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AI Security Assessment & Planning

Review security, privacy, access-control, data-handling, and operational risks for proposed or existing AI systems.

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Security Considerations for AI Projects

We help identify relevant risks, requirements, and potential controls for a defined AI use case. Penetration testing, managed monitoring, incident response, and other operational security services are provided only when separately agreed in writing.

Model Protection

Review model-access, intellectual-property, integrity, and adversarial-risk considerations.

Data Privacy

Review sensitive-data handling, access controls, encryption requirements, retention, and potential leakage risks.

Adversarial Defense

Identify relevant adversarial scenarios and define proportionate testing, review, and mitigation requirements.

Compliance & Governance

Document governance, oversight, and compliance questions for review by the customer's qualified legal, security, and operational personnel.

AI Security Review Areas

A structured way to identify risks and define appropriate project requirements

01

Data Security

Consider data provenance, access, retention, poisoning risks, and privacy requirements throughout the proposed lifecycle.

02

Model Security

Consider model extraction, inversion, adversarial inputs, integrity, and access-control risks.

03

Infrastructure Security

Secure the underlying infrastructure, APIs, and deployment environments for AI systems.

Understanding the Risks

AI Security Threat Landscape

Modern AI systems face unique security challenges that require specialized protection approaches.

Adversarial Attacks

Sophisticated inputs designed to fool AI models into making incorrect predictions or classifications.

High Severity

Model Stealing

Attackers extract proprietary models through API queries to create replicas without training costs.

High Severity

Data Poisoning

Malicious actors inject corrupted data during training to compromise model performance and behavior.

High Severity

Membership Inference

Attackers determine whether specific data was used in training, potentially revealing sensitive information.

Medium Severity

Model Inversion

Reconstruction of training data from model outputs, potentially exposing confidential information.

Medium Severity

Model Evasion

Techniques that cause AI-based classification or automated-routing systems to produce incorrect or unintended results.

Medium Severity

AI Security Review Areas

Security outcomes depend on system design, data, controls, deployment, and ongoing operations

Review

Threat Exposure

Harden

Data and Access Controls

Test

Failure and Abuse Scenarios

Monitor

Operational Signals

Assessment Topics

Potential AI Security Workstreams

The relevant workstreams depend on the system, data, environment, risk profile, and agreed written scope.

Adversarial Robustness

Assess adversarial scenarios and define appropriate robustness testing and review methods.

Privacy-Preserving AI

Evaluate whether privacy-preserving approaches such as federated learning or differential privacy are appropriate for the use case.

Model Watermarking

Evaluate watermarking or provenance options, together with their technical limitations and evidentiary requirements.

Threat Review

Review relevant AI-specific threat categories, known vulnerabilities, and appropriate sources of current security information.

AI Governance & Compliance

Establish frameworks for ethical AI use, regulatory compliance, and risk management.

Security Testing & Validation

Comprehensive testing for AI system vulnerabilities and security weaknesses before deployment.

Our Process

AI Security Engagement Process

Custom engagements may follow this process. Included stages and responsibilities are confirmed in a separate written scope.

1

Threat Assessment

We review available system information to identify relevant risks, assumptions, and areas requiring further specialist testing.

2

Security Architecture Design

When included in scope, we document proposed controls across data, models, infrastructure, access, and operations.

3

Implementation & Integration

Control implementation and integration may be provided under a separately defined custom development scope.

4

Testing & Validation

Testing methods and qualified providers are selected according to the agreed scope. Penetration testing is not included unless expressly stated in writing.

5

Monitoring & Detection

Monitoring and detection requirements can be designed as part of a separately scoped implementation project.

6

Ongoing Maintenance

Ongoing maintenance or security support is available only under a separate written scope, service period, and responsibility model.

Practical Risk Areas

AI Security for Business Workflows

Examples of common AI-enabled workflows where access control, data handling, testing, monitoring, and human oversight should be designed into the solution.

Internal Knowledge Assistant Security

Internal Knowledge Assistants

Assess source permissions, user access, retrieval boundaries, output logging, and confidential-data exposure risks in internal knowledge tools.

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Document Workflow Security

Document Workflow Security

Review document access, retention, extraction validation, integration permissions, and human-review controls for AI-assisted intake and routing.

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Customer Support Automation Security

Customer Support Assistants

Evaluate prompt-injection, account-access, data-exposure, response-quality, and escalation controls for support knowledge and response-drafting systems.

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Review the Security Requirements for Your AI Project

Contact us to discuss an assessment or a separately scoped implementation project.

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