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AI Security

Techniques for verifying model weight integrity and detec...

A practical guide to model weight integrity: baseline checksums, sign weights, verify in CI/CD, and detect tampering before it reaches production.

Aug 4, 20268 min read
AI Security

Securing the fine-tuning pipeline against injected malici...

Fine-tuning pipeline security is now an AI supply chain priority: as few as 250 poisoned documents can backdoor a model, and LoRA adapters make it easy to hide.

Aug 4, 20267 min read
AI Security

How data poisoning attacks corrupt LLM behavior during tr...

A single expired domain and $60 can poison a training set. Here's how data poisoning attacks corrupt LLM behavior — and how Safeguard verifies training data before it ships.

Aug 4, 20267 min read
AI Security

GPT-5.2 System Card Update: What Changed Since August

OpenAI shipped the GPT-5.2 update to the GPT-5 system card on December 11, 2025. We dig into the preparedness scoring, the cybersecurity capability claims, and what changed for downstream defenders.

Aug 4, 20267 min read
AI Security

AI Tool Confused-Deputy: A Deep Dive

The confused deputy problem takes on new and subtle forms when AI agents invoke tools on behalf of users. A technical deep dive with concrete mitigations.

Aug 4, 20268 min read
AI Security

Understanding model poisoning and backdoored model weights

A poisoned model looks like any other checkpoint file. Here's how model poisoning attacks work, real incidents on Hugging Face, and how detection and provenance checks catch them.

Aug 4, 20267 min read
AI Security

What an AI Bill of Materials is and why enterprises need one

An AI bill of materials (AIBOM) inventories the models, data, and dependencies behind an AI system. Here's what it is and why enterprises need one.

Aug 4, 20267 min read
AI Security

Risks of downloading malicious pretrained models from pub...

Real incidents show malicious Hugging Face models evading scanners with pickle exploits and reverse shells. Here's what teams need to know before the next pull.

Aug 4, 20267 min read
AI Security

How slopsquatting exploits AI-hallucinated package names

Slopsquatting attacks turn AI-hallucinated package names into real supply chain threats. Here's how it works, the numbers behind it, and how Safeguard stops it.

Aug 3, 20267 min read
AI Security

Security risks introduced by AI coding assistants and gen...

AI coding assistants now write huge shares of production code. Real 2025 incidents show hallucinated packages, leaked secrets, and vulnerable defaults ship with it.

Aug 3, 20267 min read
AI Security

Using confidential computing to protect LLM inference and...

How hardware-based secure enclaves keep LLM prompts and weights encrypted even during active inference, and why confidential AI inference is reshaping AI compliance in 2026.

Aug 2, 20267 min read
AI Security

What AI red teaming is and how to run a structured exercise

A practical guide to AI red teaming: how to plan, run, and report a structured LLM red team exercise using a repeatable adversarial testing methodology.

Aug 1, 20268 min read

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