1) AI Governance and Programme Management
A. Stakeholder considerations, industry frameworks, and regulatory requirements
Organisational structure and overall governance
Roles and responsibilities
Charter and steering committee
Identifying stakeholders
Risk appetite and tolerance
Frameworks, standards, and regulations; selecting appropriate frameworks
Business and use cases for AI
Privacy considerations
B. AI-related strategies, policies, and procedures
AI strategy (consumer vs enterprise; buy vs build)
Policies: responsible use, acceptable use
Procedures: implementation, manuals
Ethics
C. AI asset and data lifecycle management
AI asset and data inventory (inventory management, model cards)
Data handling, classification, discovery
Data augmentation and cleaning; storage; protection; destruction
D. AI security programme development and management
Documented programme plan
Security team roles, responsibilities, proficiencies
Alignment to existing information security
Use of AI-enabled security tools
Metrics and management (KRIs, KPIs)
Management reporting
E. Business continuity and incident response
Detection, notification, classification (criticality/severity)
Resiliency; Business Continuity Plan
Compliance “red-button” requirements
AI-specific incident response playbooks
Break-glass / go-no-go; authority
RTO/RPO from an AI perspective
Disaster recovery; testing
2) AI Risk Management
A. AI risk assessment, thresholds, and treatment
B. Threats, testing, and assurance
Penetration testing; vulnerability testing; red teaming
AI-related vulnerabilities; adversarial threats
Threat intelligence; AI-enabled attack chains; anomalies; landscape
Deepfakes; insider threat; AI agents
C. AI vendor and supply-chain management
Software/library dependencies
Vendor due diligence and contracts; SLAs; usage
Accountability models (provider vs deployer)
Third/fourth/fifth parties; ownership/IP; access controls; liability
Vendor monitoring for risk/changes
3) AI Technologies and Controls
A. Security architecture and design
Change management; SDL; secure-by-design
Securing infrastructure as code
Data flows; approved base models
Interconnectivity with architecture
B. AI lifecycle (model selection, training, validation)
Testing model interconnectivity; linkages between models
Regression/progression; model testing; TEVV
Model accuracy testing and evaluation
C. Data management controls
Data collection and control
Data poisoning; bias; accuracy
Data position/possession requirements
D. Privacy, ethical, trust & safety controls
Explainability; privacy controls (e.g., right to be forgotten, data subject rights)
Consent; transparency; decision-making; fairness; ethics
Automated decision-making; human-in-the-loop
Trust & safety (content moderation); potential harm; environmental impacts
Data minimisation and anonymisation
E. Security controls and monitoring
Security-monitoring metrics; selecting/implementing controls
CSA/self-assessment; control lifecycle; continuous monitoring
KPIs/KRIs for controls and monitoring; technical controls; threat-controls mapping
Security awareness training