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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 Appoints Chloé Messdaghi as Head of Threat Intelligence
HiddenLayer, the leading security provider for artificial intelligence (AI) models and assets, has welcomed Chloé Messdaghi as its Head of Threat Intelligence. She is focused on sharing the latest Security for AI research, building bridges between ML developers, Security Researchers, Data Scientists, and the CISO communities, and driving growth of the Security for AI category through education.
Messdaghi Brings Proven Expertise and Diverse Background to Elevate Security Practices
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 30, 2024 -- HiddenLayer, the leading security provider for artificial intelligence (AI) models and assets, has welcomed Chloé Messdaghi as its Head of Threat Intelligence. She is focused on sharing the latest Security for AI research, building bridges between ML developers, Security Researchers, Data Scientists, and the CISO communities, and driving growth of the Security for AI category through education.
Messdaghi brings with her a proven track record of advising and developing solutions and strategies that have driven vast improvements in security teams. She has extensive knowledge of the industry, coming from multiple tenures in security-based roles, including within security for AI. With a background in politics, working for the Office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and as a volunteer for the United Nations, Messdaghi brings a unique perspective to the job.
"We are thrilled to bring Chloé on to drive growth not only for HiddenLayer but the category as a whole," said Chris Sestito, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at HiddenLayer. “Her ability to tap into the MLOps community and drive growth will be invaluable to the HiddenLayer mission.”
Messdaghi has won numerous awards during her career, including Cybersecurity Woman of the Year, Cybersecurity Advocate of the Year, and has been named a Power Player in the Cybersecurity industry by both SC Media's Women in IT Security and Business Insider. She serves as a board member for The Diana Initiative and is an Advisory Board Member for the Election Security Research Forum.
"I am incredibly excited to join HiddenLayer and expand my ability to truly impact the security for AI category," said Messdaghi. "With this new role, I will be able to accelerate AI/ML adoption in a proactive and sustainable way by interacting with the communities at every stage of the ML Ops Lifecycle.”
Her research, op-eds, and commentary have been featured in numerous outlets, including Forbes, Business Insider, Bloomberg, and TechRepublic. She holds a bachelor's degree in international relations from the University of California at Davis and a MSc in Politics from the University of Edinburgh.
About HiddenLayer
HiddenLayer, a Gartner-recognized AI Application Security company, helps enterprises safeguard the machine learning models behind their most important products with a comprehensive security platform. Only HiddenLayer offers turnkey security for AI that does not add unnecessary complexity to models and does not require access to raw data and algorithms. Founded in March of 2022 by experienced security and ML professionals, HiddenLayer is based in Austin, Texas. For additional information, including product updates and the latest research reports, visit www.hiddenlayer.com.
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HiddenLayer Launches Channel Partner Program to Secure AI and MLOps Lifecycle
HiddenLayer, the leading security provider for artificial intelligence (AI) models and assets, today announced a new partner program to empower enterprises with complete AI protection including rapid threat detection and security across the entire MLOps lifecycle.
HiddenLayer bolsters its offerings after earning a spot on the CRN® 2023 Stellar Startups List
AUSTIN, Texas - January 23, 2024 - HiddenLayer, the leading security provider for artificial intelligence (AI) models and assets, today announced a new partner program to empower enterprises with complete AI protection including rapid threat detection and security across the entire MLOps lifecycle.
“Our Channel Partner Program is designed to drive innovation by allowing partners to introduce security for AI to their customers, helping to educate more businesses about a new threat landscape,” said Rebecca Cahak, Head of Channel, HiddenLayer. “By leveraging this new offering, partners will ensure margin and deal protection, leverage incentives, access flexible and easy-to-use training tools, demo environments, and proof of value tools to drive success.”
The Channel Partner Program allows partners to seamlessly onboard while providing predictable, transparent pricing and flexible licensing models, and a first-of-its-kind unobtrusive, automated, scalable Artificial Intelligence Security (AISec) Platform. Partners will be able to educate customers on a new threat landscape and provide the solutions they need to protect their AI, and competitive edge, build stronger relationships, and establish their team as AI leaders for their customers.
"The HiddenLayer line of products is an important component in our AI security service offerings,” said Matt Keating, Head of AI Security at Booz Allen Hamilton. “We are excited to continue to strengthen our strategic partnership with the HiddenLayer team, furthering our ability for joint strategy and co-solutioning.”
HiddenLayer aims to optimize its current partner network, enhancing it through streamlined support and collaborative offerings. There will be three tiers for the program, Covert, Concealed, and Clandestine, so customers can work together with HiddenLayer to achieve the best-shared outcome. Each tier includes pricing discounts, free online training for sales, and technical enablement and security for AI marketing partnerships. Concealed includes free on-site training and performance incentive programs for extra financial success. Clandestine includes everything previously mentioned, with the addition of account mapping, executive security research briefings, and more.
“By joining HiddenLayer’s partner program, we’re enabling customers to safeguard against constantly evolving cybersecurity risks,” said Rick Echevarria, Vice President and General Manager, Intel Security Center of Excellence. “We are now able to provide a scalable security solution for AI and help more businesses foster the acceleration of safer AI adoption.”
Additionally, HiddenLayer recently announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, named HiddenLayer to its 2023 Stellar Startups list. This annual list, previously known as CRN Emerging Vendors, recognizes fast-rising technology manufacturers committed to delivering leading-edge solutions that propel innovation and growth in the IT channel.
Learn more about HiddenLayer’s Channel Partner Program here.
About HiddenLayer
HiddenLayer, a Gartner-recognized AI Application Security company, helps enterprises safeguard the machine learning models behind their most important products with a comprehensive security platform. Only HiddenLayer offers turnkey security for AI that does not add unnecessary complexity to models and does not require access to raw data and algorithms. Founded in March of 2022 by experienced security and ML professionals, HiddenLayer is based in Austin, Texas. For additional information, including product updates and the latest research reports, visit www.hiddenlayer.com.
Contacts
Hannah Williams
SutherlandGold for HiddenLayer
hiddenlayer@sutherlandgold.com
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HiddenLayer is a proud participant in the Microsoft Security Copilot Partner Private Preview
Today announced its participation in the Microsoft Security Copilot Partner Private Preview. HiddenLayer was selected based on their proven experience with Microsoft Security technologies, willingness to explore and provide feedback on cutting edge functionality, and close relationship with Microsoft.
AUSTIN, Texas - January 9, 2024 - HiddenLayer today announced its participation in the Microsoft Security Copilot Partner Private Preview. HiddenLayer was selected based on their proven experience with Microsoft Security technologies, willingness to explore and provide feedback on cutting edge functionality, and close relationship with Microsoft.
“AI is one of the defining technologies of our time and has the potential to drive meaningful, step-change progress in cybersecurity,” said Ann Johnson, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Security Business Development. “Security is a team sport, and we are pleased to work alongside our Security Copilot partner ecosystem to deliver customers solutions that enhance cyber defenses and make the promise of AI real.”
HiddenLayer is working with Microsoft product teams to help shape Security Copilot product development in several ways, including validation and refinement of new and upcoming scenarios, providing feedback on product development and operations to be incorporated into future product releases, and validation and feedback of APIs to assist with Security Copilot extensibility.
“Microsoft has long been a champion of cybersecurity and AI, and HiddenLayer shares a common commitment to securing AI and machine learning models through the application of traditional cybersecurity techniques,” said Abigail Maines, Chief Revenue Officer, HiddenLayer. “Our participation in the Security Copilot’s capabilities will bolster the protection of enterprises’ most important technology, and give us the opportunity to influence and shape product development throughout the space.”
Security Copilot is the first AI-powered security product that enables security professionals to respond to threats quickly, process signals at machine speed, and assess risk exposure in minutes. It combines an advanced large language model (LLM) with a security-specific model that is informed by Microsoft's unique global threat intelligence and more than 65 trillion daily signals.
About HiddenLayer:
HiddenLayer, a Gartner-recognized AI Application Security company, helps enterprises safeguard the machine learning models behind their most important products with a comprehensive security platform. Only HiddenLayer offers turnkey security for AI that does not add unnecessary complexity to models and does not require access to raw data and algorithms. Founded in March of 2022 by experienced security and ML professionals, HiddenLayer is based in Austin, Texas. For additional information, including product updates and the latest research reports, visit www.hiddenlayer.com.
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HiddenLayer Partners with CVE Program as a Numbering Authority to Secure AI
The leading security provider for artificial intelligence (AI) models and assets, proudly announces its partnership with the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®) Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA), reinforcing our commitment to enhancing AI system security.
Underscoring commitment to elevating Security for AI standards
AUSTIN, Texas — Dec 19, 2023 — HiddenLayer, the leading security provider for artificial intelligence (AI) models and assets, proudly announces its partnership with the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®) Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA), reinforcing our commitment to enhancing AI system security.
HiddenLayer joins over 300 organizations across 37 countries, authorized by the CVE Program to assign CVE IDs to vulnerabilities within their specific scopes, enabling the efficient collaboration of multiple parties to address known AI security risks.
Each CNA has a specific Scope of responsibility for vulnerability identification and publishing. HiddenLayer is now authorized to assign CVEs to new zero-day vulnerabilities in both third-party software that does not fall under the scope of another CNA, and within their own products. This enables HiddenLayer in its mission to help protect the world’s most valuable technology, Artificial Intelligence.
“Being acknowledged as a CNA underscores HiddenLayer’s dedication and responsibility towards enhancing security for AI,” said Tom Bonner, VP of Research of HiddenLayer. “With the recent proliferation of machine learning and artificial intelligence, it is imperative that organizations have a complete awareness of the risks posed by insecure libraries, applications, and services. By researching and reporting vulnerabilities in critical ML and AI systems, HiddenLayer is underlining our commitment to help advance the security posture for the entire industry.”
The CVE Program, sponsored by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), aims to identify, define, and catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The CVE Program is community-driven and is steered by an international board of industry, academic, and government representatives.
HiddenLayer offers a comprehensive suite of products through its AISec Platform to safeguard AI models from adversarial attacks, vulnerabilities, and malicious code injections. In addition, HiddenLayer collaborates with clients, providing consulting services leveraging deep domain expertise in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, reverse engineering, and threat research.
HiddenLayer’s Adversarial Machine Learning (AdvML) experts empower cybersecurity teams and data scientists with knowledge, insight, and tools to integrate security into the MLOps Pipeline, understand the latest adversarial AI tactics and countermeasures, map the current AI threat landscape, develop high-impact attack scenarios, validate AI environments, and implement operational security controls that satisfy both data science and security teams’ needs.
About the CVE Program
The mission of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®) Program is to identify, define, and catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. There is one CVE Record for each vulnerability in the catalog. The vulnerabilities are discovered then assigned and published by organizations from around the world that have partnered with the CVE Program. Partners publish CVE Records to communicate consistent descriptions of vulnerabilities. Information technology and cybersecurity professionals use CVE Records to ensure they are discussing the same issue, and to coordinate their efforts to prioritize and address the vulnerabilities.
About HiddenLayer
HiddenLayer, a Gartner-recognized AI Application Security company, helps enterprises safeguard the machine learning models behind their most important products with a comprehensive security platform. Only HiddenLayer offers turnkey security for AI that does not add unnecessary complexity to models and does not require access to raw data and algorithms. Founded in March of 2022 by experienced security and ML professionals, HiddenLayer is based in Austin, Texas. For additional information, including product updates and the latest research reports, visit www.hiddenlayer.com.
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HiddenLayer Attains SOC 2 Type II Compliance: Elevating Data Security for AI
HiddenLayer is proud to announce the achievement of Service Organization Control 2 (SOC 2) Type II compliance. This milestone underscores our commitment to upholding rigorous standards in security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy, aligning with our core mission to secure Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning across enterprise and the public sector.
HiddenLayer is proud to announce the achievement of Service Organization Control 2 (SOC 2) Type II compliance. This milestone underscores our commitment to upholding rigorous standards in security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy, aligning with our core mission to secure Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning across enterprise and the public sector.
This accomplishment, shortly following our Series A funding, emphasizes our dedication to safeguarding our customer’s data from the outset through robust operational practices.
Understanding SOC 2
SOC 2 is an industry standard set by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and a trusted framework for customers and third-party auditors to evaluate a service organization's information management systems' security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.
HiddenLayer, alongside its Machine Learning Detection & Response platform, has successfully met SOC 2 standards, validating the design and operational effectiveness of our controls in security, availability, and confidentiality.
SOC 2 compliance is more than a milestone. It resonates with our customers, partners, and investors. It enhances our ability to form partnerships with organizations prioritizing data security and strengthens our capacity to continue to protect organizations from adversarial AI attacks.
What’s Next?
HiddenLayer remains committed to surpassing industry standards. We will continue implementing best practices to prioritize sensitive information protection across our data, systems, and confidentiality processes.
In essence, SOC 2 compliance signifies HiddenLayer's dedication to setting the benchmark for Data Security for AI, reinforcing the trust our stakeholders place in us.
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HiddenLayer Awarded Phase 2 SBIR Contract by the U.S. Department of Defense
The leading security provider for artificial intelligence (AI) models and assets, announces it has been selected by AFWERX for a SBIR Direct-to-Phase II contract in the amount of $1.25 million focused on implementing their Machine Learning Security (MLSec) Platform to address the most pressing challenges in the Department of the Air Force (DAF).
Machine learning security platform will secure government AI systems
AUSTIN, Texas — Oct. 24, 2023 — HiddenLayer, the leading security provider for artificial intelligence (AI) models and assets, announces it has been selected by AFWERX for a SBIR Direct-to-Phase II contract in the amount of $1.25 million focused on implementing their Machine Learning Security (MLSec) Platform to address the most pressing challenges in the Department of the Air Force (DAF).
The Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX have partnered to streamline the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) process by accelerating the small business experience through faster proposal to award timelines, changing the pool of potential applicants by expanding opportunities to small business and eliminating bureaucratic overhead by continually implementing process improvement changes in contract execution.
The DAF began offering the Open Topic SBIR/STTR program in 2018 which expanded the range of innovations the DAF funded and now on September 22, 2023, HiddenLayer will deploy their innovative security solution to further strengthen the national defense of the United States of America.
"HiddenLayer is honored to continue our partnership with the US Air Force through our second SBIR contract award. This partnership brings our cutting-edge threat detection capabilities to specific Air Force scenarios in operation and will ensure that our military’s use of next-generation technology is secure. Everyone at HiddenLayer is committed to ensuring our government's AI is secure today and always," said Chris Sestito, CEO and co-founder of HiddenLayer.
The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Air Force, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. government.
About HiddenLayer
HiddenLayer, a Gartner-recognized AI Application Security company, helps enterprises safeguard the machine learning models behind their most important products with a comprehensive security platform. Only HiddenLayer offers turnkey AI security that does not add unnecessary complexity to models and does not require access to raw data and algorithms. Founded in March of 2022 by experienced security and ML professionals, HiddenLayer is based in Austin, Texas. For additional information, including product updates and the latest research reports, visit www.hiddenlayer.com.
About Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
Sole organization leading the planning and execution of U.S. Air Force & U.S. Space Force science & technology programs. Orchestrates a world-wide government, industry & academia coalition in the discovery, development & delivery of a wide range of revolutionary technology. Provides leading-edge warfighting capabilities keeping air, space and cyberspace forces the world's best. Employs 10,800 military, civilian and contractor personnel at 17 research sites executing an annual $4B budget. For more information, visit: www.afresearchlab.com.
About AFWERX
The innovation arm of the DAF and a directorate within the Air Force Research Laboratory brings cutting edge American ingenuity from small businesses and start-ups to address the most pressing challenges of the DAF. Employs approximately 325 military, civilian and contractor personnel at six hubs and sites executing an annual $1.4B budget. Since 2019, has executed 4,671 contracts worth more than $2B to strengthen the U.S. defense industrial base and drive faster technology transition to operational capability. For more information, visit: www.afwerx.com.
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HiddenLayer Appoints Malcolm Harkins as Chief Security and Trust Officer
The leading security provider for artificial intelligence (AI) models and assets, has welcomed Malcolm Harkins as its Chief Security and Trust Officer. He is responsible for enabling business growth through trusted infrastructure, systems, and peer outreach to evangelize best practices for mitigating AI risk
Harkins brings more than two decades of experience in risk management and security
AUSTIN, Texas — Oct. 17, 2023 — HiddenLayer, the leading security provider for artificial intelligence (AI) models and assets, has welcomed Malcolm Harkins as its Chief Security and Trust Officer. He is responsible for enabling business growth through trusted infrastructure, systems, and peer outreach to evangelize best practices for mitigating AI risk.
Harkins brings more than two decades of experience in information security leadership roles at top technology companies, including Intel, Cymatic, Cylance, and others. Earlier this year, he was named the Top Chief Security and Trust Officer by Cyber Defense Magazine. He is also an independent board member and advisor to several organizations, including TrustMAPP, Cyvatar, and the Cyber Risk Alliance.
“Malcolm is one of the most innovative security leaders in the industry, and I’ve seen first-hand why he’s the right person for this job,” said Chris Sestito, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at HiddenLayer. “Malcolm’s passion for security and his track record with the public sector will help advance HiddenLayer’s mission to protect enterprise and our nation’s most critical AI systems.”
Harkins has testified before the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. He is a Fellow with the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, a non-partisan think tank providing cybersecurity expertise to the House of Representatives, Senate, and various federal agencies. Earlier this year, Harkins served on a task force led by the Center for Strategic International Studies to provide direction and leadership for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s evolving mission to protect the federal government.
“The recent revolution of AI innovation can be a great advancement for society, but only if we ensure those systems are secured,” said Harkins. “HiddenLayer’s approach to protecting AI systems is crucial to enabling them. Helping organizations detect suspicious activity and prevent attacks on AI assets allows them to fully harness this powerful technology.”
Harkins has written multiple books on risk management, information security, and IT and earned awards from the RSA Conference, ISC2, Computerworld, and the Security Advisor Alliance. He previously taught at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and Susquehanna University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California at Irvine and an MBA in finance and accounting from the University of California at Davis.
About HiddenLayer
HiddenLayer, a Gartner-recognized AI Application Security company, helps enterprises safeguard the machine learning models behind their most important products with a comprehensive security platform. Only HiddenLayer offers turnkey AI security that does not add unnecessary complexity to models and does not require access to raw data and algorithms. Founded in March of 2022 by experienced security and ML professionals, HiddenLayer is based in Austin, Texas. For additional information, including product updates and the latest research reports, visit www.hiddenlayer.com.
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