{"id":74104,"date":"2026-06-15T10:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/74104\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:06:13","slug":"agentic-ai-adoption-drives-stronger-governance-oversight-risk-controls-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/74104\/","title":{"rendered":"Agentic AI adoption drives stronger governance oversight, risk controls"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Delhi: With artificial intelligence (AI) rollout gaining traction across organisations, a majority of Indian enterprises are prioritising domestic, industry-specific guidelines and regulatory compliance over global frameworks, finds the ET-Cisco <\/a>AI Readiness & Adoption survey. They foresee implementing stronger controls around ethics, identity management, and privacy in step with the wider deployment of agentic AI.<\/p>\n

While the sectoral and regulatory expectations are the immediate focus, industry officials believe they are broadly aligned with the global framework. For instance, Ratan Kumar Kesh, Chief Operating Officer at Bandhan Bank, considers the Reserve Bank of India\u2019s Framework for Responsible and Ethical Enablement of AI (FREE-AI) as a starting point for a responsible, comprehensive, scalable and ethical deployment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the possibilities of AI are vast, we are being extra careful to ensure that we do not take undue risks related to customer protection or risk management. Moreover, we are investing in an AI governance layer to ensure that in a scaled AI scenario we don\u2019t lose sight of these essential guardrails. Cyber security and data protection are paramount at all times,\u201d Kesh said.<\/p>\n

Aligned with global benchmarks
Local frameworks like DPDP or RBI regulations are structurally aligned with global benchmarks like NIST, ISO, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Europe\u2019s landmark privacy law, Sandeep Agarwal, Chief Technology Officer – Security at Cisco India and South Asia, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the nomenclature may differ on the surface, the underlying controls largely remain the same. For enterprises, the challenge is less about rebuilding infrastructure and more about ensuring the right visibility, security, policy enforcement, and governance capabilities are in place,\u201d Agarwal said.<\/p>\n

The global standards such as AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) created by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology and the IEC 42001 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) inform life insurance firm Aviva India\u2019s AI framework, but it remains anchored in the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India\u2019s (Irdai) consumer-protection mandates, said Gaurav Banka, Chief Risk Officer at Aviva India.
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\u201cThe frameworks are strengthened by human oversight for decisions with significant customer impact. This ensures that AI enhances decision-making while safeguarding rights, privacy, and confidence,\u201d Banka said.<\/p>\n

Despite the focus on meeting local regulations, Indian firms continue to lag in updating the necessary infrastructure. Indian firms remain slow in migrating their workloads from global to localised cloud and AI systems, said Piyush Somani, Managing Director at sovereign cloud services provider ESDS.<\/p>\n

Compliance reality
According to the survey of tech leaders across 214 companies on trust, governance, and the digital personal data protection (DPDP) regime, a majority of enterprises stress they are ready for the currently under-implementation DPDP regime when it comes to AI. But Harsh Walia, Partner at legal firm Khaitan & Co, advises caution.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany organisations may feel reasonably confident they are aligned with the core principles of the DPDP framework, such as consent, purpose limitation, and data minimisation. But given how nascent and nuanced the framework still is, regulatory expectations remain difficult to predict with confidence,\u201d Walia said.<\/p>\n

This article is part of the AI Vantage series, developed in partnership with Cisco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Delhi: With artificial intelligence (AI) rollout gaining traction across organisations, a majority of Indian enterprises are prioritising…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[179,40858,7493,1798,40752,40860,40861,40859],"class_list":["post-74104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-agentic-ai","tag-agentic-ai","tag-agentic-ai-adoption","tag-agentic-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai-governance","tag-bandhan-bank","tag-data-protection-compliance","tag-indian-enterprises-ai-guidelines","tag-risk-management-framework"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}