postman Collections to train our models. Your stuff stays your stuff. We aren’t interested in becoming a cautionary tale in a data breach headline.
• Actual governance, not just “good vibes.” Our AI Governance Council reviews our AI systems on a regular cadence. It’s a cross-functional group tasked with stopping the AI from doing anything “creative” that might compromise your security.
• Transparent sub-processors. We check who we work with. Every AI sub-processor is vetted through our vendor management program, because we’re not about to trust our (and your) security to just anyone.
• Policy-driven usage. Every AI interaction in your Workspace is governed by consent and policy frameworks. We’ve mapped the boundaries of what these tools can and cannot do, and we’re sticking to them.

The bottom line

Responsible AI isn’t a marketing checkbox for us; it’s how we’re building the platform. By adhering to ISO 42001, we’re promising that we’ve built the grown-up version of AI for API development.

So go ahead and keep using Postman Agent Mode to build your APIs. The robots are still in charge, but now they’re being watched by a very organized committee of humans with clipboards.

Resources

• ISO/IEC 42001:2023 standard overview
• Postman Trust Center
• Postman security and compliance
• Postman Agent Mode documentation
• Postman privacy policy