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Connecting Enterprise AI Governance to Operational Control

Posted by Jeff Orr on 22 September 2026

Enterprise AI governance is advancing faster than the operational controls needed to support it. Organizations are defining principles, policies, risk tiers, review boards, lifecycle gates and accountability models for AI. These efforts establish what should be allowed, required or prohibited. They do not always determine how those requirements will be enforced once AI is embedded in... Read More

Topics: Cybersecurity, Observability, Intelligent Automation, IT & Technologies, ADM & DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, IT Management & Operations, AI Governance, Control Layer, Operational Control

The Fourth Enterprise Control Plane Is Emerging Around AI

Posted by Jeff Orr on 11 August 2026

Enterprise architecture has traditionally been organized around three primary control planes: infrastructure, identity and applications. Each evolved to solve a specific challenge. Infrastructure established where workloads execute. Identity determined who could access enterprise resources. Applications standardized business processes and information flows. Artificial intelligence introduces a... Read More

Topics: Observability, IT & Technologies, Identity, IT Management & Operations, AI Governance, Control Layer, Enterprise Architecture, Policy, Runtime Control, Detection and Response