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Pentesting AI Applications with Hackrate and SplxAI

With the implementation of the EU’s AI Act, Hackrate and SplxAI are enhancing AI security through a combination of automation and ethical hacking. Their partnership ensures comprehensive assessments, identifying vulnerabilities and ensuring compliance with new regulations.

Balazs PoznerAugust 12, 2024 · 4 min read · Last Updated:

With the recent implementation of the European Union’s AI Act, Europe has solidified its commitment to fostering responsible AI development and deployment. This landmark legislation, effective as of August 2024, introduces a risk-based framework that ensures AI systems meet stringent safety and transparency standards while addressing potential risks to citizens’ fundamental rights.

In light of these developments, Hackrate is focusing on AI testing by combining the power of automation with the expertise of ethical hackers, enabling continuous, thorough, and comprehensive assessments. This article explores how Hackrate, in partnership with SplxAI, helps companies secure their AI applications. We optimize safety assessments with specialized, highly focused teams and powerful AI security automation tools.

Hackrate’s Approach to AI Penetration Testing

Hackrate provides companies with comprehensive security assessments by leveraging the combined strengths of automation tools and the expertise of our ethical hackers. Our approach ensures that potential vulnerabilities are identified and mitigated efficiently, helping businesses safeguard their AI systems against emerging threats. Through collaboration with top technology firms, Hackrate thoroughly assesses the security of AI deployments, ensuring robust protection against a constantly evolving threat landscape.

SplxAI’s Role in AI Security Testing

Hackrate has partnered with SplxAI, a leading AI security company, to offer specialized AI security testing services. SplxAI focuses on identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities specific to AI systems, ensuring that these applications are secure and compliant with the latest regulations. This partnership allows Hackrate to provide comprehensive AI security solutions without being an AI company itself.

Benefits of Hackrate’s AI Pentesting Services

  • Identify and Squash Bugs Quickly: Hackrate ensures that common vulnerabilities are identified and resolved quickly through efficient engagements lasting 10-20 days. Leveraging the power of automation for 90% of the testing process, with the help of SplxAI, allows our ethical hackers to focus on the most critical parts. This strategic combination of automation and human expertise accelerates the detection and mitigation of issues, making the process both efficient and thorough.

  • Deploy Testers Who Pwn AI Security: We assemble teams of 5-10 highly-skilled experts, specifically chosen for their relevance to AI pentesting. This targeted approach ensures that the right specialists are applied to each task, enhancing the precision and effectiveness of our security assessments.

  • Get Comprehensive Testing Coverage: Hackrate leverages advanced automation tools to simulate thousands of attack scenarios, covering a wide range of potential vulnerabilities from prompt injection and jailbreak to off-topic usage, hallucinations, and many more. This broad testing coverage ensures thorough assessments and identification of issues across the entire AI application domain.

  • Identify Compliance Gaps: Our methodology includes a strong focus on compliance with key safety and security frameworks such as the EU AI Act, OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, GDPR, and ISO 42001. By efficiently identifying and addressing compliance gaps, Hackrate helps organizations maintain regulatory standards and mitigate legal risks.

In the Hackrate community, over 2500+ ethical hackers specialize in security testing. Leveraging the combined expertise and innovative tools from our technology partners, Hackrate is at the forefront of AI security. Our bug bounty program plays a crucial role in this process, allowing us to crowdsource security testing from a global network of skilled hackers. Together, Hackrate and SplxAI are leading the way in providing comprehensive and proactive AI solutions.

As AI risks continue to evolve, Hackrate is dedicated to securing its integration. For businesses adopting AI, we offer a proactive strategy to reduce risks and enhance benefits.

Contact our experts to learn more about pentesting AI with Hackrate.

Written by Balazs Pozner
CEO and Founder of HACKRATE Ltd.

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