AI is transforming industries, creating unprecedented opportunities for innovation and growth. However, with AI's immense power and potential comes a critical and growing need for trust, reliability and security. As AI systems grow in complexity and become deeply integrated into our daily lives, ensuring that they operate responsibly, ethically and safely is more important than ever.
At HCLTech, we recognize these evolving challenges. To address them, we've developed a comprehensive AI security portfolio that includes AI Governance, AI Data Security, AI Assurance and AI SecOps. These services are modular yet designed to work together, offering organizations a multi-layered and integrated approach to AI security in an increasingly AI-driven world.
What is AI Assurance?
AI Assurance refers to the evaluation and validation of AI systems to ensure they are:
- Secure: Defended against adversarial attacks and misuse.
- Responsible: Aligned with ethical and societal values.
- Compliant: Adhering to global regulatory standards.
- Resilient: Robust in real-world operational conditions.
Why is AI Assurance critical now?
Investing in AI assurance goes beyond risk mitigation; it is about building a sustainable and trustworthy AI ecosystem. The headlines provide ample evidence of why this is essential—AI vulnerabilities, biases, data leaks and unintended consequences have significantly impacted organizations. From discriminatory outcomes to data breaches, the risks of unchecked AI can harm users and damage reputations. By implementing robust AI assurance measures, organizations can build trust, protect their stakeholders and enable efficient innovation.
HCLTech AI Assurance services and framework
Our AI Assurance service empowers organizations to confidently build, deploy and manage AI systems with transparency and resilience. This holistic suite of services encompasses the entire AI lifecycle, from development to deployment and beyond, ensuring AI systems remain robust, secure, ethical and compliant.
HCLTech’s approach to AI assurance is multifaceted and addresses the diverse challenges in managing AI systems. Below are the critical components of our framework:
- Model and agent security: AI models are the "brains" of intelligent systems. We identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in models, including risks such as adversarial attacks, data poisoning, model inversion and privacy leaks. By analyzing model architecture, training datasets and deployment environments, we safeguard your intellectual property and maintain the integrity of your systems.
- AI Security Posture Management (AI SPM): Similar to traditional IT systems, AI environments demand continual oversight. Our AI SPM services provide comprehensive insights into your AI security landscape by identifying misconfigurations, tracking vulnerabilities and ensuring compliance with best practices and regulatory demands. We help you establish strong, tailored security policies for your AI ecosystem.
- AI red teaming: Proactive threat simulations help test the resilience of AI systems against potential attacks. Our expert red teamers use advanced tactics to simulate real-world threats targeting your AI models, data pipelines and deployment infrastructure. These efforts uncover system weaknesses, offering vital data to strengthen your defenses.
- AI penetration testing: Our AI penetration testing services go beyond red teaming, with a deeper focus on identifying exploitable vulnerabilities across your AI applications and infrastructure. These assessments help detect unauthorized access, data manipulation or compromised systems, providing actionable solutions to address and remediate flaws.
- AI application security: AI often operates as part of broader systems within applications. We ensure secure integration between your AI models and applications by addressing application security vulnerabilities (e.g., OWASP Top 10) within an AI context. This includes validating secure API integrations, data handling mechanisms and user authentication systems.
- AI runtime security: Deploying AI in production introduces unique risks. Our runtime security services continuously monitor deployed AI systems, detect anomalies, prevent adversarial attacks and protect against unauthorized modifications and data breaches. We enhance these capabilities with incident response planning tailored to active AI deployments.
Partner with HCLTech for trustworthy AI
At HCLTech, we believe AI should always be a positive force for progress. Partnering with us for AI assurance allows your organization to:
- Reduce risk: Proactively identify and mitigate security and bias-related vulnerabilities.
- Ensure compliance: Stay ahead of evolving regulatory and industry standards.
- Build trust: Strengthen confidence among customers and stakeholders in your AI systems.
- Accelerate innovation: Safely implement AI systems with speed, agility and reliability.
Ready to build trustworthy AI?
Don’t let the risks associated with AI overshadow its extraordinary potential. With our AI Assurance services, we can help your organization build and deploy AI systems that are secure, responsible and reliable—designed to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.
Contact HCLTech today to learn how we can empower your journey toward trustworthy AI at scale.
