Secure & Responsible Technology
Secure & Responsible Technology
ARISE Framework® · Assurance of Responsible, Innovative, and Secure Environments
ARISE Framework® is the Governance Operating System: one control structure that an organization runs its AI, cybersecurity, privacy and ethics governance on. Implement it once. Map every law and standard to it. Give the board a common operating picture.
Most organizations do not have a governance capability problem. They have a coordination problem. Security, privacy, legal and data science each run their own program against their own framework, and the risk sits in the gaps between them.
A SOC 2 trail, an ISO 42001 document set, a privacy program and an AI committee each tell leadership something different, and none of them tell it the whole thing. ARISE Framework® is the Governance Operating System under all four. It replaces four partial views with one common operating picture, and it makes VALIDATE part of the system rather than an afterthought.
“There can be no responsible technology without secure technology.”
— Foundational Principle of ARISE™
The ARISE Framework® is a Governance Operating System: one control structure that an organization runs its AI, cybersecurity, privacy and ethics governance on. Published by Assessed Intelligence, it provides 128 controls and 953 requirements across seven domains and maps outward to 40 published laws and standards, including the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, ISO/IEC 27001, NIST AI RMF and NIST SP 800-53.
ARISE™ closes the gaps structurally. A control that serves two domains is written once and governed once. Each new law becomes a delta against the existing control set rather than a new project. The result is a common operating picture: one evidence base and one status view that the board, the CISO, the privacy officer, legal and data science all read the same way.
Across seven domains, GOVERN through VALIDATE
Prioritized requirements, each with a permanent, citable ID
One control written once serves AI, cyber, privacy and ethics
ISO, NIST, EU AI Act, HIPAA, PCI DSS, state AI laws and more
prEN 18xxx drafts for the EU AI Act, each crosswalked to all 128 controls
Foundational (337), Operational (452), and Advanced (164) requirements
Each domain governs a defined scope toward a defined outcome. A control written in one domain serves AI, cybersecurity, privacy and ethics at once, so the seven together form a single assurance cycle rather than four parallel ones.
Accountability, policy, risk appetite, the privacy program, legal and regulatory obligations, third-party governance.
Lifecycle and change control, AI risk, workforce, oversight committees, third-party risk, privacy operations.
Asset and AI system inventory, data mapping, supply chain, risk classification and thresholds.
Identity and access, data, model, network and endpoint security, cryptography, resilience.
Continuous monitoring, anomaly and drift detection, assessments, third-party monitoring.
Incident response for cyber, AI and privacy events, communications, lessons learned.
Testing, evaluation, internal and external audit, independent assurance, continuous improvement.
Every one of the 953 requirements carries a priority tier, which gives an organization a defensible sequence for implementing the operating system. Start with the foundation, then build depth.
P1
Foundational
P2
Operational
P3
Advanced
The ground-floor requirements every organization must establish first — the structures, policies, inventories, and safeguards that must be in place before operational or advanced controls can be meaningful.
The active, ongoing requirements that keep governance working across live environments — driving continuous monitoring, risk management workflows, oversight cadences, and vendor management activities day to day.
The high-maturity requirements that distinguish programs capable of demonstrating assurance under independent scrutiny — deeper testing, cross-domain correlation, and the evidentiary posture needed by regulators and auditors.
Each of the 953 requirements is assigned a priority tier so every organization, regardless of starting maturity, has a clear and defensible path to continuous assurance.
The strongest organizations do not wait until regulation or an incident forces governance onto the roadmap. They build it into operations as technology adoption grows.
An organization needed to move beyond fragmented oversight and establish a repeatable governance model for AI, cybersecurity, and emerging technology across critical business functions.
Assessed Intelligence implements, operates and validates ARISE Framework®, the Governance Operating System, for organizations that want help. Adoption does not require an engagement: the framework, its requirements and all 40 crosswalks are maintained in a public repository under the ARISE™ Public Use License (Non-Commercial).
ARISE™ is built for organizations that answer to more than one regulator or assessor at once: healthcare systems under HIPAA and state AI laws, defense contractors under CMMC, financial firms with model risk obligations, and any organization deploying AI agents under the EU AI Act, the Colorado AI Act or Texas TRAIGA.
Organizations working with Assessed Intelligence will demonstrate governance to regulators and auditors, expand technology use cases with oversight in place, and give boards the evidence they need to maintain confidence.
Satisfy regulators and auditors with structured, documented evidence of governance
Scale AI and technology adoption with controls that keep pace with operational complexity
Give leadership one common operating picture of risk, controls, and assurance posture
Build accountability across AI, cybersecurity, and ethics before it becomes a gap
Produce audit-ready evidence without burdening technology or operations teams
Move faster with the confidence that comes from knowing foundations are sound
Assessed Intelligence delivers the Governance Operating System through three service pathways, each designed for a different stage of your governance program.
Implement
We help organizations establish the structures, policies, controls, and lifecycle processes needed to govern AI and emerging technology responsibly.
Operate
Every OPERATE engagement runs on ARISE Framework®, the Governance Operating System. Your fractional vCISO or vCRAIO inherits a working control set and a common operating picture on day one rather than building both from scratch.
Validate
Independent audits and attestation to confirm the effectiveness of controls, governance mechanisms, and your compliance posture.
Most governance programs fail on coordination, not capability. ARISE™ fixes the coordination structurally.
AI, cybersecurity, privacy and ethics run on the same controls, the same owners and the same evidence, instead of four parallel programs with four vocabularies.
Standards and statutes map to ARISE™, not the other way around. Each new law becomes a delta against the existing control set rather than a new project.
A single control and its evidence can satisfy an EU AI Act conformity reviewer, a HIPAA risk analysis and a CMMC assessor.
Incident response for AI, cyber and privacy is R.IR-01, R.IR-02 and R.IR-03 in one RESPOND domain, owned by one function, not three playbooks in three teams.
The VALIDATE domain makes testing and independent assurance part of the system rather than an afterthought.
Leadership works from one view of governance status, so a finding in one domain is visible to every other domain at once.
ARISE Framework® is the Governance Operating System for AI, cybersecurity, privacy and ethics: 128 controls, 953 requirements, seven domains and 40 published crosswalks. It is open for adoption under the ARISE™ Public Use License (Non-Commercial). Internal governance, education, research, compliance readiness and nonprofit use are free; selling ARISE™-based services, paid audits against it or paid products built on it require a commercial license.
