I spoke with around 30 or 40 CISOs last week. The consensus? Securing agentic workflows is a million miles away from the realities and risks today. 

You’ve probably heard the term “partnership” tossed around a lot in our industry. All too often, it’s just a hollow buzzword, but not with Harmonic.

Over the past few days, DeepSeek has jumped to the top of the app charts – prompting alarm in the United States. But what do we know so far? Are employees using it? What data privacy implications does this have for US enterprises? What implications does this have for who “wins” the arms race? 

Yesterday, we learned more about the “Stargate Project” - an American AI initiative focused on winning the AI arms race against China. This project promises a staggering $500 billion in funding for AI infrastructure.

With only a couple of weeks left in 2024, let’s turn our gaze to what we might expect to see in 2025 around AI security. I think there are five themes that are likely to rear their heads over the next 12 months:

It feels surreal that, this time last year, Bryan and I were still preparing for our first company kick-off. ‍Fast forward one year, and I’m excited that we can further accelerate this vision with $17.5M in Series A funding.

We’ve spent billions of dollars and decades of effort and data protection doesn’t work. I’ve been lucky enough to speak with a number of security leaders over the past decade to try and understand why. 

Musk’s outburst at the news of Apple partnering with OpenAI may be an overreaction, but it’s symptomatic of some recent high-profile gaffes around AI and data privacy. Thus far, Apple has fallen short of providing clear guidance on what data will ultimately be sent to OpenAI and how privacy will be protected. This should give individuals and corporations pause.

Google unveiled Gemini, rebranding from "Bard" with a new paid Gemini Advanced tier based on Ultra 1.0, challenging OpenAI's ChatGPT with novel features but raising data privacy concerns.

NIST's Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 is coming and will likely provide a helpful structure for thinking about how to secure GenAI. This blog explores the framework in more detail, while providing practical guidance at each of CSF's stages.

Yesterday, Italy’s data protection authority, Garante, issued a notice to OpenAI for potential violations of GDPR. In this blog, we explore the impact of generative AI tools on new and existing and emerging compliance frameworks.

Exploring the implications of the launch of the OpenAI GPT Store

Curious to understand how security teams will adapt to the changing AI landscape in 2024? Me too. In this blog, I outline my top five predictions for the next 12 months.

On ChatGPT’s one year anniversary, Harmonic analyzes the proliferation of AI tools, how employees are using them, and the risks security teams must consider.

On the 1st and 2nd November world leaders and key figures from the major technology companies will assemble in the UK for the first global summit on artificial intelligence. Read our thoughts on the prospects for the summit and the outcomes we would like to see

Today I am delighted to announce the launch of Harmonic Security with a $7m seed round, helping companies to adopt Generative AI without risking the security and privacy of their data.