AI Agent Governance for Regulated Industries
Out-of-process controls and audit evidence for regulated deployments. Cordum supports evidence collection; your auditor determines applicability and compliance.
An out-of-process decision point can support separation-of-duties controls. It gives reviewers policy evidence that does not rely only on the governed workload's own logs.
Cordum's Safety Kernel runs as a separate gRPC service and supports mTLS. Deploy it with separate identities, least-privilege storage access, and independent log access to establish the intended trust boundary.
That separation can support a regulated control program, but it does not clear an audit by itself. See the architectural deep dive and validate the deployment with your auditor.
Built for these verticals
Transaction-limit policy, multi-party approval, and audit-evidence export for teams implementing financial-services controls.
Separation of duties between agent runtime and policy decision point, with tamper-evident records that can support a healthcare control program.
Multi-tenant isolation and decision evidence for public-sector or regulated SaaS teams implementing their own regulatory control mappings.
Control questions to validate with your auditor
These architecture properties commonly shape audit discussions. Their sufficiency depends on deployment and control scope.
Trust boundary separation
The policy decision point runs outside the agent process. With least-privilege deployment and separate credentials, this creates an independently controlled evidence path.
Independent log stream
Policy decisions, approvals, state transitions, and evidence pointers are written to the control-plane store. Access controls determine whether reviewers can rely on it independently of workload logs.
Service identity and policy provenance
Safety Kernel clients support TLS/mTLS, and policy bundles can be signed for verification. Certificate, key-management, and log-access controls determine the evidentiary value of the resulting records.
Compliance evidence pack
A built-in SOC 2 control mapping provides a pragmatic starting point for evidence export. It is not an audit opinion, and your auditor must validate applicability.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does out-of-process governance matter to my auditor?
How does Cordum compare to Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit for regulated buyers?
What evidence does Cordum produce for an EU AI Act audit?
Can Cordum run on customer-managed infrastructure?
How does CordClaw apply for OpenClaw deployments in regulated environments?
What happens during a Safety Kernel outage?
Compliance and audit reading
Practical guides to AI agent compliance frameworks, audit trail design, and policy enforcement evidence.
- Guide
AI Agent Compliance: EU AI Act, NIST, and Global Regulations (2026 Guide)
August 2, 2026 is the EU AI Act high-risk deadline. Maps Articles 9, 12, 13, and 14 to specific technical controls for autonomous AI agents. Covers EU, US, Singapore, China, and ISO 42001.
22 min readApr 9, 2026 - Guide
AI Agent Compliance Mapping: SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST AI RMF Runtime Playbook (2026)
Map autonomous AI agent controls to SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST AI RMF using runtime evidence contracts and approval integrity checks.
14 min readApr 21, 2026 - Guide
AI Agent Audit Trails: Compliance Guide for Production Teams
A practical guide to designing immutable AI agent audit trails for compliance, incident response, and governance reviews.
12 min readMay 5, 2026 - Deep Dive
In-Process vs Out-of-Process AI Agent Governance: Trust Boundary Matters (2026)
Microsoft AGT, Galileo, and APort run in-process. Cordum runs out-of-process. Why trust boundary separation decides whether your AI agent governance survives compromise — and what regulated buyers' auditors expect.
12 min readMay 1, 2026
Talk to us about your audit
Bring us your auditor's questions — separation of duties, audit-trail tamper resistance, and evidence-export scope. We can walk through the documented trust boundaries, demonstrate configured failure behavior, and show how supported exporters send evidence to a SIEM. Your team and auditor determine control sufficiency.