Protect AI Blog

LLM Security

May 13, 2025

Specialized Models Beat Single LLMs for AI Security

As you continue to deploy LLM-powered applications into your enterprise, securing these...

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Red Teaming

May 7, 2025

GPT-4.1 Assessment: Critical Vulnerabilities Exposed

GPT-4.1 Mini earns the highest risk score after latest update Assessment Brief OpenAI has...

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Model Security

April 23, 2025

Introducing Guardian Local Scanning: Streamlined Model Security

At Protect AI, we're committed to empowering you to secure AI models seamlessly within your...

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Model Security

April 23, 2025

Implementing Advanced Model Security for Custom Model Import in Amazon Bedrock

Integrating generative AI into enterprise workflows unlocks tremendous innovation...

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Red Teaming

April 23, 2025

Building Robust LLM Guardrails for DeepSeek-R1 in Amazon Bedrock

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Secure by Design

April 22, 2025

Secure by Design for AI: A Real-World Healthcare Case Study

Fifth and final in a five-part series on implementing Secure by Design principles in AI system...

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Secure by Design

April 16, 2025

Tools and Technologies for Secure by Design AI Systems

This is the fourth in a five-part series on implementing Secure by Design principles in AI...

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Machine Learning

April 16, 2025

Machine Learning Models: A New Attack Vector for an Old Exploit

Machine learning (ML) has seen rapid adoption across industries, enabling advancements in...

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Model Security

April 14, 2025

4M Models Scanned: Hugging Face + Protect AI Partnership Update

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Cybersecurity

April 11, 2025

Security Spotlight: Embracing a Culture of Security at Protect AI

Young companies, growing fast, often consider convenience over security. Prioritizing speed...

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LLM Security

April 8, 2025

MCP Security 101: A New Protocol for Agentic AI

In November 2024, Anthropic introduced Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open source...

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Secure by Design

April 3, 2025

Securing Agentic AI: Where MLSecOps Meets DevSecOps

This is the third in a five-part series on implementing Secure by Design principles in AI...

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Red Teaming

April 2, 2025

Qwen2.5-Max Vulnerability Assessment

Qwen2.5-Max beats DeepSeek-V3 on Security Assessment Brief The model used for this assessment,

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Artificial Intelligence

March 27, 2025

The Expanding Role of Red Teaming in Defending AI Systems

This article was originally published by Ruchir Patwa for Tech News World.

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Adversarial ML

March 27, 2025

A CISO’s Guide to Securing AI Models

This article was originally published by Diana for Help Net Security.

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LLM Security

March 27, 2025

A Step-by-Step Guide to Securing LLM Applications

This article was originally published by Neal for the RSA conference website.

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Secure by Design

March 26, 2025

Building Secure by Design AI Systems: A Defense in Depth

Second in a five-part series on implementing Secure by Design principles in AI system...

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Secure by Design

March 26, 2025

The Evolution of AI Security: Why Secure by Design Matters

First in a five-part series on implementing Secure by Design principles in AI system...

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Red Teaming

February 12, 2025

Automated Red Teaming Scans of Databricks Mosaic AI Model Serving Endpoints Using Protect AI Recon

We are thrilled to announce the integration of Protect AI’s Recon with Databricks Mosaic AI...

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LLM Security

February 10, 2025

Breaking Down LLM Security: 3 Key Risks

Last week, Ruchir Patwa and Neal Swaelens sat down to discuss OWASP’s Top 10 for LLMs. (Didn’t...

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Secure by Design

February 7, 2025

Secure by Design: Why Protect AI Signed CISA's Pledge

I've spent decades watching the cybersecurity landscape evolve, from the early days of viruses...

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Model Security

January 28, 2025

Using Protect AI's Products to Analyze DeepSeek-R1

DeepSeek-AI has released an MIT licensed reasoning model known as DeepSeek-R1, which performs...

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LLM Security

January 28, 2025

Why eBPF is Secure: A Look at the Future Technology in LLM Security

When discussing kernel-level technologies, many recall incidents like the CrowdStrike Falcon...

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MLSecOps

January 8, 2025

MLSecOps: The Foundation of AI/ML Security

Written by Diana Kelley for SC World

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MLSecOps

December 11, 2024

How To Secure AI With MLSecOps

Written by Diana Kelley for TechNewsWorld AI-driven systems have become prime targets for...

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LLM Security

December 6, 2024

Layer’s agentless approach to securing enterprise LLM applications

Large corporations typically rely on cloud providers to serve their large language models,...

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LLM Security

December 4, 2024

How Protect AI is shaping the future of LLM Security at runtime with eBPF

Introduction Since 2024, we’ve witnessed enterprises rapidly adopt LLMs and rush to secure...

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Red Teaming

November 25, 2024

Why Automated Red Teaming is Essential for GenAI Security

The Unique Challenges of Securing GenAI Systems Generative AI (GenAI) has rapidly transformed...

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Model Security

October 25, 2024

Supporting the safe and secure usage of the world's largest AI/ML Model Repository

Protect AI and Hugging Face Partner to Secure the Machine Learning Supply Chain Today, we’re...

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AI ZeroDay

October 23, 2024

4 Ways to Address Zero-Days in AI/ML Security

Written by Dan McInerney for Dark Reading

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LLM Security

October 8, 2024

Out of Line Threat Scanning for LLMs: Some Real-World Examples

Introduction Change is underway at OpenAI. In the wake of a significant leadership shift, the...

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LLM Security

September 27, 2024

RAG Security 101

RAG and Secure Retrieval Imagine LLMs that are able to adapt instantly to new information,...

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LLM Security

August 28, 2024

Why LLMs Are Just the Tip of the AI Security Iceberg

Written by Diana Kelley for Dark Reading

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LLM Security

July 24, 2024

LLM Security: Going Beyond Firewalls

Introduction If 2023 was the opening act for LLMs at the enterprise, then 2024 will be the...

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Red Teaming

July 3, 2024

The Crucial Role of the AI Red Team in Modern Cybersecurity

Introduction In the fourth chapter of navigating AI/ML security concerns, let’s explore...

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Threat Intelligence

June 20, 2024

Navigating Vulnerabilities in the AI Supply Chain

Introduction In the second chapter of navigating AI/ML security concerns, let’s explore Adam...

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Model Security

June 10, 2024

The Trojan Horses Haunting Your AI Models

In the fast-moving world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), ensuring...

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LLM Security

May 30, 2024

AI Agents: Chapter 3 - Practical Approaches to AI Agents Security

Introduction In our last article, we discussed how GPTs or AI Agents’ risk could be boiled...

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Industry News

May 24, 2024

The role of cybersecurity in AI system development

Our CISO, Diana Kelley, was interviewed for Silicon Republic

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Industry News

May 23, 2024

Does Your Company Need A Chief AI Officer?

Written by Ian Swanson for Forbes

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LLM Security

April 24, 2024

AI Agents: Chapter 2 - The Thin Line between AI Agents and Rogue Agents

Introduction In our previous article, we dissected Open AI’s and the broader LLM vendor...

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LLM Security

April 24, 2024

NEW to LLM Guard - Next Gen v2 Prompt Injection Model

Introduction Since the release of our first prompt injection detection model at the very end...

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LLM Security

April 3, 2024

AI Agents: Chapter 1 - (Ground)breaking LLMs?

Introduction Back in November 2023, Open AI’s dev day was a great leap forward in abstracting...

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LLM Security

March 13, 2024

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Challenge of Prompt Injections in a Multi-Modal World

Introduction The announcement of Open AI’s Sora model which can create imaginative scenes from...

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LLM Security

March 5, 2024

Preventing LLM Meltdowns with LLM Guard

Introduction Recently, we saw a surge in incoherent responses to user prompts in ChatGPT by...

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MLSecOps

March 5, 2024

How MLSecOps Can Reshape AI Security

Written by Ian Swanson forForbes

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LLM Security

February 21, 2024

Advancing LLM Adoption and Enhancing Security Against Invisible Prompt Injections with LLM Guard

Introduction As 2024 unfolds, it's shaping up to be a big year for LLM adoption as well as its...

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Model Security

January 23, 2024

How To Use AI/ML Technology Securely with Open-Source Tools from Protect AI

If you are not already working on a project leveraging some form of AI or ML, the odds are...

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Adversarial ML

January 16, 2024

A CISO’s perspective on how to understand and address AI risk

Written by Diana Kelley for SC Media

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Adversarial ML

January 10, 2024

Adapting Security to Protect AI/ML Systems

Written by Dan McInerney for Dark Reading

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PAI Updates

December 15, 2023

Protect AI Named on the Fortune Cyber60 List

On December 14th, we announced we were named into the inaugural edition of the Fortune Cyber...

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PAI Updates

December 12, 2023

Protect AI CEO, Ian Swanson, Delivers Testimony In Congressional Hearing on AI Security

Introduction Today, I was honored to have the opportunity to deliver testimony at a...

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PAI Updates

August 3, 2023

Announcing ModelScan: Open Source Protection Against Model Serialization Attacks

Introduction Machine Learning(ML) Models are shared over the internet, between teams, and are...

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PAI Updates

July 26, 2023

The Time is Now to Protect AI

This has been quite the year for artificial intelligence (AI). Innovations in Generative AI...

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Industry News

June 15, 2023

Alphabet Spells Out AI Security

What we’re reading Last week, Alphabet's Google spelled out their view of artificial...

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Threat Intelligence

June 6, 2023

Secure Your Python Projects with Dummies

TL;DR If you use a private package index for a Python library in development, ensure that it...

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Threat Intelligence

June 5, 2023

Hacking AI: System Takeover in MLflow Strikes Again (And Again)

2 patch bypasses found for severe MLflow LFI/RFI vulnerability All patched in MLflow version...

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Industry News

May 25, 2023

What’s Old is New - Natural Language as the Hacking Tool of Choice

What we’re reading We came across Daniel Miessler’s excellent blog and framework, The AI...

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Industry News

May 16, 2023

A Tale of Two LLMs - Safety vs. Complexity

What we’re reading In this hypersonic era of “I need a bot for that!”, we are fascinatedby...

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Industry News

May 8, 2023

Blog Byte: Spherical Steaks in ML. “Say what?!”

What we’re reading Sven Cattell, the President for AI Village posted a great article called...

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Employee Spotlight

March 31, 2023

Employee Spotlight: Josh Miles

We’re excited to celebrate, Josh Miles, a senior software engineer and an early member of...

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Employee Spotlight

March 30, 2023

Employee Spotlight: Dan McInerney

We’re excited to announce our newest hire, Dan McInerney who will lead our security team as...

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Employee Spotlight

March 30, 2023

Employee Spotlight: Faisal Khan

Shoutout to Faisal Khan, one of our Senior Software Engineers, and Protect AI's first recruit!...

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MLSecOps

March 13, 2023

Hacking AI: System and Cloud Takeover via MLflow Exploit

CVE-2023-1177: LFI/RFI in MLflow LFI/RFI leading to system and cloud account takeover All...

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Threat Intelligence

March 7, 2023

AI Zero Day Found in MLflow

AIØD: MLflow Could Expose Entire ML System TL;DR: MLflow versions prior to 2.2.2 have AI...

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Threat Intelligence

March 6, 2023

Hacking AI: Steal Models from MLflow, No Exploit Needed

No Authentication Can Lead To Problems MLflow comes with no authentication out of the box...

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PAI Updates

February 27, 2023

NB Defense Now in Public Beta

NB Defense is a powerful Jupyter Lab Extension that enables data scientists to implement Shift...

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PAI Updates

November 16, 2022

Why We Are Building Protect AI

I’ve spent much of my career scaling Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)...

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PAI Updates

November 16, 2022

Announcing NB Defense: The Starting Point of ML Security

Introduction Prior to joining Protect AI as Head of Product, I worked at AWS as a Solutions...

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MLSecOps

October 21, 2022

AI Zero Days: Why we need MLSecOps, now.

Day 1… Customers have been the focus of my career in almost every role I have had. Prior to...

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