Alliance Pushes for Open AI in Cybersecurity to Boost Transparency and Control

A new alliance has been formed to promote open artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for cybersecurity. The Open Secure AI Alliance consists of technology companies, cybersecurity firms, and open-source organizations, which argue that open AI models are essential for strengthening cyber defenses.

The group claims that open source software already underpins various industries such as cloud computing, financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, government operations, and internet services. They believe that open AI models and tools should play a similar role in cybersecurity to allow organizations to inspect, adapt, and deploy AI systems within their own environments.

The alliance cites a recent security incident involving Hugging Face, where the company relied on an open-weight AI model running on its own infrastructure to analyze over 17,000 actions during a cyberattack. This demonstrates the importance of allowing organizations to operate advanced AI systems on their own infrastructure during security incidents.

The Open Secure AI Alliance aims to develop and share open technologies, techniques, and tools to help secure software systems and AI agents. The founding members include prominent companies such as Nvidia, Adobe, Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Dell Technologies, Fortinet, GitHub, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Okta, Palo Alto Networks, Red Hat, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Siemens, Snowflake, VMware by Broadcom, Workday, Zscaler, and the Linux Foundation.