ISO/IEC 42001:2023

ISO 42001 Annex A Control Mapping

Clear visibility into which controls WhiteBox XAI automates, and which remain your organization's responsibility.

Preparing for an ISO 42001 audit means tracking 38 Annex A controls across every AI system you build or buy. WhiteBox XAI accelerates this by automating technical controls (like drift and fairness) and providing a centralized workflow and evidence repository for your organizational controls.

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Annex A.2 — Policies related to AI

A.2.2
Your Org

AI policy

The organization's uploaded AI policy, versioned and dated, is stored as compliance evidence and linked to this control. The platform stores and links the policy; it does not author it.
A.2.3
Workflow

Alignment with other organizational policies

Cross-references between the AI policy and existing security, privacy and risk policies, recorded as linked evidence.
A.2.4
Workflow

Review of the AI policy

The compliance calendar schedules the recurring policy review as an internal milestone; the reviewed policy, with its review date, is uploaded as evidence.

Annex A.3 — Internal organization

A.3.2
Workflow

AI roles and responsibilities

RBAC role assignments and the RACI roles recorded on each governance review request.
A.3.3
Workflow

Reporting of concerns

Review request submission and the governance review board's escalation path give staff a route to raise a concern about an AI system.

Annex A.4 — Resources for AI systems

A.4.2
Your Org

Resource documentation

Model cards record a system's training data and architecture. The wider resource catalogue (compute, tooling, people) is documented by the organization and uploaded as evidence.
A.4.3
Automated

Data resources

Data lineage tracing and the prediction/feature inputs recorded for a model.
A.4.4
Your Org

Tooling resources

The model card's architecture and model-type fields record what a model was built with. The tooling inventory itself (libraries, frameworks, pipeline) is maintained by the organization and uploaded as evidence.
A.4.5
Your Org

System and computing resources

The platform does not track a model's infrastructure or hosting. Compute and hosting are evidenced by cloud-provider records the organization uploads.
A.4.6
Workflow

Human resources

Competence records for the people who build, review and approve AI systems.

Annex A.5 — Assessing impacts of AI systems

A.5.2
Workflow

AI system impact assessment process

The model register's governance dossier brings a system's risk classification and fairness audit results together as inputs to its impact assessment. The assessment process itself is documented by the organization and stored as evidence.
A.5.3
Workflow

Documentation of AI system impact assessments

Impact assessment documents are stored as evidence with a sign-off workflow (approval status, approver and timestamp), and the audit trail records each change to them.
A.5.4
Automated

Assessing impacts on individuals or groups

Fairness audits across protected attributes using the supported fairness metrics, with a severity rating and recommended mitigation for any disparity found.
A.5.5
Your Org

Assessing societal impacts of AI systems

Model cards record each system's ethical considerations and its social, environmental and human-life impact. The organization's own societal-impact assessment (economic, democratic and labor effects included) is uploaded and linked as evidence; the platform does not compute societal impact.

Annex A.6 — AI system life cycle

A.6.1.2
Automated

Objectives for responsible development of AI system

Trust score component weights and per-model performance thresholds recorded as measurable development objectives.
A.6.1.3
Your Org

Processes for responsible design and development

The organization's model-development process documentation, covering how risk, ethics and safety checks are embedded before a model reaches the register.
A.6.2.2
Workflow

AI system requirements and specification

Model registration records a system's declared features, model type and description, and the model card adds its intended use, together forming the specification record.
A.6.2.3
Workflow

Documentation of AI system design and development

The model card's architecture, training approach and parameter documentation.
A.6.2.4
Automated

AI system verification and validation

Baseline metrics recorded at registration and the model comparison view evidence validation before promotion. WhiteBox archives adversarial red teaming evidence; customers provide test reports from tools like Promptfoo or Mindgard.
A.6.2.5
Workflow

AI system deployment

The lifecycle-stage transition to production, gated by a review board decision where one is required.
A.6.2.6
Automated

AI system operation and monitoring

Drift detection and performance monitoring, alerting when a threshold is breached.
A.6.2.7
Workflow

AI system technical documentation

The model card, and regulatory documentation records (each with a requirement reference such as Annex IV or Article 11) for EU AI Act systems.
A.6.2.8
Automated

AI system recording of event logs

The immutable audit trail's event log for every action taken against a model or its governance records.

Annex A.7 — Data for AI systems

A.7.2
Workflow

Data for development and enhancement of AI system

Datasheets record each dataset's purpose, composition, splits and recommended uses, and the model card records a system's training data description and sources.
A.7.3
Your Org

Acquisition of data

Datasheets record each dataset's acquisition method, sampling strategy, collection timeframe, licence and ethical review. Whether sourcing was lawful is attested by the organization, not checked by the platform.
A.7.4
Your Org

Quality of data for AI systems

Data lineage nodes carry a quality status, datasheets record missing-data characteristics, and drift monitoring flags shifts in input distributions. The platform does not compute feature-level data-quality metrics; the organization's data-quality reports are uploaded as evidence.
A.7.5
Automated

Data provenance

Data lineage records each dataset's source and the transformations applied to it, and a prediction can be traced back to the input record that produced it.
A.7.6
Workflow

Data preparation

Datasheets record cleaning and preprocessing steps and the labeling process, and the model card records a system's data preprocessing.

Annex A.8 — Information for interested parties

A.8.2
Automated

System documentation and information for users

Published model cards give downstream users a system's intended use, limitations and performance, and explainability outputs (SHAP/LIME) show what drove an individual prediction.
A.8.3
Your Org

External reporting

The breach register records whether and when a supervisory authority was notified. Other external disclosures (regulator filings, customer or public reports) are made by the organization, and their records are uploaded as evidence.
A.8.4
Workflow

Communication of incidents

The breach register (with its authority-notification history) and the security-incident log record what happened and who was told.
A.8.5
Your Org

Information for interested parties

Model cards can be published with a public URL, and compliance reports can be exported for regulators, auditors and customers; the organization decides who receives them.

Annex A.9 — Use of AI systems

A.9.2
Your Org

Processes for responsible use of AI systems

Acceptable-use guidance for internal consumers of a model, recorded as a policy document.
A.9.3
Your Org

Objectives for responsible use of AI system

Governance review decisions and the RACI roles on each review request record who holds decision authority over a model's release. The organization's human-oversight objectives (human-in-the-loop review, override authority) are documented by the organization and uploaded as evidence; the platform has no per-model human-oversight field.
A.9.4
Workflow

Intended use of the AI system

The model card's stated intended uses, intended users and out-of-scope uses. The platform records the documented scope; it does not itself detect use outside it.

Annex A.10 — Third-party and customer relationships

A.10.2
Your Org

Allocation of responsibilities

Vendor and foundation-model-provider agreements, uploaded as evidence and linked to the systems that depend on them.
A.10.3
Your Org

Suppliers

The organization's vendor assessments for any third-party model, dataset or API a system depends on, uploaded as evidence. The platform has no vendor-assessment workflow of its own.
A.10.4
Workflow

Customers

The model card and terms-of-use documentation given to customers who consume a model's predictions or API.

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