During this stage, the audit will focus on sections 4 to 8 of the ISO 27001 standard. The output of this stage will be a stage 1 report along with a list of issues and non-conformities noted. Each issue/non-conformity will be rated as either Major, Minor or an Observation. For stage 1, a Major non-conformity could likely result in a failure of the audit resulting that the audit will not progress to stage 2 until the non-conformity has been fixed. However, if only minor non-conformities were identified, the audit can proceed to stage 2!