HiddenLayer in the News

Austin, TX - August 27, 2024 – HiddenLayer today announced the appointment of Mike Bruchanski as Chief Product Officer. Bruchanski brings over two decades of product and engineering experience to HiddenLayer, where he will drive the company’s product strategy and pipeline, and accelerate its mission to support customers’ adoption of generative and predictive AI.

“Mike’s breadth of experience across the B2B enterprise software lifecycle will be critical as HiddenLayer executes on its mission to protect the machine learning models behind today’s most important products,” said Chris Sestito, CEO and Co-founder of HiddenLayer. “His expertise will play a key role in accelerating our product roadmap and enhancing our ability to defend enterprises’ AI models against various threats.”

Bruchanski joins HiddenLayer from Elementary, where he was Vice President of Product, driving the advancement of the company's offerings and market growth. Previously, he held similar roles at Blue Lava, Inc., where he shaped the product vision and strategy, and at Cylance, where he managed the company’s portfolio of OEM products and partners.

With a strong foundation in engineering, holding degrees from Villanova University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Mike combines a technical background with experience in scaling organizations’ product strategies. His leadership will be invaluable as HiddenLayer continues to innovate and protect AI-driven systems.

“The acceleration of AI has introduced new vulnerabilities and risks in cybersecurity. I’m excited to join the talented team at HiddenLayer to develop solutions that meet the complex challenges facing enterprise customers today,”

said Bruchanski.

About HiddenLayer

HiddenLayer is the leading provider of security for AI. Its security platform helps enterprises safeguard the machine learning models behind their most important products. HiddenLayer is the only company to offer turnkey security for AI that does not add unnecessary complexity to models and does not require access to raw data and algorithms. Founded by a team with deep roots in security and ML, HiddenLayer aims to protect enterprise AI from inference, bypass, extraction attacks, and model theft. The company is backed by a group of strategic investors, including M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, Moore Strategic Ventures, Booz Allen Ventures, IBM Ventures, and Capital One Ventures.

Austin, TX - August 06, 2024 – HiddenLayer today announced it has joined the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI), a new initiative aimed at tackling the cybersecurity risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI). Hosted by the OASIS global standards body, CoSAI is an open-source initiative designed to give all practitioners and developers the guidance and tools they need to create Secure-by-Design AI systems. HiddenLayer will be engaged in all of CoSAI’s priority initiatives, and an active part of its ecosystem to share open-source methodologies, standardized frameworks, and tools.  

“AI has never been easier to develop, use, and implement within organizations. As deployment continues to surge, so does the need to adopt common security standards and best practices in AI security,” said Malcolm Harkins, Chief Security & Trust Officer, HiddenLayer. “HiddenLayer is proud to join the CoSAI in our shared mission to support the widespread adoption of AI security principles.”

The coalition’s initial focus will be on three main areas:

• Software supply chain security for AI systems: enhancing composition and provenance tracking to secure AI applications.
  
• Preparing defenders for a changing cybersecurity landscape: addressing investments and integration challenges in AI and classical systems.
  
• AI security governance: developing best practices and risk assessment frameworks for AI security.

Housed under OASIS Open, the international standards and open source consortium, CoSAI includes founding members such as Amazon, Anthropic, Chainguard, Cisco, Cohere, GenLab, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, PayPal, and Wiz.

“As a founding member and co-chair of CoSAI, I am thrilled to have HiddenLayer join us,” said Omar Santos, Security & Trust Organization, Cisco Systems. “With HiddenLayer’s technical expertise and collaboration, we are eager to help organizations around the world to address emerging threats more effectively.” 

For more information about CoSAI, visit https://www.coalitionforsecureai.org/. 

About HiddenLayer

HiddenLayer is the leading provider of security for AI. Its security platform helps enterprises safeguard the machine learning models behind their most important products. HiddenLayer is the only company to offer turnkey security for AI that does not add unnecessary complexity to models and does not require access to raw data and algorithms. Founded by a team with deep roots in security and ML, HiddenLayer aims to protect enterprise AI from inference, bypass, extraction attacks, and model theft. The company is backed by a group of strategic investors, including M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, Moore Strategic Ventures, Booz Allen Ventures, IBM Ventures, and Capital One Ventures.

HiddenLayer is proud to announce its participation in the Secure AI project, a new research initiative by the Center for Threat-Informed Defense. Through this collaborative project, HiddenLayer will advance its mission to protect AI-enabled systems by contributing technical expertise and resources to the MITRE ATLAS™.

"We are excited to be part of this project and contribute to the expansion of the ATLAS framework,” said Tom Bonner, Vice President of Research at HiddenLayer. “Community-driven knowledge bases like ATLAS are essential resources for securing AI-enabled systems and supply chains against attacks."

MITRE ATLAS is a knowledge base of adversarial machine learning tactics, techniques, and case studies designed to help cybersecurity professionals, data scientists, and their companies stay up to date on the latest attacks and defenses against adversarial machine learning. The ATLAS matrix is modeled after and complementary to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, which is well-known and used in the cybersecurity industry to understand attack chains and adversary behaviors.

HiddenLayer joins a diverse group of industry leaders from communications, finance, healthcare, and technology sectors, such as Microsoft Corporation, Booz Allen Hamilton,  Intel, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., who are contributing their expertise and resources to develop this vital community resource.

The Secure AI project aims to:

• Expand the ATLAS knowledge base through incident sharing metrics and mechanisms.
• Document new case studies within ATLAS that address vulnerabilities in industry-relevant systems, including generative AI.
• Describe new relevant mitigations based on documented AI incidents.
• Align ATLAS tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) with the current version of MITRE ATT&CK TTPs.

"We welcome HiddenLayer to the Secure AI project and know their deep expertise in AI model security research will be invaluable in enhancing the ATLAS and addressing the unique challenges posed by AI-enabled systems,” said Jon Baker, Director of the Center for Threat-Informed Defense.

HiddenLayer's participation in this initiative aligns with its core mission to secure AI models and contribute to collaborative research communities. By joining forces with MITRE and other industry leaders, HiddenLayer aims to bolster the defenses of AI systems globally.

For more information about the Secure AI research project, visit the Center for Threat-Informed Defense.

About HiddenLayer

HiddenLayer is the leading provider of security for AI. Its security platform helps enterprises safeguard the machine learning models behind their most important products. HiddenLayer is the only company to offer turnkey security for AI that does not add unnecessary complexity to models and does not require access to raw data and algorithms. Founded by a team with deep roots in security and ML, HiddenLayer aims to protect enterprise AI from inference, bypass, extraction attacks, and model theft. The company is backed by a group of strategic investors, including M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, Moore Strategic Ventures, Booz Allen Ventures, IBM Ventures, and Capital One Ventures.

About the Center for Threat-Informed Defense

The Center is a non-profit, privately funded research and development organization operated by MITRE Engenuity. The Center’s mission is to advance the state of the art and the state of the practice in threat-informed defense globally. Comprised of participant organizations from around the globe with highly sophisticated security teams, the Center builds on MITRE ATT&CK®, an important foundation for threat-informed defense used by security teams and vendors in their enterprise security operations. Because the Center operates for the public good, outputs of its research and development are available publicly and for the benefit of all.

Microsoft Azure AI Deploys HiddenLayer Model Scanner to Protect Customers Using Open Source Models

Austin, TX - May 21, 2024 — HiddenLayer, the leading security provider for artificial intelligence (AI) models and assets, today announced Microsoft Azure AI as a new user of its Model Scanner. The Model Scanner will scan third-party and open-source models in the model collection curated by Azure AI, providing verification that they are free from cybersecurity vulnerabilities, malware, and other signs of tampering.

"We strongly advocate for the parallel acceleration of AI innovation and security solutions," said Chris Sestito, CEO and Co-founder of HiddenLayer. "With the integration of our Model Scanner into the Azure AI catalog, we're dedicated to establishing a secure avenue for the broad adoption of AI technologies."

Open-source models are favored for their affordability and flexibility, but they can be susceptible to malicious exploitation.  By validating that open-source models have been scanned by Model Scanner, Azure AI can help security teams streamline AI deployment processes and empower development teams to fine-tune or deploy open models safely and with greater confidence.

“We see a need for proactive security solutions that allow developers to deploy AI models safely–and feel confident fine-tuning these models with their own proprietary data,” said Sarah Bird, Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI at Microsoft. “Integrating HiddenLayer into our model onboarding process is the validation that our customers need as they drive competitive differentiation with AI.”

HiddenLayer Model Scanner recognizes all major machine learning model formats and frameworks and analyzes their structure, layers, tensors, functions, and modules to identify suspicious or malicious code, vulnerabilities, and integrity issues. Key capabilities enabled by HiddenLayer in the Azure AI model catalog include:

• Malware Analysis: Scans AI models for embedded malicious code that could serve as an infection vector and launchpad for malware
• Vulnerability Assessment: Scans for common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) and zero-day vulnerabilities targeting AI models
• Backdoor detection: Scans model functionality for evidence of supply chain attacks and backdoors such as arbitrary code execution and network calls
• Model Integrity: Analyzes an AI model’s layers, components and tensors to detect tampering or corruption

Read more about the benefits for Azure AI customers in the Microsoft Blog.

View HiddenLayer Model Scanner on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

About HiddenLayer

HiddenLayer is the leading provider of security for AI. Its security platform helps enterprises safeguard the machine learning models behind their most important products. HiddenLayer is the only company to offer turnkey security for AI that does not add unnecessary complexity to models and does not require access to raw data and algorithms. Founded by a team with deep roots in security and ML, HiddenLayer aims to protect enterprise AI from inference, bypass, extraction attacks, and model theft. The company is backed by a group of strategic investors, including M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund, Moore Strategic Ventures, Booz Allen Ventures, IBM Ventures, and Capital One Ventures.

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