OneTrust AI Governance aligns enterprise governance with technical reality, so teams scale AI faster, reduce risk and maintain trust.
AI Governance
Protect the ROI of AI
Translate AI risk into enforceable controls to govern well and move fast.
Accelerate AI delivery
Ship AI faster by removing governance friction with automated, policy-driven controls.
Scale trusted innovation
Confidently scale AI adoption with continuous monitoring and system-level trust.
Protect AI ROI
Continuously prove compliance and responsible use as AI systems evolve in production.
Where are you on the AI governance maturity journey?
Catalog AI and assess risk
Establish a scalable foundation for AI compliance and risk readiness.
Unify AI governance across the business
Centralize AI risk, ownership, and compliance in one program center.
Key capabilities
- Track models, datasets, agents, and vendors in a central inventory
- Assign ownership and lifecycle status
- Understand component dependencies
Operationalize AI risk identification
Standardize AI risk identification using global frameworks.
Key capabilities
- EU AI Act, NIST, ISO 42001 templates
- Automated risk tiering by use case, system or component
- Mapped risk and control frameworks
Automate compliance workflows and reporting
Streamline approvals, attestations, scoping, and audit ready compliance reporting.
Key capabilities
- Configurable intake and approval workflows
- Attestation and signoff tracking
- Automated evidence and audit outputs
Monitor posture across platforms
Contextualize AI telemetry with frameworks and policies to guide action.
Continuously monitor AI models and agents
Capture AI quality, safety, and performance signals in real time.
Key capabilities
- Drift, quality, safety, and performance monitoring
- Telemetry ingestion across AI platforms
- Continuous model and agent observation
Enable contextual risk decisioning
Enrich runtime signals with regulatory and usage context.
Key capabilities
- Correlate signals with regulatory obligations
- Align monitoring to intended purpose
- Prioritize risk using data sensitivity
Detect AI policy violations
Centralize AI risk, ownership, and compliance in one program center.
Key capabilities
- Detect and log AI policy violations in real-time
- Identify PII and sensitive attributes
- Surface risks before incidents occur
Programmatically enforce controls
Apply policy-driven guardrails consistently across AI workflows.
Apply runtime guardrails
Enforce safe and compliant AI behavior across AI platforms.
Key capabilities
- Prompt and output filtering
- Block or allow actions by policy
- Constrain unsafe production behavior
View the OneTrust control plane in action, with live observability and policy enforcement for AI workloads on AWS Bedrock.
Apply data and pipeline policies
Define and natively enforce controls across data, models, and agents.
Key capabilities
- Sensitive data masking and redaction
- Required evalutations prior to promotion to production
- Runtime guardrails to block unsafe or noncompliant responses
- Re-reviews whenever a model, agent, dataset, or usage pattern materially changes
Govern agents and MCP environments
Embed policy contracts across agents and MCP environments.
Key capabilities
- Agent registration with defined purpose
- Enforced permissions and allowed actions
- MCP policy enforcement with audit logs
Proven results
“With OneTrust, our AI governance council has a technology-driven process to review projects, assess data needs, and uphold compliance. The customizable workflows, integrations with other platforms we utilize, and alignment with NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework have accelerated our approvals and helped embed oversight at every phase of the AI lifecycle."
- Ren Nunes, Senior Manager, Data & AI Governance, Blackbaud
“OneTrust AI Governance helps enable automation across the AI lifecycle, enhanced transparency, and control necessary for organizations to confidently operationalize Trusted AI at scale. It serves as a powerful foundation for building AI programs that are resilient, responsible, and future-ready. Working closely with OneTrust, we have integrated these capabilities with the KPMG Trusted AI intake, inventory, rules logic, and control catalogs, to provide a comprehensive technology-enabled AI governance solution that allows us to support organizations in scaling their governance programs across the AI lifecycle.”
- Bryan McGowan, Global and US Trusted AI Leader, KPMG
Partnering with the best
Our AI Governance service partners and seamless technology partner integrations make it even easier for you to accelerate responsible AI adoption.
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Setting the standard for responsible AI innovation
We hold ourselves to the highest standards of responsible and trustworthy AI development.
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FAQ
AI governance refers to the policies, processes, and tools that ensure AI systems are developed, deployed, and monitored responsibly. It helps enterprises innovate while managing risk, complying with regulations like the EU AI Act, and maintaining trust with customers and regulators.
OneTrust helps organizations embed governance by default across the AI lifecycle, enabling real-time control, continuous oversight, and responsible innovation at scale.
Compliance requires classifying AI systems by risk level, performing impact assessments, maintaining documentation, and continuously monitoring AI use. OneTrust automate this with out-of-the-box assessments, regulatory updates, and policy enforcement to meet evolving requirements.
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Key components include: AI use case intake and approval workflows, a unified asset inventory, lifecycle checkpoints, centralized policy enforcement, and real-time monitoring of risk and model performance.
OneTrust delivers all of these through a single platform, transforming governance from manual oversight into intelligent, scalable orchestration.
Enterprises often face slowdowns due to manual checkpoints, siloed processes, and unclear ownership. Automating governance tasks and standardizing risk evaluations allow technical and compliance teams to collaborate more efficiently. OneTrust enables pre-cleared governance patterns, reusable workflows, and federated policy management so teams can move faster without sacrificing trust or compliance.
AI governance platforms help identify and manage risk across the AI lifecycle by tracking performance, surfacing risk signals, and detecting potential sources of bias. They automate key documentation — like model cards, bills of materials, and lineage reports — and provide transparency into how AI systems are built, trained, and deployed. These capabilities are critical for supporting audits, addressing ethical concerns, and demonstrating responsible AI to stakeholders.
OneTrust enables organizations to monitor AI risk in real time, reduce model bias through continuous oversight, and generate audit-ready documentation.