EC-Council Releases ADG 2.0 AI Governance Framework

EC-Council announced in a press release the release of ADG 2.0, the second version of its Adopt, Defend, Govern framework for AI governance. The organization will provide the framework, regulatory crosswalks and assistance at no cost to governments, regulators and standards bodies.

ADG 2.0 expands the original 12 minimum controls to more than 180 controls across 12 control families. It maps those controls to more than 90 regulations, standards and frameworks, including the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, MITRE ATLAS and the OWASP Agentic Top 10.

The framework defines controls for design, data, runtime monitoring, incident response and third party risk. It also sets three autonomy levels, identifies when human approval is required and specifies the evidence organizations must retain for each control.

ADG 2.0, its crosswalks and an AI readiness self assessment are available without registration or licensing fees.