Onetrust Expands AI Governance To Meet The Demands Of Scalable, Realtime AI

OneTrust introduces new observability and enforcement capabilities to enable continuous, run-time control

ORLANDO, Fla., March 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gartner Data & Analytics Summit -- OneTrust, the AI-Ready Governance Platform™, today announced the expansion of its solution to include real‑time monitoring and enforcement capabilities across agents, models, and data. Designed for data, risk, and AI teams, these enhancements empower organizations to shift AI governance from static compliance workflows to a continuous control plane.

“As AI becomes more embedded across the enterprise, organizations need governance that keeps pace,” said DV Lamba, Chief Product & Technology Officer at OneTrust. “With these new capabilities, OneTrust advances AI governance from point-in-time compliance to continuous, run-time control across key data and AI platforms. This helps organizations innovate with confidence, move faster, reduce risk, and maintain trust as AI scales.”

New AI Governance Observability and Enforcement Capabilities from OneTrust

By introducing new cross-platform monitoring and programmatic guardrail enforcement capabilities, OneTrust expands on its existing suite of AI compliance and risk management tools. These new capabilities allow organizations to extend AI governance into the deeper operational layers where models, agents, data, and infrastructure run, and give teams a practical control plane for governing agents in real time:

• AI Agent Detection & Inventory: Continuously discover and inventory every AI agent, model, and dataset across your environment. Automatically capture ownership, purpose, integrations, data access, lineage, and lifecycle changes—creating a single, always‑current system of record that eliminates blind spots and supports ongoing risk management, compliance, and audit readiness.
• AI Policy Manager & Policy Library: Start with prebuilt, standards‑aligned AI policies or define your own, then centrally monitor compliance across models and agents. Translate frameworks like NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act into real‑time visibility, evidence capture, and continuous policy oversight as AI systems evolve.
• AI Guardrail Enforcement: Continuously inspect AI systems including GenAI, traditional ML models, and agents to validate guardrail configurations and detect violations in real time. Automatically enforce protections when risks arise, such as blocking or limiting personal data exposure, to prevent incidents before they occur and keep AI systems compliant as usage and behavior evolve.
  

Together, these capabilities establish a foundation for continuous AI governance, connecting governance intent to real‑time operational controls across the full AI lifecycle.

As AI development accelerates across cloud platforms and no‑code agent tooling, governance teams must keep pace with how AI is built and deployed in the enterprise. That is why the OneTrust platform integrates with leading AI platforms and agent development environments such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Sagemaker, Azure Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Databricks Unity Catalog, Google Vertex, and more.

How Organizations Operationalize Responsible AI Standards with OneTrust

Blackbaud, the world's leading provider of AI-powered solutions for social impact, uses OneTrust to align AI practices with NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework. OneTrust enables AI governance to scale with Blackbaud’s pace of innovation by integrating with data platforms like Databricks to accelerate stakeholder reviews and embed oversight at every phase of the AI lifecycle.

Kuehne + Nagel, a global leader in transport and logistics, uses OneTrust to operationalize enterprise-wide AI governance. This enables employees to submit AI use cases through centralized intake, assess and classify risk in line with the EU AI Act, and govern AI systems across their full lifecycle by embedding oversight into procurement, development, and production to scale responsible innovation with confidence.

Lumen Technologies, the trusted network for AI, leverages OneTrust automation, workflows, and centralized controls to scale its privacy operations, accelerate regulatory compliance, and reduce risk exposure.

The OneTrust AI-Ready Governance Platform

The OneTrust AI-Ready Governance Platform™ enables organizations to define purpose, automate assessments, enforce controls, and continuously monitor new risks across domains. With OneTrust, organizations can unlock the value of data, accelerate risk analysis, and achieve greater visibility and control to keep innovation moving quickly and responsibly.

Resources

• Learn how to enable continuous AI governance: Watch the demo
• Discover your AI governance maturity: Download the guide
• Understand where AI regulation is headed in 2026: Read the blog
  

About OneTrust
OneTrust, the AI-Ready Governance Platform™, enables innovation through the responsible use of data and AI. Trusted by over half of the Fortune 500, we help businesses govern well and move fast, turning responsible data use into a catalyst for growth. To learn more, follow OneTrust on LinkedIn or visit www.onetrust.com.    

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