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Unified Governance Framework
Certify against: ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27701, ISO/IEC 42001, GDPR, PIPEDA, Saudi PDPL · Incorporates DAMA-DMBOK, NIST CSF 2.0, NIST AI RMF, IEEE 7000
The flagship: Security, Privacy, Data Governance, AI Governance and Data Ethics as one programme, with shared governance at the top and certification and compliance profiles for each standard. Professional edition only; included in APEX Enterprise.
The standard tells you what is required; the framework tells you how to do it, whether you've done enough to certify, and how to keep getting better.
Five domains, one programme
- Security, Privacy, Data Governance, AI Governance and Data Ethics in one framework, with the shared governance at the top: council, policy, roles, risk, evidence and assurance.
- A control that serves several standards appears once and cites all of them, so nothing is assessed twice.
- Every profile keeps its own clause list, so the Certification view works standard by standard.
- The Governance Playbook is the operating model for the whole programme.
What you get
The Unified Governance Framework comes in the Professional edition only.
For an organisation running governance as one programme across all five domains. Included in APEX Enterprise.
- The framework, maturity criteria 0–5, certification thresholds and the clause-coverage map for every profile
- Governance Playbook (PDF and Word): how to run the framework as a programme, with suggested RACI and delivery waves
- Risk Library, linked to the controls that treat each risk
- Cross-framework mapping
- Templates: policy, assessment questionnaire, evidence register, RACI matrix and programme charter
- APEX import file, to load the framework into the APEX Governance Platform
A free sample, the summary and the first capability, will be here when the framework is published. The Professional edition includes the APEX import file, so the framework loads straight into the APEX Governance Platform. Framework purchases made within 12 months are credited in full against your first year of APEX Business or Enterprise.
Standards
- Certification profiles
- Compliance profiles
- Practice profiles
Standards are referenced by clause, not reproduced. Every standard we trace.
Profiles
Every standard Unified Governance Framework covers is listed in Standards we trace.
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