Red team AI now to build safer, smarter models tomorrow

Editor’s note: Louis will lead an editorial roundtable on this topic at VB Transform this month. Register today.

AI models are under siege. With 77% of enterprises already hit by adversarial model attacks and 41% of those attacks exploiting prompt injections and data poisoning, attackers’ tradecraft is outpacing existing cyber defenses.

To reverse this trend, it’s critical to rethink how security is integrated into the models being built today. DevOps teams need to shift from taking a reactive defense to continuous adversarial testing at every step.

Red Teaming needs to be the core

Protecting large language models (LLMs) across DevOps cycles requires red teaming as a core component of the model-creation process. Rather than treating security as a final hurdle, which is typical in web app pipelines, continuous adversarial testing needs to be integrated into every phase of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).