November 2025 Newsletter

Marieke van de Putte (Global Domain Lead for Continuous Compliance at Capgemini) and Sanjay Vyas (CTO of Planful) joined Konfer CEO (Debu Chatterjee) in a highly insightful and well-attended webinar titled "Continuous Evidence" on 10/30/2025, discussing how leading enterprises are tackling the surge in AI-related compliance while struggling to automate the gathering of painful, manual evidence. The key takeaways:

i) Automating the Painful Evidence Gathering Process

Konfer's AI agent solutions move GRC from manual, frustrating, periodic evidence collection across disparate systems to an always-on, automated function. This approach is crucial for achieving audit readiness by continuously monitoring systems and reducing the heavy workload on technical teams.

ii) The Auditability Gap of Autonomous AI Agents

The autonomy of AI agents poses significant governance risks, violating GRC principles such as the Separation of Duties, due to the lack of a traceable audit trail. Konfer addresses this by ensuring every agent action has full accountability and provides a human in the loop with the necessary evidence for evaluation and sign-off, making autonomous systems auditable.

iii) AI Is Reshaping Controls, Not Just Documentation

Konfer enables organizations to redefine traditional controls, moving beyond static checklists to a verifiable, continuous signal of control health. This allows compliance teams to push guardrails into the organization and map new regulatory changes (like those driven by the EU AI Act) directly to internal policy, ensuring proactive compliance.

iv) Konfer's Role in Establishing Trust and Reproducibility

To satisfy auditor skepticism of AI-assisted evidence, Konfer ensures all data is backed by provenance (lineage) and reproducibility. This builds immediate trust with auditors, leading directly to benefits like faster product launches (as seen with Planful) and a 60–70% reduction in audit findings.

A global EY survey (published on 10/31/2025) of 975 C-suite leaders across 21 countries and 11 executives confirms that governance is no longer a compliance chore—it’s a driver of profit and competitive advantage. The findings powerfully illustrate the financial consequences of neglecting governance while underscoring the urgent need for tools that can manage agentic AI risks.

The Business Case for Governance:

Companies with robust oversight and real-time monitoring are 34% more likely to see revenue growth and 65% more likely to see cost savings than their peers. Four in five respondents credited AI adoption with already improving innovation (81%) and boosting efficiency (79%).

The High Price of Neglect

The data reveals significant, widespread financial risks directly tied to governance gaps: nearly every company surveyed (99%) reported financial losses resulting from AI-related risks.

The average financial hit among impacted firms was roughly $4.4 million.

The most common causes for these losses were directly GRC-related: non-compliance with AI regulations (57%), sustainability setbacks (55%), and biased outputs (53%).

Konfer's Value Proposition in Key Areas

The report highlights two critical risk areas where Konfer's solutions are used by customers:

i) Two-thirds allow citizen developers, but only 50% have high visibility into this activity, creating enormous risk. Konfer provides the organizational-wide frameworks and continuous monitoring necessary to ensure every AI agent is deployed compliantly, ensuring full visibility and control over autonomous actions

ii) C-Suite Knowledge Gap: Only 12% of C-suite leaders and 11% of Chief Risk Officers correctly matched controls to AI risks, indicating a failure to truly understand governance requirements. Konfer simplifies the complex task of regulatory change management and control mapping, ensuring the right guardrails are applied to AI systems, directly bridging this executive knowledge gap.

Why Are Konfer Clients Prioritizing ISO 42001 Certification Now?

Konfer is witnessing a surge in interest in ISO 42001 certification, the first international standard for an AI Management System (AIMS). This standard is rapidly becoming the essential blueprint for organizations building an “Agentic Enterprise,” where autonomous AI agents drive core business functions.

The powerful macro trends driving Konfer customers' immediate focus on ISO 42001 certification are:

Global AI Regulatory Scrutiny: Governments worldwide, particularly in European countries (and therefore anyone in the USA or Asia supplying to them), are shifting from informal guidance to enforceable laws for AI. ISO 42001 provides a ready-made, auditable management system that aligns with the principles and control requirements of these new AI regulations, making it a powerful tool for achieving regulatory compliance and readiness.

Governing the Agentic Enterprise: Since AI is the new User Interface (UI), and every business is investing in building an Agentic Enterprise, the potential for systemic risk grows with the pervasive deployment of AI. Similar to the widely adopted ISO 27001 standard for Information Security, ISO 42001 offers a scalable and integrated management system that can govern AI practices across the entire organization, from the boardroom to the development team.

Supply Chain and Third-Party Risk Management: Organizations increasingly rely on external vendors, partners, and third-party models for their AI capabilities. ISO 42001 certification provides a common language and assurance mechanism that organizations can use to verify that their vendors and partners are managing their AI systems responsibly, thereby reducing supply chain risk.

Konfer’s latest initiative, Reimagine Compliance: Smarter, Faster, and Always-On with Konfer GenAI, showcases how AI-driven governance is reshaping the compliance landscape for financial services, healthcare, and technology sectors.

Organizations today face mounting regulatory demands and an overwhelming volume of audits, documentation, and evidence requests. Traditional governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) systems rely heavily on manual reporting cycles, creating costly bottlenecks and leaving little room for innovation. Konfer GenAI tackles this challenge head-on by turning compliance into a continuous, intelligent process.

The GenAI suite—comprising Konfer Playbook™, Clear™, and Confidence™—automates critical compliance functions such as control mapping, evidence validation, and real-time risk scoring. The result is a 10x improvement in productivity, with audit readiness achieved continuously rather than periodically.

Konfer’s customers report a dramatic reduction in manual labor and reporting lag while improving their overall regulatory posture. By embedding always-on governance at the enterprise level, Konfer empowers compliance teams to manage evolving regulations with agility and precision.

To explore how Konfer GenAI delivers measurable efficiency gains and audit confidence, visit konfer.ai/reimagine-compliance-smarter-faster-with-konfer-genai.

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