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ServiceNow launches Control Tower Alliance to help enterprises adopt AI safely at scale
HiddenLayer joins ServiceNow’s Control Tower Alliance as a founding member, helping enterprises secure AI and address emerging agentic threats as they scale.
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), the Super Intelligence Control Tower for business reinvention, today announced the ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance, a new ecosystem of leading companies in AI, cloud infrastructure, security, governance, value measurement and token metering, who will work with ServiceNow to help customers adopt trusted enterprise AI safely at scale. Founding members of the new program include Anthropic, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cisco, HiddenLayer, Kong, NVIDIA, Okta, OpenAI, Stripe, WitnessAI, and Zenity. Members will help ServiceNow customers turn AI into business impact – discovered, observed, and governed through the ServiceNow Super Intelligence Control Tower.
The ServiceNow Super Intelligence Control Tower has one clear mission: give customers a centralized control plane to discover, secure, govern, observe, and measure enterprise AI. The Control Tower Alliance extends this mission with AI innovators, cloud providers, security companies, governance platforms, and technology partners aiming to help customers safely put AI to work for people. The Control Tower Alliance will coexist alongside the ServiceNow Store and Workflow Data Network Partner Passport programs.
“As AI agents have exploded in number and capacity, it’s become clear that no single solution, no matter how powerful, can see everything, protect anything on its own. AI governance requires an ecosystem of partners willing to innovate together on an open platform to protect every vulnerable point in an enterprise,” said Amit Zavery, president, chief product officer and chief operating officer, ServiceNow. “Through the Control Tower Alliance, we are working with industry leaders to build governance and security that keeps pace with innovation to give customers the visibility, control and confidence to transform with AI.”
The Control Tower Alliance is designed for partners to work with ServiceNow in three ways:
- Build together: Partners and ServiceNow will collaborate on building differentiated solutions that run on the Super Intelligence Control Tower and are easy for customers to deploy. For partners, this means building on the platform enterprises already use to govern AI, rather than offering a standalone tool that customers have to integrate themselves.
- Deliver with governance: Curated, pre-integrated solutions pass ServiceNow qualification and certification, and shared standards for agent identity and safety guardrails keep AI accountable to the business.
- Sell and lead together: Select partners and ServiceNow collaborate to integrate their solutions with Control Tower, to create unique offerings that are sold and supported globally by ServiceNow, so that partners don’t have to build a path to enterprise buyers alone.
For customers, the alliance means a curated set of AI solutions that have passed ServiceNow qualification, certification and integration testing before they are listed. Customers can adopt integrated solutions faster, with governance in place from the start, and scale AI with confidence.
Founding Member Comments
- “Enterprises are moving rapidly from AI pilots to production, and security and governance must be built in from the start,” said DJ Sampath, SVP and GM of AI Software and Platform, Cisco.“By connecting Cisco AI Defense with ServiceNow, customers can now bring AI asset visibility and security findings and ultimately drive remediation. We are pleased to join the ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance as a launch partner, and together, we’re helping organizations scale AI securely.”
- "As enterprises move AI from experimentation into mission-critical business operations, security must be foundational to that transformation. HiddenLayer brings purpose-built, complete AI security to the partnership, while ServiceNow brings the enterprise platform and workflow orchestration needed to turn intelligence into action at scale," said Christopher Sestito, CEO and co-founder, HiddenLayer. "Together, we're helping orgs address emerging agentic threats while building the confidence to deploy AI agents broadly across their business."
- “ServiceNow is bringing the enterprise context and governance needed to scale AI with confidence,” said Augusto Marietti, CEO and co-founder, Kong. “We’re proud to help extend that governance into real-time enforcement across the APIs, models, and tools that AI agents depend on.”
- “As AI agents take on more work, enterprises need to know exactly what they can do and what they can’t,” said Pat Lee, VP of Strategic Partnerships, NVIDIA.“ServiceNow gives agents the workflows and business context to get work done. NVIDIA OpenShell enforces the boundaries at runtime. The Control Tower Alliance brings these technologies together so enterprises can scale agents across the business with clear permissions, visibility and control.”
- "Enterprise AI adoption stalls when organizations lack a central way to cut off a rogue agent's access," said Ely Kahn, chief product officer, Okta."The Control Tower Alliance furthers our ongoing work with ServiceNow, which combines their containment decision layer with Okta's kill switch capability to block new token requests from agents acting beyond their intended scope. Looking ahead, our shared vision is to advance the open standards needed to make a cross-platform kill switch possible, helping our customers revoke an agent’s access across necessary systems without disrupting the broader ecosystem.”
- “AI is changing how enterprises charge for software, with pricing increasingly tied to usage and outcomes,” said Scott Woody, CEO & founder of Metronome, a Stripe product. “We’re joining the Control Tower Alliance to help businesses put those models into practice with reliable billing, real-time visibility into usage, and controls on spending.”
- “The integration of WitnessAI’s unique LLMs designed to understand behavioral intent and ServiceNow Super Intelligence Control Tower brings new levels of AI policy control, usage analytics, and cost controls,” said Dan Graves, Chief Product Officer, WitnessAI. “Behavioral-based prompt routing ensures that human and nonhuman workers are productive without breaking regulations or budgets.”
- “Partnering with ServiceNow gives enterprises the confidence and control to put AI agents to work across the business,” said Ben Kliger, CEO, Zenity.“Zenity pioneered AI Agent Security and continues to define the category, with deep protection and control across the agent lifecycle. ServiceNow Super Intelligence Control Tower extends that security across the enterprise, embedding it into the workflows customers already rely on. As a founding member of the Control Tower Alliance, Zenity is helping shape how enterprises govern, secure and scale the next generation of AI agents.”
Additional Information
More information about the ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance is here.
About ServiceNow
ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) is the Super Intelligence Control Tower for business reinvention. The ServiceNow platform integrates with any model, any cloud, and any data source to orchestrate, govern, and secure work across the agentic enterprise. ServiceNow gives customers the enterprise context and control to build and scale confidently. With more than 100 billion workflows running on the platform each year, ServiceNow helps organizations turn fragmented operations into coordinated, autonomous work for IT, CRM, Security, Employee Experience, and more. Learn how ServiceNow puts AI to work for people at www.servicenow.com.
About HiddenLayer
HiddenLayer protects predictive, generative, and agentic AI applications across the entire AI lifecycle, from discovery and AI supply chain security to attack simulation and runtime protection. Backed by patented technology and industry-leading adversarial AI research, our platform is purpose-built to defend AI systems against evolving threats. HiddenLayer protects intellectual property, helps ensure regulatory compliance, and enables organizations to safely adopt and scale AI with confidence
ServiceNow Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” about the expectations, beliefs, plans, and intentions relating to the ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance. Such statements include statements regarding future product capabilities, integrations, alliance offerings, collaborations with alliance members, and expected benefits to ServiceNow and its customers. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on potentially inaccurate assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expected or implied by the forward-looking statements. If any such risks or uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions prove incorrect, ServiceNow’s results could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements made. ServiceNow undertakes no obligation, and does not intend to update the forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in any forward-looking statements include: (i) delays and unexpected difficulties and expenses in developing, integrating, certifying, and deploying the alliance offerings; (ii) changes in the regulatory landscape related to AI; (iii) challenges associated with collaboration among alliance members and third-party technology providers; and (iv) uncertainty as to whether customer demand and sales will justify the investments in the alliance offerings and related product capabilities. Further information on factors that could affect ServiceNow’s financial and other results is included in the filings ServiceNow makes with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time.
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HiddenLayer Joins Center for Threat-Informed Defense in Research Initiative to Secure AI Systems
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™.
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.
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HiddenLayer Collaborates with Microsoft Azure AI to Enhance Model Security
"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."
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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HiddenLayer Named Winner of Global InfoSec Awards during RSA Conference 2024
“We’re honored to be recognized by Cyber Defense Magazine as the market leader for securing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Models. AI is the most vulnerable technology ever deployed within production systems, and this recognition speaks directly to our mission to protect organizations from the inevitable attacks resulting from the rapid adoption of AI,” said Christopher Sestito, CEO and co-founder of Hiddenlayer.
HiddenLayer Wins Market Leader for Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in 12th Annual Global InfoSec Awards at RSAC 2024
AUSTIN, Texas - May 6, 2024 – HiddenLayer, the leading security provider for artificial intelligence (AI) models and assets, today announced it has been awarded the Market Leader for Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning from Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry’s leading electronic information security magazine.
“We’re honored to be recognized by Cyber Defense Magazine as the market leader for securing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Models. AI is the most vulnerable technology ever deployed within production systems, and this recognition speaks directly to our mission to protect organizations from the inevitable attacks resulting from the rapid adoption of AI,” said Christopher Sestito, CEO and co-founder of Hiddenlayer.
“HiddenLayer embodies three major features we judges look for to become winners: understanding tomorrow’s threats, today, providing a cost-effective solution and innovating in unexpected ways that can help mitigate cyber risk and get one step ahead of the next breach,” said Gary S. Miliefsky, Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine.
HiddenLayer proudly joins a group of prestigious winners located here: http://www.cyberdefenseawards.com/
Join HiddenLayer at RSA Conference 2024, as they celebrate the win on their website and social media channels.
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’s 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 CDM InfoSec Awards
This is Cyber Defense Magazine’s twelfth year of honoring InfoSec innovators from around the Globe. Our submission requirements are for any startup, early stage, later stage, or public companies in the INFORMATION SECURITY (INFOSEC) space who believe they have a unique and compelling value proposition for their product or service. Learn more at www.cyberdefenseawards.com
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