Cisco celebrates the recognition of Strong Intelligence, an AI safety startup acquired in recent years, as a standout company in the inaugural 2024 Gartner Cool Vendors for AI Safety report.
According to Gartner, safety and risk management leaders contend with operational hurdles, regulatory requirements, and cyber attacks targeting AI technologies. This report profiles innovative providers that are pioneering groundbreaking approaches to securing artificial intelligence applications, reinforcing confidence in AI’s integrity, mitigating risk, and ensuring robust safety management capabilities.
Moreover, Strong Intelligence commemorates the groundbreaking achievements of its staff since inception – pioneering the development of the first-ever AI Firewall, delving deeply into matters such as quality tuning and algorithmic jailbreaking, and establishing an end-to-end platform for AI safety that has become a benchmark for the industry.
“Cisco’s Strong Intelligence is honored to be recognized in Gartner’s esteemed Cool Distributors report, with Co-Founder Yaron Singer expressing his enthusiasm and pride at this achievement.” “We anticipate that our pioneering efforts at Strong Intelligence will serve as a testament not just to our cutting-edge work, but also more widely to the current state of artificial intelligence safety.” When esteemed analyst firms like Gartner release reports highlighting AI safety as an imperative challenge, it underscores the pressing urgency facing enterprises today.
Why Strong Intelligence stands out as a pioneering force in AI safety: this innovative company has revolutionized the space with its cutting-edge approaches to mitigating risks associated with artificial intelligence. By leveraging its expertise in machine learning and cybersecurity, Strong Intelligence has developed a suite of solutions that empower organizations to identify and contain potential AI threats, thereby safeguarding their digital assets and reputations.
The unchecked deployment of AI poses a myriad of financial, legal, and reputational risks to organizations that fail to implement safeguards, potentially jeopardizing their very existence. The responsibility for AI safety lies jointly with those developing AI capabilities and the safety and governance bodies safeguarding sensitive information at the organizational level, ensuring a collective approach to mitigating potential risks. The optimal AI safety solution should ensure responsible and transparent expansion, while also establishing real-time monitoring mechanisms post-deployment.
As a trailblazer in this space, Strong Intelligence introduced its groundbreaking AI Firewall to the marketplace, a pioneering component within its comprehensive AI safety ecosystem. Organisations at the forefront of artificial intelligence innovation believe that robust intelligence is crucial for safeguarding their AI applications against numerous security and safety threats.
The Strong Intelligence platform comprises three fundamental components, safeguarding AI objectives across their entire lifecycles:
- Proactively detects and addresses potential safety vulnerabilities within open-source components of the AI supply chain, mirroring best practices established by esteemed organizations like Hugging Face. If left unchecked, such malicious insertions could potentially compromise an entire AI system entirely.
- Automatically secures and safeguards AI developments by proactively identifying and addressing potential risks, empowering developers to build more robust and reliable systems from inception. The algorithmic pink teaming assesses vulnerabilities to various assault tactics and categorizes risks for artificial intelligence systems.
- Ensures real-time safety for manufacturing applications utilizing AI, safeguarding against various forms of attacks and adverse reactions. This protection mechanism encompasses numerous classes and evolves primarily through the integration of cutting-edge AI-powered risk analysis capabilities.
The Strong Intelligence platform’s core capabilities rely on three proprietary components: advanced algorithm-driven team collaboration expertise, a cutting-edge AI-powered risk intelligence framework, and comprehensive data mapping capabilities. Through its collaborative efforts with renowned organizations such as MITRE, NIST, and OWASP, the Strong Intelligence staff has established AI safety protocols to ensure the responsible development of artificial intelligence. Our experts’ profound knowledge enables clients to proactively counteract diverse AI-related risks and ensure seamless adherence to relevant insurance protocols. This capability enables us to rapidly dispatch security patches and updates, thereby safeguarding our customers from the ever-evolving landscape of potential threats.
As a pioneer in AI safety, Strong Intelligence remains at the cutting edge of innovative solutions, having developed the industry’s initial AI Firewall and conducted groundbreaking AI evaluations. Research has explored the intersection of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and natural language processing, delving into topics such as algorithmic jailbreaking, the risks associated with overfitting in fashion design, the extraction of actionable insights from coaching data, and vulnerabilities discovered within cutting-edge large-language models.
Cisco’s Safety Cloud leverages Strong Intelligence’s domain-specific expertise, effectively fortifying its ability to safeguard AI-driven models against an array of potential threats.
We’re thrilled that Strong Intelligence has been recognized as a Cool Vendor, and we can’t wait to leverage our partnership with Cisco to take AI safety to new heights.
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