OneTrust Announces AI Agents and New Capabilities to Deliver AI-Ready Governance

At TrustWeek, OneTrust unveils new privacy and risk agents, automated data discovery, and an AI governance integration to accelerate the governance lifecycle

NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- OneTrust, the AI-ready governance platform, today announced a series of new capabilities to help governance teams address the complexity and speed of AI. In a recent report from OneTrust, governance teams reported a 37% increase in the time they spent managing AI risk this year. AI has changed both how and what organizations govern, and OneTrust's recent innovations are designed to help teams keep pace with these demands.

"AI is creating powerful new engines for efficiency, decision-making, and innovation," said DV Lamba, Chief Technology Officer at OneTrust. "Governance professionals can lead this transformation by defining AI's role in risk management, compliance, and governance. OneTrust has built a governance platform to address the breadth of challenges AI introduces across the tech stack. With capabilities spanning automated workflows to AI agents and more, OneTrust is making continuous governance possible and giving organizations the operational catalyst they need to thrive in the AI era."

The innovations OneTrust announced today include:

OneTrust Third-Party Risk Agent: Intake a third party and identify critical risks in minutes, not months
Traditional third-party risk assessments are manual and slow, requiring tedious project management that can go on for weeks or even months, wasting resources and delaying third-party selection and onboarding. The OneTrust Third-Party Risk Agent targets the most painful bottlenecks to automate intake, accelerate assessment, summarize key findings, flag risks and issues, and guide monitoring and response to critical risk events. This allows teams to quickly validate findings and inform third-party selection with confidence.

OneTrust Privacy Agent: Helping privacy pros accelerate risk reviews
Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA) have long required privacy professionals to spend hours gathering documents, interviewing stakeholders, and filling out lengthy questionnaires to create business context. OneTrust's Privacy Agent automates this work by analyzing project documents and converting them into structured assessment responses within minutes. With scalable knowledge of past assessments, this agent enables privacy teams to accelerate reviews with consistency, context, and confidence.

Continuous AI Governance Synchronization with Databricks Unity Catalog: Enabling governance teams with the real-time AI project information they need
AI speed brings AI complexity, meaning governance teams often struggle to get up-to-date information across the AI development lifecycle. Now, continuous synchronization of AI projects between OneTrust and Databricks gives governance teams centralized, real-time visibility into AI development and helps them track what is being built, where it lives, and what data it touches. This native integration ensures that any model registered in Databricks Unity Catalog is also available in OneTrust to create a single source of truth.

Privacy Automation Discovery: Data mapping that matches the speed of your business
This new capability reduces the manual, time-consuming work of discovering and classifying personal data while giving privacy teams faster, more accurate visibility into how data is used across the business. The OneTrust platform automatically discovers and monitors structured and unstructured data stored in databases, buckets, blob storage, other cloud sources, and file shares. Once assets are discovered, automated data classification adds business context to the privacy team's data map, closing the gap between business and technical understanding of data use in the organization.

Defining the Future of AI-Ready Governance
The innovations announced today are the latest brought to market as part of OneTrust's commitment to embedding AI directly into its platform. They join a suite of AI-driven capabilities spanning agents, AI-assisted workflows, and Copilots that are transforming how organizations achieve continuous governance.

The 2025 AI-Ready Governance Report
AI has changed both what organizations govern and how they govern. OneTrust's 2025 AI-Ready Governance Report reveals how governance teams are responding to this new reality, the challenges they are facing, and how they plan to achieve governance at scale. Download a copy of the report here.

TrustWeek 2025 on Tour
OneTrust is taking TrustWeek on the road with upcoming events in San Francisco on September 30 and Amsterdam on October 21. Hear real-world insights from trusted voices in responsible AI and governance leaders at some of the world's most influential companies. To secure your spot, register today.

About OneTrust
OneTrust is the leading AI-ready governance platform. More than 14,000 customers globally, including over half of the Fortune 500, rely on OneTrust to accelerate innovation while ensuring responsible data use. To learn more, follow OneTrust on LinkedIn or visit www.onetrust.com 

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