Open Secure AI Alliance aims to open-source AI security defences
The Open Secure AI Alliance, comprising major technology firms and AI labs, aims to develop open-source tools for AI security defenses. The initiative was spurred by a high-profile breach at Hugging Face, which highlighted limitations of closed AI models in incident response. Members are contributing various components such as harnesses, identity frameworks, and secure model formats to build a comprehensive open security stack.
- ▪The Open Secure AI Alliance includes companies like Nvidia, Adobe, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and AI labs such as Hugging Face and Cognition.
- ▪A security breach at Hugging Face demonstrated that closed AI tooling could not adequately separate attacker activity from defender actions, prompting the shift to open-weight models for analysis.
- ▪The alliance argues that open models, combined with proper evaluation, monitoring, and rapid patching, provide greater defensive capacity than closed models restricted by vendor controls.
- ▪Contributions from members include Nvidia's NOOA harness, HPE's SPIFFE identity framework, Hugging Face's Safetensors format, and IBM/Red Hat's Lightwell supply‑chain patching project.
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A new group of major firms, the Open Secure AI Alliance, are setting out to build open-source AI tools for security defences.Nvidia, Adobe, Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, IBM, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Red Hat, Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNow sit alongside cloud and infrastructure providers such as Dell Technologies, HPE, NetApp, and Snowflake. The roster also includes AI labs including Hugging Face, Cognition, Nous Research, and Thinking Machines Lab. The Linux Foundation, which already runs the OpenSSF community work referenced in the group’s founding materials, supplies the governance structure behind it.What forced the question wasn’t a policy paper but a certain alarming incident at Hugging Face that made global headlines.The breach that forced an open-model fixHugging Face…
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