How to govern OpenAI
A step-by-step guide to governing OpenAI with Rencore: detect with 32 policies, review with 11 reports, and remediate with 8 automations.
Governing OpenAI means keeping its access, configuration, and lifecycle under continuous control rather than reacting after something breaks. Rencore governs OpenAI with 32 pre-built policies, 11 reports, and 8 automations, so teams can detect risk, review posture, and remediate with an audit trail. The steps below turn that coverage into a repeatable routine.
Steps
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Inventory OpenAI
Connect OpenAI and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.
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Detect with policies
Turn on the pre-built policies that cover OpenAI to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.
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Review by owner and severity
Use the OpenAI reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.
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Remediate and automate
Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.
Recommended OpenAI policies
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full OpenAI catalog on the OpenAI connector page.
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External (guest) user
External guest accounts are a common attack vector, raising the likelihood of risky access
Severity: High -
Assistant is live and callable
Provisioned assistants are API-callable AI surfaces, raising the likelihood that any weakness is exploited
Severity: Medium -
Project API key is live (recently used)
Recently used project API keys are live credentials, raising the likelihood that a weakness leads to an incident
Severity: Medium -
Admin API key is live (recently used)
Recently used admin API keys are live, organization-wide credentials, raising the likelihood of serious impact
Severity: High -
Project is live (active)
Active, non-archived projects are reachable and in use, raising the likelihood that an issue manifests
Severity: Medium -
File never expires
Files with no expiry persist and stay reachable, raising the likelihood that sensitive content is exposed over time
Severity: Medium -
ChatKit thread is active
Active threads are live, ongoing conversations, raising the likelihood that a content or data issue occurs
Severity: Medium -
OpenAI Organizations with too less owners
Detects organizations that has less than 2 owners
Severity: High -
OpenAI Organizations with too many owners
Detects organizations that has more than 5 owners
Severity: High -
OpenAI Project with too less owners
Detects projects with less than 2 owners
Severity: Medium -
OpenAI Project with too many owners
Detects projects with more than 10 owners
Severity: High -
OpenAI agent conversation with malicious request
Detects a chat which might be used to extract sensitive information
Severity: High
