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.
Platform Automated
Platform Workflow
Customer Responsibility
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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