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Harmonic Named as a Representative Vendor in the 2024 Gartner® Innovation Guide for Generative AI in Trust, Risk and Security Management Report

April 26, 2024

One of our key takeaways from the report was that “vendors who build and typically host GenAI models do not provide a complete set of controls that mitigate these risks. Instead, users need to acquire solutions that do so to augment the vendors’ limited controls.” 

We’re proud that Harmonic Security is listed as a Representative Vendor in this guide.

What is GenAI TRiSM?

According to Gartner, the market forGenerative AI in Trust, Risk and Security Management (GenAI TriSM) “is a subset of a larger AITRiSM market, which includes multiple software segments that can only be implemented by the builders or owners of AI models, applications or agents. These builders or owners create, maintain and govern these entities.Builders or owners of AI models are sometimes the same entities that use or interact with those same AI models. In the case of large foundation models, the users of the models are typically different entities than the ones who build or own the models.”

 

Again, according to the report GenAI TRiSM specifically “comprises multiple software and services segments that support security, data protection and risk mitigation for adopters of GenAI applications and model interactions.”

Content Anomaly Detection

The guide outlines three areas of GenAI TRiSM:

Content anomaly detection. Includes

  • "Unacceptable or malicious use"
  • “Enterprise content transmitted through prompts or other methods that results in compromise of confidential data inputs
  • "Hallucinations or inaccurate, illegal, copyright-infringing and otherwise unwanted outputs that compromise enterprise decision making”

 

Data protection. Includes

  • “Data leakage and compromised confidentiality in hosted vendor environment or internal, self-managed environments”.
  • "Inability to govern privacy and data protection policies in externally hosted environments
  • "Difficulty conducting privacy impact assessments and complying with various regional regulations due to the“black box” nature of the third-party models

 

AI application security. Includes

  • "Adversarial prompting attacks” 
  • "Vector database attacks"
  • "Hacker access to model states and parameters."

 

Specifically around content anomaly detection, Gartner recommends the organizations “use content anomaly detection products that mitigate input and output risks to enforce acceptable use policy and prevent unwanted or otherwise illegitimate model completions and LLM applications responses from compromising your organization’s decision making, safety and security.”

Harmonic Security Named Representative Vendor for Content Anomaly Detection

GenAI TRiSM tools include solutions for:

  • Content anomaly detection
  • Data protection
  • AI application security

These tools complement associated TRiSM measures implemented by builders or owners of GenAI models, applications and agents.

 

Gartner recommends “Use content anomaly detection products that mitigate input and output risks to enforce acceptable use policy and prevent unwanted or otherwise illegitimate model completions and LLM applications responses from compromising your organization’s decision making, safety and security.”

 

Learn More about Harmonic Security

If you’re curious about GenAI TRiSM and want to better protect your sensitive information from leaking into LLMs, we’d love to hear from you!

 

Harmonic Security has been selected as a ‘finalist’ for the RSA Conference 2024 Innovation Sandbox Contest, which means you can come along on May 6th and see what we’ve been up to!

 

To learn more about Harmonic, or to arrange to meet us at RSA, contact us here: https://www.harmonic.security/book-a-meeting.

 

Gartner, Innovation Guide for GenerativeAI in Trust, Risk and Security Management, By Avivah Litan, Jeremy D'Hoinne,Gabriele Rigon, 12 April 2024

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