NIST

NIST's Generative AI Profile is the most concrete control content we have for GenAI risk, but it is voluntary, and the attestation regimes buyers actually enforce have no native GenAI language. The fix for mid-sized firms is to feed the profile's controls into the SOC 2 machinery they already run, not to build a parallel governance program.

NIST's April 2026 concept note for an AI RMF profile on critical infrastructure imports the vocabulary of functional safety, deterministic behavior, graceful degradation, and fail-safe operation into a framework built for probabilistic systems. Here is what that collision means for OT and ICS operators.

NIST's Center for AI Standards and Innovation launched the AI Agent Standards Initiative in February 2026, the first federal program targeting autonomous-agent governance. Here is what it signals, the compliance gap it exposes, and how organizations should prepare before voluntary guidance hardens into procurement and audit requirements.

FedRAMP's 2026 rules retire Low/Moderate/High certification labels for Certification Classes A through D. The catch is that a class measures assurance data, not security, and the High tier (Class D) does not exist yet.