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The EU's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act

Last Updated on May 6, 2026

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The European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act) mandates you to take a risk-based approach to the development, deployment, and use of AI systems, ensuring the safe and responsible use of AI throughout its entire lifecycle.

What does this mean for your organization?

Your organizations must now:

  • Identify every AI system (including shadow AI) in their environment.
  • Classify LLMs based on their risk score.
  • Discover and classify sensitive, regulated data flowing through LLMs.
  • Understand and track data, used to train or fine-tune AI models.

Non-compliance means not only regulatory repercussions, which reach up to €35 million or 7% of global annual turnover, but also reputational damage and loss of customer trust.

You Can’t Govern What You Can’t See

Traditional approaches fall short when it comes to governing AI in an ever-evolving environment, posing the biggest challenges for organizations globally.

Organizations don’t know:

  • What AI models exist in their environment.
  • What data they are using to train or fine-tune the models.
  • What data is flowing through the LLMs.
  • Which AI models or agents accessing sensitive or regulated data.

Compliance isn’t unachievable, but it has surely become fairly difficult.

The Solution

As a privacy leader and the pioneer of the DataAI Command Platform, Securiti enables organizations to ensure safe and compliant use of AI at scale through Data+AI intelligence, controls, and orchestration.

With Securiti, you can:

- Discover and map sensitive data and AI systems across on-prem, SaaS, and multi-cloud environments with automated classification and contextual intelligence.

 - Understand data+AI risks by linking data, users, and regulatory obligations in real time.

-  Power compliance workflows, DSRs, consent, assessments, and privacy notices, built on continuously updated data intelligence.

-  Generate simplified, real-time reports to demonstrate security and privacy compliance.

The European Union’s Data Act

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AI System Discovery

Articles: 6, 5, 50, 51 

Automatically discovers AI models and systems across the environment, allowing teams to inventory AI assets, determine if systems are prohibited (Article 5), or evaluate if they fall under high-risk classifications. It also enhances transparency by identifying tools that require disclosure.

AI System Discovery
Sensitive Data Intelligence

Sensitive Data Intelligence

Articles: 10, 10(2), 10(3), 10(5)

Discover and classify sensitive and regulated data across structured and unstructured sources. Identify exactly which data is used to train, fine-tune, or interact with your AI systems, including shadow AI, and maintain a live inventory with risk classification, ownership, and usage context.

AI Security & Governance

Articles: 9, 9(2), 9(9)

Implement robust controls, including LLM firewalls, to mitigate risks and ensure system robustness and data quality, fulfilling technical requirements under the AI Act. Utilize pre-built compliance assessments and reporting frameworks, and continuously monitor data flows and demonstrate alignment with the regulation.

AI Security & Governance
Automate Compliance Management

Automate Compliance Management

Articles: 13, 17

Automate the regular assessments of all data collection, automation mechanisms, and integrated processes to ensure they remain compliant with the AI Act provisions via a common set of controls and tests.

Policy & Notice Management

Articles: 50(1), 50(2), 50(4), 50(3), 26(7), 26(11)

Automate your privacy policies and transparency notices with the help of pre-built templates that are updated in real-time to ensure compliance with the relevant regulatory requirements.

Policy & Notice Management
Data Mapping Automation

Data Mapping Automation

Articles: 6(4), 11, 18

Track data flows across your organization’s data infrastructure and integrated AI systems. Appropriately trace, catalog, transfer, and document the data flow in real-time.

Assessment Automation

Articles: 16(f), 43, 47, 26(9), 27

Automate assessments with the help of Securiti's multi-regulation, collaborative system that enables you to leverage pre-built compliance templates, review responses, track each assessment's progress in real-time, and share assessments' insights and results with third parties whenever necessary.

Assessment Automation
Data Subject Rights Fulfillments

Data Subject Rights Fulfillments

Article: 86

Automate the process of submitting and responding to individuals’ DSR requests, along with meaningful explanations and resources on the role of AI systems involved in decision-making that may affect them. Furthermore, it reduces the risk of compliance violations by automating the delivery and generation of secure data access reports while also reducing the workforce required to comply with all requests by leveraging pre-built templates and notification extensions.

Data Breach Management

Articles: 20, 23(2), 24(4), 26(5), 73

Automate security incident response notifications to all concerned stakeholders as soon as legally obliged by leveraging a knowledge database on security incident diagnosis and response.

Data Breach Management
Data Security Posture Management

Data Security Posture Management

Articles: 9, 10, 15, 55(1)(d)

Gain comprehensive visibility and auto-remediate potential misconfigurations in data assets across public clouds, data clouds, SaaS, and on-premises environments, in addition to contextual data insights, by leveraging a library of rules based on vendor recommendations, industry standards, and best practices.

Education & Training

Article: 4

Ensure training and awareness on privacy and AI requirements for staff and other personnel as per their technical skills, experience, and educational background.

Education & Training
Vendor Assessment

Vendor Assessment

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Automate the assessment of all AI vendors’ relevant compliance obligations that affect you via the centralized dashboard that also allows for seamless collaboration to manage contracts, ensure compliance, and impose all necessary liabilities.

Key Facts to Know About the EU's AI Act

Here are some key facts to know about the AI Act:

1

The AI Act adopts a risk-based approach and categorizes AI systems based on the inherent risk posed by their application and usage;

2

These risk categories are: Unacceptable-risk, High-risk, Transparency risk, Minimal to no risk;

3

Each risk level has different corresponding regulatory obligations, meaning organizations' requirements and responsibilities under the AI Act will depend on their AI system's risk level;

4

AI systems that present unacceptable risk were banned from February 2025;

5

The AI Act generally prohibits the use of real-time biometric identification systems such as facial recognition in public spaces, apart from a few exceptions for matters of national security or serious crime protection;

6

All AI systems deemed as "high-risk" must be designed to allow for human oversight and will be subject to conformity assessments before being placed on the market;

7

National authorities within EU member states, in tandem with the European Artificial Intelligence Board (EAIB), oversee and enforce the AI Act;

8

Non-compliance with the AI Act's provisions can result in heavy fines that can reach up to €35 million or 7% of global annual turnover for companies that violate the law, whichever one is higher.

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