Active

Executive Oversight

The organization shall ensure executive leadership and the board provide active oversight of AI strategy, risk management, and compliance. Executive oversight shall include review of AI strategy, approval of significant AI initiatives, oversight of AI risk management, and monitoring of AI compliance.

Requirement ID
AIG-001-R006
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Requirement Details & Guidance

AIG-001-R006 · AIG-001
Why This Requirement Exists

This requirement exists to provide executive and board oversight of AI strategy, risk, compliance, and significant AI initiatives, ensuring AI systems are governed, secured, assessed, and operated in a controlled and accountable manner.

Implementation Guidance

Establish and document the process to provide executive and board oversight of AI strategy, risk, compliance, and significant AI initiatives. Define accountable roles, scope, required inputs and outputs, assessment or approval criteria, decision thresholds, review frequency, monitoring, reporting, exception handling, evidence requirements, and escalation paths. Apply the process across the AI lifecycle and integrate it with information security, privacy, risk, compliance, change management, incident management, and business governance as applicable.

Practical Application & Audit Readiness

AIG-001-R006 · Field Guidance

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          FRAMEWORK CODE FRAMEWORK NAME & DETAILS FAMILY / CATEGORY VERSION ACTION
          ISO27001 ISO/IEC 27001 ISO/IEC 27001 specifies auditable requirements for... Clause: 5.1 – Leadership and commitment
          ISO
          Standard
          v2022 View →
          SEBI-CSCRF SEBI Cyber Security & Cyber Resilience Framework SEBI’s Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Framewor... Clause: 1.1 GV.OC: Organizational Context; 1.2 GV.RR: Roles, Responsibilities and Authorities; 1.3 GV.PO: Policy; 1.4 GV.OV: Oversight
          India
          Regulation
          vLatest View →
          ISO27002 ISO/IEC 27002 ISO/IEC 27002 is a guidance standard containing a... Clause: 5.4 – Management responsibilities; 8.16 – Monitoring activities
          ISO
          Standard
          v2022 View →
          PCI-DSS PCI DSS PCI DSS is an industry security standard maintaine... Clause: 12.1.4 – Responsibility for information security is
          PCI
          Standard
          v4 View →
          COBIT2019 COBIT COBIT is an enterprise governance and management f... Clause: 4.2 – Align, Plan and Organize (APO) > APO01 – Managed I&T Management Framework > APO01.04 – Define and implement the organizational structures. 4.2 – Align, Plan and Organize (APO) > APO13 – Managed Security > APO13.02 – Define and manage an information security and privacy risk treatment plan.
          COBIT
          Governance Framework
          v2019 View →
          NIST-CSF NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) The NIST Cybersecurity Framework provides high-lev... Clause: GV.OV – Oversight | GV.OV-03 – Organizational cybersecurity risk management performance is evaluated and reviewed for adjustments needed
          NIST
          Framework
          v2 View →
          NIST80053 NIST SP 800-53 NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 presents control families, i... Clause: 3.13 – PROGRAM MANAGEMENT; PM-1 – INFORMATION SECURITY PROGRAM PLAN
          NIST
          Control Catalog
          vRev. 5 View →
          NPCI-ISR NPCI Information Security Requirements NPCI information-security requirements define cont... Clause: Governance Controls; Governance and Oversight Structure – Roles and Responsibilities
          India
          Standard
          vLatest View →
          SOC2 SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria SOC 2 is an independent examination and reporting... Clause: CC1.3 – Control Environment – COSO Principle 3: Management establishes, with board oversight, structures, reporting lines, and appropriate authorities and responsibilities in the pursuit of objectives. CC5.3 – Control Activities – COSO Principle 12: The entity deploys control activities through policies that establish what is expected and in procedures that put policies into action. CC1.2 – Control Environment – COSO Principle 2: The board of directors demonstrates independence from management and exercises oversight of the development and performance of internal control.
          AICPA
          Audit Framework
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          Parent Domain Context

          Governance Domain Baseline
          Domain Name:
          AI Governance & Model Security (AIG)
          Purpose:
          To ensure the trustworthy, secure, and ethical development and deployment of AI.
          Scope:
          Enterprise

          Parent Control Context

          Control Baseline
          Control Name:
          AI Governance & Oversight (AIG-001)
          Summary:
          Establishes AI governance including framework, committee, policies, roles, decision governance, executive oversight, compliance, reporting, review, and continuous improvement for AI systems.
          Business Description:
          Establish and maintain an enterprise governance framework for the responsible development, acquisition, deployment, operation, monitoring, and retirement of Artificial Intelligence systems.