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In a strategic partnership with Bosch-owned startup AIShield, DEKRA will be enhancing the security of AI models and systems. DEKRA’s Fernando E. Hardasmal Barrera, Executive Vice President, and AIShield’s Manojkumar Parmar, founder, CEO, and CTO, provide the background.
Founder, CEO, and CTO, AIShield
Executive Vice President, DEKRA
What’s the reasoning for this partnership?
Given the rapid spread of AI applications, there is an enormous need for services that ensure safe and secure AI models and systems. Thorough training, assessment, audits, testing, and checks are the only way to make AI trustworthy.
Securing AI models is crucial. Unsecure AI systems can result in adverse business impact, revenue losses, and loss of trust, while noncompliance with standards and regulations can potentially result in severe penalties.
How will the partnership work?
AIShield will assume the role of technology provider for security testing and evaluation of AI models and systems based on our leading AI security platform.
Using AIShield’s innovative platform for AI security software, DEKRA AI experts will be conducting comprehensive tests and assessments to identify security vulnerabilities and check compliance with regulations and standards.
What are the partnership’s objectives?
Our shared goal is for AI to be widely adopted quickly but responsibly and securely. We will provide reliable testing processes, ensuring that AI models and systems meet the strictest standards. Together as partners, AIShield and DEKRA will contribute to the development of responsible AI frameworks, establishing trust in AI technologies.
Which industries are your efforts aimed at?
Compliance standards for AI are emerging in a number of industries, such as automotive, manufacturing, banking, healthcare, telecommunications, and critical infrastructure. We pool our strengths and knowledge to prepare companies in these industries for these standards and for compliance with them.
AIShield, a Bosch-owned startup recognized by Gartner, stands at the forefront of cyber security development for AI systems. AIShield’s AI security technology is backed by over 45 patents and has been used globally by over 40 organizations in the automotive, manufacturing, banking, telecommunications, and healthcare industries since 2022. AIShield helps organizations mitigate AI security risks before and after deployment and make AI systems (including generative AI) resilient and secure. This improves the safety and trustworthiness of AI systems as well as compliance with AI regulations and cyber security guidelines.