# Assessed Intelligence > Assessed Intelligence is a cybersecurity and AI governance consultancy focused on Secure & Responsible Technology. We help organizations in critical sectors implement, operate, and validate governance programs for AI, cybersecurity, privacy, and ethics through the ARISE Framework™, a proprietary 7-domain assurance framework mapped to NIST, ISO 42001, the EU AI Act, and 240+ global regulations. Assessed Intelligence Research finds that 76% of critical-sector companies have AI risk governance gaps. Our mission is to eliminate those gaps so critical sectors can scale technology that is secure, responsible, and auditable. Headquartered in Canton, Ohio, USA, with EMEA operations in London, UK. ## Services - [Capabilities Overview](https://assessedintelligence.com/capabilities/): Integrated cybersecurity and responsible AI governance capabilities, delivered by practitioners and connected through the ARISE Framework. - [IMPLEMENT — Advisory](https://assessedintelligence.com/implement-advisory/): Project-based advisory engagements covering governance framework design, regulatory alignment, and audit preparation for AI and cybersecurity programs. - [OPERATE — Retainer Services](https://assessedintelligence.com/operate/): Fractional executive leadership on retainer, embedding senior cybersecurity, AI governance, legal, and ethics expertise without full-time overhead. - [VALIDATE — Audit & Attestation](https://assessedintelligence.com/validate/): Independent third-party audit and attestation for AI governance, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance, producing defensible evidence for regulators, auditors, and investors. - [Get Assessed](https://assessedintelligence.com/getassessed/): Start with a governance maturity assessment to establish where your organization stands today. - [AI Governance Maturity](https://assessedintelligence.com/ai-governance-maturity/): AI governance maturity assessment. ## ARISE Framework - [The ARISE Framework](https://assessedintelligence.com/arise-framework/): Assurance of Responsible, Innovative & Secure Environments. A unified governance model integrating cybersecurity, AI risk, privacy, and ethics into one continuous assurance program across 7 domains (GOVERN, MANAGE, IDENTIFY, PROTECT, DETECT, RESPOND, VALIDATE), mapped to 20+ global standards including NIST, ISO 42001, the EU AI Act, SB 53, the Colorado AI Act, the Texas AI Act, and Local Law 144. - [ARISE Public Use License](https://assessedintelligence.com/license/): Non-commercial public license permitting academic, nonprofit, and internal organizational use of the ARISE Framework. - [Partner Program](https://assessedintelligence.com/partner-program/): The ARISE Ecosystem Partner Program for technology vendors, advisors, and market leaders. ## Capabilities - [Risk Intelligence](https://assessedintelligence.com/capabilities-integrated-risk-intelligence/): Unifies AI, cybersecurity, and regulatory risk into a single operational picture tied to business impact, with cross-domain visibility and board-ready decision frameworks. - [Responsible AI Governance](https://assessedintelligence.com/capabilities-responsible-ai-governance/): End-to-end AI accountability from design through deployment, with bias detection, explainability validation, human-in-the-loop controls, and audit trails aligned to NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and the EU AI Act. - [Executive Leadership](https://assessedintelligence.com/capabilities-executive-leadership/): Fractional executive security and AI leadership for organizations that need senior expertise without full-time cost. - [vCISO](https://assessedintelligence.com/role-vciso/): Virtual Chief Information Security Officer, delivered as a fractional executive role. - [vCRAIO](https://assessedintelligence.com/role-vcraio/): Virtual Chief Responsible AI Officer, providing embedded AI governance leadership. - [Regulatory & Legal Readiness](https://assessedintelligence.com/capabilities-regulatory-legal-readiness/): Compliance strategy and readiness engineering for evolving AI, cyber, and privacy regulation. - [On-Demand Advisory](https://assessedintelligence.com/capabilities-on-demand-advisory/): Rapid access to senior advisors when high-impact risk events demand cross-functional expertise. - [Operational Resilience](https://assessedintelligence.com/capabilities-operational-resilience/): Incident response and governance integration so organizations can withstand and recover from disruption. - [WorkForce Enablement](https://assessedintelligence.com/capabilities-workforce-enablement/): Capability building and upskilling to close security and AI skills gaps. - [VC & Startups Diligence](https://assessedintelligence.com/capabilities-vc-startup-diligence/): Cybersecurity and AI governance due diligence for deal valuation and investor confidence. - [Education & Awareness](https://assessedintelligence.com/capabilities-education/): Security and AI awareness programs addressing human error as a leading cause of cyberattacks. - [Education Sector Services](https://assessedintelligence.com/education/): Governance support for schools and education systems adopting AI and digital tools. - [RED Assessment](https://assessedintelligence.com/red-assessment/): Risk, Exposure and Discovery assessment package: know what you have before it becomes a liability. - [Internal Audit & Gap Assessment — ISO 42001/27001](https://assessedintelligence.com/audit-gap-assessment/): Internal audit and gap assessment for ISO 42001 and ISO 27001 readiness. ## Industries - [Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals](https://assessedintelligence.com/segment-healthcare/): Governance for AI in clinical decision support, diagnostics, and patient engagement. - [Financial Institutions](https://assessedintelligence.com/segment-financial-institutions/): Maintaining trust, transparency, and regulatory control as financial institutions adopt AI. - [Government & Public Sector](https://assessedintelligence.com/segment-government/): Preserving public trust as agencies modernize through AI and digital technology. - [Defense Industry](https://assessedintelligence.com/segment-defense-industry/): Governance for rapid deployment of AI and autonomous systems in defense technology. - [Manufacturing](https://assessedintelligence.com/segment-manufacturing/): Managing risk as AI, automation, and connected systems transform manufacturing. - [Startups & VCs](https://assessedintelligence.com/segment-startups-vcs/): Meeting enterprise-customer and investor governance expectations while growing fast. ## Tools & Resources - [Assessed Regulation Intelligence](https://assessedintelligence.com/airegtrack/): Live regulatory tracking tool covering 240+ global AI, cybersecurity, and privacy regulations, each mapped to ARISE Framework control coverage. - [Resources & Practitioner Guides](https://assessedintelligence.com/resources/): Free field guides on vendor AI risk, AI governance readiness, vCISO onboarding, agentic AI controls, and board-level risk reporting. - [Assessed Institute Courses](https://assessedintelligence.com/courses/): AI governance education and training through the Assessed Institute learning portal. - [Trust Center](https://assessedintelligence.com/trust-center/): Details of the Assessed Intelligence security and compliance program. ## Research & Publications - [Deploying Responsible AI](https://assessedintelligence.com/deploying-responsible-ai/): AI adoption is outpacing governance; a practitioner framework for responsible deployment. - [Evolving Risk Management](https://assessedintelligence.com/evolving-risk-management/): Co-authored research (Dotan, Blili-Hamelin, Madhavan, Matthews, Scarpino) on moving the responsible AI community from general principles to tangible practice. - [Evaluating AI Governance](https://assessedintelligence.com/evaluating-ai-governance/): Research on assessing the substance, not the claims, of AI governance programs. - [Evaluating Organizational Alignment with the NIST AI Risk Management Framework](https://assessedintelligence.com/evaluating-organizational-alignment-with-the-nist-ai-risk-management-framework/): Citing the NIST AI RMF is not the same as aligning with its substance; a method for measuring real alignment. - [Evolving AI Risk Management: A Maturity Model Based on the NIST AI RMF](https://assessedintelligence.com/evolving-ai-risk-management-a-maturity-model-based-on-the-nist-ai-risk-management-framework/): A maturity model that turns responsible AI principles into measurable organizational practice. - [Assessing AI Governance: A Maturity Model](https://assessedintelligence.com/assessing-ai-governance-maturity-model-nist-ai-rmf/): Maturity-based approach to adopting appropriate AI governance practices. - [Ethical Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning By Design](https://assessedintelligence.com/ethical-artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning-by-design/): Addressing privacy, bias, and discrimination risks before technologies are integrated, not after. - [Evaluating Ethical Challenges in AI and ML](https://assessedintelligence.com/evaluating-ethical-challenges-in-ai-and-ml/): Research on privacy, bias, and discrimination challenges in deployed AI and ML systems. - [Designing Ethical Systems by Auditing Ethics](https://assessedintelligence.com/designing-ethical-systems-by-auditing-ethics/): Ethics treated as a communications function fails when tested; auditing ethics as a design discipline. - [Applying Privacy-Enhancing Technologies to LLMs in Critical Infrastructure Contexts](https://assessedintelligence.com/applying-privacy-enhancing-technologies-to-llms-in-critical-infrastructure-contexts/): Data exposure risks in LLMs that standard security controls were not designed to address. - [Securing AI Systems Through Transparency: A CIA Triad-Based Analysis](https://assessedintelligence.com/securing-ai-systems-through-transparency-a-cia-triad-based-analysis/): Extending the CIA Triad to the transparency requirements of AI systems. - [Risks to Financial Inclusion by Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Counterterrorism Algorithms](https://assessedintelligence.com/risks-to-financial-inclusion-by-anti-money-laundering-and-financial-counterterrorism-algorithms/): How AML and counterterrorism algorithms built to detect illicit flows can exclude legitimate users. - [PECB Publication — EU AI Act](https://assessedintelligence.com/pecb-publication-eu-ai-act/): Why EU AI Act readiness requires more than risk classification. - [AI in Education: Navigating a Double-Edged Sword](https://assessedintelligence.com/the-use-and-abuse-of-ai-in-education-navigating-a-double-edged-sword/): The significant and complex impact of AI adoption on education. ## Analysis & Commentary - [Policy Is Not a Control. ARISE™ Fixes It.](https://assessedintelligence.com/policy-is-not-a-control-arise-fixes-it/): Why traditional policy-based governance models are inadequate for AI, and what operational controls require instead. - [Governance Is the New Perimeter](https://assessedintelligence.com/governance-is-the-new-perimeter-ai-risk-in-2026/): AI governance in 2026 is shifting from concept to critical operational necessity. - [The Pursuit of Responsible AI](https://assessedintelligence.com/the-pursuit-of-responsible-ai/): AI systems are making consequential decisions in healthcare, finance, and public administration; governance must keep pace. - [Why Audit Is the Missing Layer of Assurance](https://assessedintelligence.com/audit-is-the-missing-layer-of-assurance/): As enterprises adopt agentic AI, independent audit becomes the missing layer of accountability. - [Innovating Audit for an Innovative World](https://assessedintelligence.com/innovating-audit-for-an-innovative-world/): Traditional audit frameworks were built for static systems; continuously evolving AI demands a new model. - [Lessons Learned: Frontier Technology Adoption](https://assessedintelligence.com/lessons-learned-frontier-technology-adoption/): The governance crisis that goes unnoticed until frontier technology adoption makes it visible. - [When "By Design" Is the Breach](https://assessedintelligence.com/when-by-design-is-the-casue/): The April 2026 Lovable platform exposure and what it reveals about security-by-design claims. - [The Gap Between AI Safety Rhetoric and Regulatory Reality](https://assessedintelligence.com/the-gap-between-ai-safety-rhetoric-and-regulatory-reality/): Accountability decisions are being shaped behind closed doors while safety rhetoric widens the gap with regulatory reality. - [Managing Performance Metrics with Governance](https://assessedintelligence.com/managing-performance-metrics-with-governance/): The "tokenmaxxing" trend of measuring employee performance by AI token consumption, and how governance addresses it. - [When the Performance Metric Becomes the Governance Risk](https://assessedintelligence.com/when-the-performance-metric-becomes-the-governance-risk/): How volume-driven AI usage metrics create leaderboard cultures that become governance risks. - [Is Your Organisation Insured for AI Risks?](https://assessedintelligence.com/is-your-organisation-insured-for-ai-risks/): What the MIT AI Risk Initiative's AI Risk Navigator means for AI insurability. - [White House National AI Policy Framework](https://assessedintelligence.com/white-house-sends-congress-a-national-ai-policy-framework-here-is-what-it-says/): The White House National Policy Framework for AI and its seven legislative priorities for Congress. - [California AB 2013 In Effect](https://assessedintelligence.com/california-ab-2013-in-effect/): California's AI training-data transparency law takes effect. ## Case Studies & Projects - [Case Study: Shadow AI](https://assessedintelligence.com/casestudy-shadow-ai-arise/): Shadow-AI exposure surfaced by the June 2026 U.S. export control directive, and how ARISE-based governance addressed it. - [Case Study: ARISE Framework™](https://assessedintelligence.com/case-study-arise-framework/): How the ARISE Framework provides a unified approach to regulatory compliance across industries. - [Three Months. Nine Sectors. One Governance Architecture.](https://assessedintelligence.com/three-months-nine-sectors-one-governance-architecture/): ARISE Framework deployment results across nine sectors in three months. - [Unified Approach to AI Governance Gains Rapid Adoption](https://assessedintelligence.com/unified-approach-to-ai-governance-gains-rapid-adoption/): The ARISE Framework surpasses 500 users within two months of launch. - [KYC: Intelligent Financial Inclusion](https://assessedintelligence.com/kyc-intelligent-financial-inclusion/): Bridging rigorous AML/CFT compliance and inclusive financial access through federated learning, the ARISE Framework, and community-grounded behavioral analytics. ## Across the Industry Brief (Weekly) - [Issue 16](https://assessedintelligence.com/across-the-industry-brief-issue-16/): Illinois becomes the third state to regulate frontier model developers; the FTC weighs federal preemption of state AI laws; the UN convenes a Global Dialogue on AI Governance. - [Issue 15](https://assessedintelligence.com/across-the-industry-brief-issue-15/): The US Commerce Department lifts export controls on Anthropic's frontier models after an 18-day suspension; the EU adopts AI Act timeline revisions deferring high-risk obligations to 2027-2028; California and New Jersey enact AI child-safety legislation. - [Issue 14](https://assessedintelligence.com/across-the-industry-brief-issue-14/): Arizona vetoes all three AI bills passed by its legislature as the state-level AI policy patchwork grows past 600 bills introduced in 2026. - [Issue 13](https://assessedintelligence.com/across-the-industry-brief-issue-13/): Rhode Island and Vermont prohibit AI from acting as therapists and impose strict penalties on chatbot operators. - [Issue 12](https://assessedintelligence.com/across-the-industry-brief-issue-12/): A US export control directive bars foreign nationals from accessing Anthropic's advanced AI models, prompting worldwide model shutdowns. - [Issue 11](https://assessedintelligence.com/across-the-industry-brief-issue-11/): House lawmakers unveil the Great American Artificial Intelligence Act, proposing a three-year preemption of state AI development laws. - [Issue 10](https://assessedintelligence.com/across-the-industry-brief-issue-10/): An executive order establishes a voluntary framework for developers to share frontier AI models with the government for cybersecurity review. - [Issue 9](https://assessedintelligence.com/across-the-industry-brief-issue-9/): A postponed executive order leaves the future of frontier AI model oversight uncertain. - [Issue 8](https://assessedintelligence.com/across-the-industry-brief-issue-8/): Critical updates on cybersecurity vulnerabilities and AI advancements. - [Issue 7](https://assessedintelligence.com/across-the-industry-brief-issue-7/): The administration embraces federal oversight of AI safety, driven by national security concerns around advanced models. - [Issue 6](https://assessedintelligence.com/across-the-industry-brief-issue-6/): Critical developments shaping the AI regulatory and threat landscape. - [Issue 5](https://assessedintelligence.com/across-the-industry-brief-issue-5/): The EU nears agreement on AI Act compliance deadline extensions for high-risk AI systems. - [Issue 4](https://assessedintelligence.com/across-the-industry-brief-issue-4/): Key policy developments shaping the AI landscape. - [Issue 3](https://assessedintelligence.com/across-the-industry-brief-3/): Critical cybersecurity threats and US policy developments. - [Issue 2](https://assessedintelligence.com/across-the-industry-brief-2/): California's governor signs an executive order positioning the state as a counterweight to federal AI deregulation. - [Issue 1](https://assessedintelligence.com/across-the-industry-brief-apr-1/): The administration's National AI Legislative Framework urges Congress to establish a unified federal standard preempting state AI laws. ## Assessed Signal Newsletter (Monthly) - [June 2026](https://assessedintelligence.com/assessed-signal-june-2026/): The June 2026 US export control directive and its governance implications. - [May 2026](https://assessedintelligence.com/assessed-signal-may-2026/): The regulatory collision between California's AI procurement executive order and the federal preemption framework, as the Colorado AI Act and EU AI Act reach enforceability. - [April 2026](https://assessedintelligence.com/assessed-signal-april-2026/): Dual compliance burdens from state, federal, and EU AI regulation converging. - [March 2026](https://assessedintelligence.com/assessed-signal-march-2026/): Why cybersecurity must shift from traditional patching to a systems-theory approach for agentic AI and autonomous workflows. - [February 2026](https://assessedintelligence.com/assessed-signal-february-2026/): Industry adopts AI for the right reasons but fails to understand the risks and vulnerabilities adoption entails. - [December 2025](https://assessedintelligence.com/assessed-signal-december-2025/): AI adoption accelerates in government and industry while risk understanding lags. - [November 2025](https://assessedintelligence.com/assessed-signal-november-2025/): Long-term privacy and security challenges organizations overlook when adopting AI/ML. ## News & Events - [Assessed Intelligence Launches Assessed Institute](https://assessedintelligence.com/assessed-intelligence-launches-assessed-institute/): Launch of the Assessed Institute learning platform for AI governance capability building (May 2026). - [ARISE Framework™ Launch](https://assessedintelligence.com/arise-framework-launch/): Public launch of the ARISE Framework unified governance model. - [ForHumanity Launches First US-Based AI Policy Accelerator](https://assessedintelligence.com/forhumanity-launches-the-first-us-based-ai-policy-accelerator-with-servus-ai-and-assessed-intelligence-providing-concurrent-assurance/): Assessed Intelligence provides concurrent assurance for the first US-based AI Policy Accelerator with ForHumanity and Servus AI. - [Collaboration to Advance Secure & Responsible AI](https://assessedintelligence.com/forhumanity-and-assessed-intelligence/): ForHumanity and Assessed Intelligence collaborate on defensible AI governance. - [ARISE Maturity Hackathon](https://assessedintelligence.com/ai-maturity_hackathon/): Hands-on event to uncover gaps in organizational governance programs. - [Governance Workshop — ARISE Foundations](https://assessedintelligence.com/governance-workshop/): Workshop: you cannot protect what you haven't defined. - [The Cyber Mettle Podcast](https://assessedintelligence.com/the-cyber-mettle-podcast/): Graeme Rudd, COO, on why AI governance is already broken and how to fix it. - [Legal AI Podcast](https://assessedintelligence.com/legal-ai-podcast-with-paul-crafer/): Paul Crafer, VP Services EMEA, on AI governance in legal contexts. - [CISO Insights Podcast](https://assessedintelligence.com/ciso-insights/): Josh Scarpino on security and compliance leadership. - [Redesigned Website Launch](https://assessedintelligence.com/ai-launches-redesigned-website/): Press release: redesigned website reflecting expanded AI and cyber risk capabilities (March 2026). ## Company - [About Us](https://assessedintelligence.com/about-us/): Consultancy forged in real-world operations across critical industries, focused on the intersection of cybersecurity, AI governance, and regulatory compliance. - [Meet the Team](https://assessedintelligence.com/meet-the-team/): Veterans, scientists, lawyers, technologists, and ethicists united by one mission: making technology serve humanity, securely and responsibly. - [Blog](https://assessedintelligence.com/blog/): Practical frameworks and expert analysis on AI governance, cybersecurity, and risk. - 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