Scytale adds the EU AI Act to its suite of security and data privacy frameworks, helping businesses achieve AI compliance with confidence while driving innovation.
New York, NY, 4 September, 2025
We are excited to announce that Scytale now supports the EU AI Act, the world’s first comprehensive regulation on artificial intelligence.
The EU AI Act is designed to regulate AI systems across the European Union based on their level of risk, balancing the need for innovation with responsibility. It officially came into force on 1 August 2024, after being published in the Official Journal on 12 July 2024.
While the Act is already in effect, its full implementation will happen in phases, with all rules expected to be fully applied by 2 August 2026. This means that if your business offers or uses AI in the EU, regardless of where it is based, you need to act now to comply with this landmark regulation and stay ahead of new AI rules.
Understanding the EU AI Act
The EU AI Act introduces a new regulatory framework designed to classify AI systems into four distinct risk categories: minimal risk, limited risk, high risk, and unacceptable risk. This risk-based approach ensures that oversight is appropriate to the level of risk, while still encouraging innovation.
- Minimal Risk (MR): AI systems with little to no risk, such as spam filters or video game bots, face minimal regulation.
- Limited Risk (LR): Systems like chatbots or deepfakes must follow transparency rules to inform users when they are interacting with AI.
- High Risk (HR): AI systems used in sensitive areas like healthcare, transport, and education must undergo rigorous assessments, data reviews, and human oversight.
- Unacceptable Risk (UR): Certain AI applications, like social scoring, are banned due to their potential harm to individual rights.
The EU AI Act’s Goals: Trust, Safety, and Innovation
The EU AI Act has three key goals: ensuring safety and fairness, promoting transparency, and encouraging innovation.
It requires high-risk AI systems to go through detailed risk assessments and use high-quality data to reduce bias and keep systems safe. This helps build public trust in AI. The Act also focuses on AI policy and governance, ensuring that user rights are prioritized, and individuals are informed when interacting with AI systems. This approach is all about making AI safer and more transparent, while also accelerating innovation.
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Streamline EU AI Act Compliance with Scytale
With Scytale’s AI-powered compliance platform, businesses can confidently meet EU AI Act requirements alongside other key security and data privacy frameworks – all in one place.
Whether you’re working toward compliance, improving your AI processes, or staying ahead of AI regulations, Scytale simplifies the journey by automating critical compliance processes such as risk assessments, evidence collection, continuous control monitoring, user access reviews, and more. Our dedicated GRC team and AI GRC Agent, Scy, are here to guide you every step of the way, helping your business stay competitive and ready for whatever changes arise in AI governance.
As the EU AI Act raises the bar for responsible AI, Scytale makes it easy for businesses to stay compliant while building trust.
