Enterprise AI Governance

A practical reference library for governing enterprise AI and agentic systems — the major regimes (EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, NIST AI RMF) and a hands-on agentic-AI governance checklist, each with scope, key requirements, implementable controls, a checklist and common pitfalls. Built for people and AI agents.

Regulation

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EU AI Act

The EU AI Act is the European Union's comprehensive, risk-based law for artificial intelligence. It sorts AI systems into risk tiers — unacceptable (banned), high-risk (strict obligations), limited-risk (transparency duties) and minimal-risk — and adds specific obligations for general-purpose AI models. It applies extraterritorially to anyone placing AI on the EU market and phases in over several years, with penalties reaching up to 7% of global annual turnover for the most serious breaches.

Standard

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ISO/IEC 42001

ISO/IEC 42001:2023 is the first international, certifiable standard for an AI management system (AIMS). Like ISO 27001 for information security, it defines how an organization should establish, implement, maintain and continually improve the way it governs AI — through a policy, defined roles, risk and impact assessments, a set of controls, and a Plan-Do-Check-Act improvement cycle. It is voluntary and certifiable, giving organizations a recognized way to demonstrate responsible AI management.

Framework

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NIST AI Risk Management Framework

The NIST AI RMF 1.0 is a voluntary, widely-adopted framework for managing AI risk across the lifecycle. It is organized around four functions — Govern, Map, Measure and Manage — and a set of characteristics of trustworthy AI (valid and reliable, safe, secure and resilient, accountable and transparent, explainable, privacy-enhanced, and fair with harmful bias managed). A companion Generative AI Profile adapts it to GenAI risks. Unlike the EU AI Act it is not law, but it is a common backbone for operational AI governance.

Playbook

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Agentic AI Governance Checklist

A practical, vendor-neutral checklist for governing agentic AI in the enterprise — translating the principles of the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF into concrete controls you can implement in a harness. It covers human oversight, guardrails, audit logging, evaluation, access control, prompt-injection defence and incident response, and maps each control to the patterns and knowledge units that operationalize it. Use it as a readiness gate before letting an agent act in production.