Strategy · Filed · Singapore · 9 min read

AI Governance: Building a Framework Before Regulators Force You To

How to stand up an AI governance program aligned to NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 — model inventory, evaluation, red-teaming, and human oversight.

By Cyber Inspect Editorial Board

Two references worth reading

NIST AI Risk Management Framework 1.0 organizes AI risk into Govern, Map, Measure, Manage. ISO/IEC 42001 is the certifiable AI Management System standard. Adopt both — NIST for methodology, ISO 42001 for certification.

The operating substrate

Every serious AI governance program builds four registers: a model inventory, a training-data lineage record, an evaluation and red-team log, and a human-oversight map. Without those four, downstream controls have nothing to attach to.