At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024, Operant AI introduced its groundbreaking 3D Runtime Defense Suite, which brings together Discovery, Detection, and Defense capabilities to protect cloud-native AI applications in real time. The suite safeguards every layer of live cloud applications, including AI models and APIs, ensuring comprehensive security in the rapidly evolving world of AI-driven technologies.
1. Challenges in Securing AI Applications
- As organizations increasingly deploy AI capabilities, traditional security methods, like static code scanning, often miss common AI attacks such as prompt injection and zero-day vulnerabilities.
- Large Language Models (LLMs) are unpredictable, making real-time defenses critical for preventing AI attacks.
- Existing runtime security solutions often focus on alerting rather than actively blocking threats, resulting in a flood of data for teams to analyze without addressing the root cause.
2. Operant’s 3D Runtime Defense Suite: Key Capabilities
- Enhanced Discovery:
- Provides instant live blueprints of AI workloads, models, and APIs.
- Continuously identifies ghost APIs and shadow AI data flows.
- Tracks data-in-use patterns across third-party APIs and data stores.
- Offers complete transparency of AI supply chains, covering platforms like OpenAI, Gemini, Cohere, and Anthropic.
- Runtime Threat Detection:
- Detects OWASP Top Ten LLM threats, including prompt injection, model theft, and sensitive data exfiltration.
- Monitors sensitive data leakage across ingress and egress for PII, API keys, and secrets.
- Active Defense:
- Automates in-line blocking and redaction of sensitive data flows.
- Intelligent quarantine of suspicious third-party containers and AI models.
- Enforces rate limiting and token usage controls for sensitive APIs, including AI endpoints.
3. Auto-Redaction for Sensitive Data
- Operant’s auto-redaction capabilities automatically identify and redact sensitive data (e.g., SSNs, API keys) before it leaves the environment.
- This ensures that sensitive data is protected while enabling AI models to continue functioning in a secure-by-default mode.
4. Empowering Faster, Secure Development
- Operant’s platform addresses a key challenge faced by AI development teams: securing AI environments while meeting aggressive development timelines.
- The single-step installation simplifies defense implementation, reducing engineering efforts and accelerating secure development processes.
5. Securing AI on Kubernetes
- The integration of Operant’s defense suite with Kubernetes helps secure AI applications right from the infrastructure to the AI APIs.
- By embedding security from the outset, the platform helps prevent future security risks and ensures privacy is maintained throughout the development lifecycle.
6. Strategic Industry Collaboration
- Operant has joined the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) and is committed to advancing its mission of securing the AI ecosystem and cloud-native applications.
- Sarah Novotny, advisor to Operant and board member of CoSAI, emphasizes the importance of secure-by-design applications in AI development and the role Operant plays in enabling AI-enhanced products.
Operant AI’s 3D Runtime Defense Suite represents a significant leap forward in securing the modern AI landscape. With powerful real-time discovery, detection, and defense capabilities, Operant ensures that AI models and applications can operate securely within their cloud-native environments. As AI adoption grows, Operant’s solution is positioned to empower developers to build faster, more secure AI applications while protecting sensitive data across the full application stack.
