Robust Intelligence (now part of Cisco)

🚀 We’re thrilled to share that Cisco has announced its intent to acquire Robust Intelligence! Today marks a significant milestone for Robust Intelligence and the AI security industry overall. By combining our end-to-end platform with the Cisco Security Cloud, we can deliver advanced AI security processing seamlessly into enterprises’ existing data flows via Cisco security and networking products. This will provide Cisco with unparalleled visibility into all of a customer’s AI traffic, enabling customers to build, deploy, and secure AI applications with confidence. To all of our customers, thank you for your trust over these past five years! It’s your partnership that has made Robust Intelligence the enterprise choice for AI security. We look forward to serving you in this next chapter. Read more about the announcement here: https://lnkd.in/gR7h-fr7 #AIsafety #AIsecurity #LLMsecurity #AIgovernance #generativeAI #GenAI #Cisco #securitynews

You are not going to want to miss our next livestream! 👇 Join Harpoon's Founder and GP Larsen Jensen and Yaron Singer next Wednesday, October 2nd at 10am PT, for a live discussion on The Future of AI Security. Our guest, Yaron, founded one of the most innovative AI security companies of our time and recently led the team at Robust Intelligence (now part of Cisco) through acquisition by Cisco. The 30-minute discussion will be held live on LinkedIn, YouTube, and our live-streaming platform. You can use the link below to secure your spot and add the event to your calendar. We'll be taking a live Q&A from the audience and discussing how AI is currently being used to detect and prevent cyberattacks, how Yaron's team is pioneering tools that secure AI models, and the AI model deployment process. This is one live webinar you won't want to miss! 👉 Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gAw3M3yv ⇀

Collaboration between industry and government is key to advancing #AIsecurity. We’re proud to have again teamed up with #CISA for the 2nd Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative tabletop exercise on AI security incidents. This exercise brought together ~90 experts from government and industry over two days to simulate and respond to a security incident impacting the Financial Services Sector. During the exercise, we worked to refine an AI Security Incident Collaboration Playbook and tackle threats to critical sectors. As AI continues to be adopted across sectors, public-private partnerships like these are crucial to building a secure and resilient future. 🌐 Learn more about the tabletop exercise here: https://lnkd.in/ew-tuzq7 #JCDC #CISA #AIsafety #LLMsecurity #cybersecurity Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

🚨 NEW TRAINING DATA EXTRACTION METHOD: Our AI security researchers identified a simple method to extract verbatim training data that transfers easily across multiple frontier models. Our decomposition method evaluated copyrighted, paywalled articles from the The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal across two prominent LLMs. We’ve summarized our findings in this blog and included a link to our paper published on Arxiv: https://lnkd.in/guVsCbP2 While our research was focused on the extraction of paywalled content, these findings suggest that companies leveraging fine-tuning or RAG may find their sensitive business and user data at risk. The fact that fine-tuning LLMs breaks internal alignment, as evidenced by our previous research, increases the risk. This underscores the importance of using model-agnostic guardrails that can protect AI applications from revealing sensitive information in a response, such as PII, health data, and business records. #AIsecurity #LLMsecurity #AIsafety #genAI #generativeAI #dataprivacy

🎙️ Shekar Iyer, our Director of AI, is speaking on #AIsecurity at the O'Reilly AI Superstream virtual event this Wednesday 9/18 alongside 10 other notable experts in multimodal GenAI. We hope you'll join us! Register for a free trial: https://lnkd.in/gpW4i3XT 👏🏻 Antje Barth (AWS): Recent Breakthroughs in Multimodal Generative AI 👏🏻 Nahid Alam (Cisco Meraki): Unveiling the Edge of Generative AI—Resource, Cost, and Performance Trade-Offs for Multimodal Foundational Models 👏🏻 Suhas Pai (Hudson Labs): Evaluation of Multimodal Systems 👏🏻 Omar Aldughayem (Mobily): Enhancing Telecom Customer Service with Multimodal AI-Powered Chatbots 👏🏻 Rikin Gandhi (Digital Green): How We Built Farmer.Chat, a Multimodal GenAI Assistant 👏🏻 Anthony Susevski (RBC Capital Markets) and Andrei Betlen (Patagona Technologies): Quickly POCing Multimodal LLMs, Even on a ThinkPad 👏🏻 Chris Fregly (AWS): Beyond LLMs—Mastering Multimodal RAG for Engaging Generative AI Applications 👏🏻 Jingying Gao (Commonwealth Bank of Australia): Teaching AI to Solve Complex Logical Reasoning Using Multimodal Models 👏🏻 Susan Shu Chang (Elastic): Superstream host #generativeAI #multimodal #AI #machinelearning #RAG #AIsafety #AItesting

🏛️ It's been another eventful month for #AIpolicy with California’s new AI bill sent to the governor, the enforcement of the EU AI Act, NIST requesting comments on a US AI Safety Institute draft document, and more! As the AI policy landscape continues its rapid evolution, many are having a difficult time navigating the complex amalgamation of frameworks, regulations, executive orders, and legislation. Check out our August AI Governance Policy Roundup to help you cut through the noise with a need-to-know snapshot of recent domestic and international updates: https://lnkd.in/gZDRvRSY Please reach out if you’d like to learn more about what these might mean for your company and how Robust Intelligence can help. #AIGovernance #AICompliance #EUAIAct #NIST #SB1047

#CWE provides a standardized taxonomy for identifying and categorizing software weaknesses, which has recently been expanded to include #AIsecurity categories. In this blog co-authored by Kate Farris, Ph.D. (Co-Chair of the CWE AI Working Group) and Alie Fordyce (Product Policy Manager at Robust Intelligence) we explore: 1️⃣ Background on the CWE list initiated by MITRE. 2️⃣ CWE in the context of AI. 3️⃣ What this means for AI security. 🌐 Read the blog: https://lnkd.in/ge42_KDX Understanding the AI-security weakness that can result in an AI-related vulnerability enables engineers to mitigate them before AI model deployment, strengthening the AI pipeline and saving costs by preventing downstream effects. Robust Intelligence has been proud to participate in the leadership of the CWE AI Working Group. Special thanks to Alec Summers and Steve Christey Coley for their work and review of this blog. #AIsecurity #LLMsecurity #cybersecurity #MITRE

Reflecting on the events of last week, our co-founder Kojin Oshiba emphasized the impact we'll have in securing AI-driven enterprises at Cisco scale. The future is bright! ✨ #AIsecurity #hiring

The Robust Intelligence AI Security Research Team was able to exploit OpenAI's new Structured Outputs within hours of its release. They notified OpenAI and suggested countermeasures. This jailbreak is particularly significant for several reasons: 📌 Simplicity: The method is remarkably straightforward, requiring only a carefully defined data structure. 📌 Exploit of Safety Feature: The jailbreak takes advantage of a feature specifically designed to enhance safety, highlighting the complexity of AI security. 📌 Dramatic Increase in Attack Success Rate (ASR): Our tests show a 4.25x increase in ASR compared to the baseline, demonstrating the potency of this exploit. #cybersecurity #openai #ai #jailbreak

The BOOST method exploits eos (end of sequence) tokens to bypass ethical boundaries in LLMs. By appending eos tokens to harmful prompts, researchers were able to mislead LLMs into interpreting them as less harmful. Empirical evaluations were conducted on 12 state-of-the-art LLMs including GPT-4, Llama-2, and Gemma. Test results revealed that BOOST significantly enhanced attack success rates of existing jailbreak methods; for example, on Llama-2-7B-chat, BOOST improved the ASR by over 30%. Learn more about this and other AI security threats in our AI Cyber Threat Intelligence roundup: https://lnkd.in/g-6BhVqi #AIsecurity #LLMsecurity #cybersecurity #threatintel #LLMjailbreak