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Most security content about AI products focuses on the model itself, prompt injection, data handling, the things that a…

If you have ever commissioned a penetration test, you have probably been handed a blank page and asked to define the sc…

Most security conversations with AI startups jump straight to the exotic risks, prompt injection, model manipulation, a…

Most startups buy cyber insurance, tick the box, and assume they are covered if something goes wrong with their AI prod…

Most conversations about AI security focus on enterprise buyers, and for good reason, since that is where security most…

If you have started researching security testing for your AI product, you have likely run into two terms that sound sim…

Most AI security conversations focus on what happens when someone attacks your model while it is running, things like p…

Retrieval augmented generation, usually shortened to RAG, has become the standard way to give an AI product access to y…

If you have not heard the term AI Bill of Materials yet, you will soon. It is moving quickly from a niche security conc…

Most security content is written from one side of the table. It tells you how to prove your own product is secure enoug…

Enterprise security reviews follow a pattern. The demo goes well, the buyer is interested, and then the deal quietly st…

If your AI product uses the Model Context Protocol, or MCP, to connect your agents to tools and data sources, there is…

If you have never heard of a security.txt file, you are not alone, and yet it is one of the smallest, cheapest pieces o…

Somewhere in an enterprise security review, you will almost certainly be asked for your list of sub-processors. If you…

If you have started receiving security questionnaires from enterprise buyers, you have probably noticed that they are n…

Somewhere in your first enterprise contract, alongside the Master Services Agreement, you will likely be asked to agree…

At some point in your first serious enterprise deal, someone from the buyer's legal team will send over a Master Servic…

Ask any experienced security reviewer what they check first when assessing an AI product, and hardcoded secrets will be…

Most AI startups discover their attack surface the hard way, when an enterprise buyer's security team maps it for them…

Every AI startup building on a hosted model has the same quiet problem. On every API call, your product sends data to a…

You have built a LangChain agent, it works, and an enterprise prospect wants a demo. Before you put it in front of a bu…

If you are a startup selling to enterprise and you have decided you need outside help with AI security, the next proble…

If you are losing enterprise deals at the security questionnaire stage, you have probably moved past wondering why it i…

If you are building a RAG system or any AI product with memory, you have chosen a vector database, probably Pinecone, W…

If you are choosing an agent framework for an AI product you intend to sell to enterprise, you have probably read the s…

If you are an AI startup researching how to get through enterprise security and compliance, you will quickly run into V…

There is a new certification that enterprise buyers are starting to ask AI companies about, and most founders have bare…

It is a question that tends to arrive late at night, often the evening before a big enterprise demo, when a founder sud…

If you are a UK AI startup sending data to the OpenAI API, you have probably asked yourself whether you are GDPR compli…

Every AI startup that starts selling to larger customers eventually hits the same fork in the road. A buyer asks for a…

If you are an AI startup researching ISO 27001, you will find no shortage of guides telling you what it costs and how l…

The product was good. That is the part nobody tells you. When an AI startup loses its first big enterprise deal, the fo…

Every AI startup selling to enterprise eventually faces the same document. A security questionnaire, often dozens of qu…

You just received an enterprise security questionnaire. There are dozens of questions, a deadline that feels impossibly…

If you are an AI startup approaching your first serious enterprise customer, there is one moment that will decide wheth…

If you are a UK startup founder researching SOC 2, one of your first questions is almost certainly how much it will cos…

If you are a startup founder looking into compliance, you have almost certainly come across Vanta and Drata. They are t…

If you are a startup founder in London searching for a SOC 2 consultant, there is a good chance an enterprise customer…

If you are building an AI product and searching for an AI security consultant in London, you are likely at one of two m…

If you are building an AI product that sends any customer data to a model provider such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google…

If you are building an AI product and you want to sell it to healthcare organisations in the United States, there is on…

If you are building an AI product, there is one vulnerability that enterprise security teams will almost always test fo…

If you are selling an AI product to enterprise clients, you have almost certainly run into compliance. A larger custome…

By the time an enterprise buyer sends you a security questionnaire, the clock is already against you. You have days to…

Almost every founder building an AI product will tell you their product is GDPR compliant. Far fewer can explain exactl…

If you are selling an AI product to enterprise clients, especially in the United States, there is one certification you…

At some point in your journey towards selling to enterprise clients, you will be asked a question that catches many fou…

If you are building an AI product and selling to enterprise clients, there is a good chance a new acronym has started a…

Most advice about AI security assumes you already have a product. Real code, real users, a real architecture to audit.…

If you are building a startup in the UK and selling to other businesses, you will eventually run into Cyber Essentials.…

There is a particular kind of disappointment that founders of AI startups know well. You have spent months building som…

If you are building an AI product in 2026, there is a good chance you have heard of the EU AI Act and quietly hoped it…