Insights Archive - CalypsoAI https://calypsoai.com/insights/ Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:33:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://calypsoai.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cropped-logo-with-padding.001-32x32.png Insights Archive - CalypsoAI https://calypsoai.com/insights/ 32 32 Explainability: Shining a Light into the AI Black Box  https://calypsoai.com/insights/ai-explainability/ Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:20:38 +0000 https://calypsoai.com/?post_type=insight&p=42535 Insights by James White, CTO, CalypsoAI With GenAI, we now have a good understanding of how answers are generated and given back to us. Simply, AI is a transformer architecture — it’s choosing the best prediction for the next word and sentence, and giving back the most likely answer from the information it has been […]

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Insights by James White, CTO, CalypsoAI

With GenAI, we now have a good understanding of how answers are generated and given back to us. Simply, AI is a transformer architecture — it’s choosing the best prediction for the next word and sentence, and giving back the most likely answer from the information it has been trained on.

However, when an application or process uses AI or AI agents to carry out a task – choosing candidate resumes, for example – organizations rightly want to know why the decision was made, and how that decision came about. That’s because, in worst-case scenarios, if the how is bad, the outcome may no longer be useful. 

This is the ‘black box’ we hear about in AI, the lack of clarity on how an application or agent completed a task based on the criteria it was given. In the pre-GenAI period, dating back to neural networks, explainability was described in line charts, showing which parts of the information had the greatest impact on the decision being made.

This all becomes much more complex when it comes to GenAI, and agents in particular. A simple agent will have a brain, which is the underlying AI model; it will have a purpose, which is its task(s); and it will have the tools it can interact with to complete its purpose. 

An AI agent doesn’t have a moral compass or a lifetime of being taught right from wrong; it doesn’t have an understanding of real-world consequences of its actions. You can’t guarantee an agent will do something how you want it to, especially if you want to foster autonomy.

For example, an organization might task an agent to delete a company name, Random Company LLC, from its customer list. The agent may respond, ‘Done, Random Company LLC is no longer in our database’, but it may have achieved that by deleting all customer names starting with ‘R’. While it technically achieved the task, the ‘how’ has serious consequences. 

Agentic Fingerprints: Explainability for AI Agents

To understand how an agent carries out its task, we need to understand – after the fact – every thought the agent had, every interaction it had, every decision and action it took. To provide transparency or explainability, we need to be able to break up the answer or outcome that the agentic system gave, and see which parts fell into which category. 

When we know that information, we have visibility of the things the agent attempted that were unsuccessful, and the things that were successful. Even if they’re successful, they may not be right, like the example above, where the agent achieved its purpose but in a negative way. 

To achieve that, in CalypsoAI’s Inference Red-Team product, we have developed Agentic Fingerprints, offering full-spectrum visibility into every decision, prompt and pivot made by an autonomous agent. 

With Agentic Fingerprints, the first step is recording everything the agent does. With an agent, we can see what it is doing with tools really easily – the challenge comes with identifying what the agent is thinking, through all of the iterations with self-directed chain-of-thought models, and how it ultimately gets to the one it decides is right. 

Agentic Fingerprints parses all of those chains of thought and gives a full record of the agent’s activity in chronological order. We can see where it peels off into an action, or it separates into a new question. 

That is represented in a decision-tree format, a top-down, exploding node graph of all the thoughts and decisions that got the agent to its outcome. It’s clear which path the agent took to successfully complete its task. Everything else, by definition, is an unsuccessful avenue, a cul-de-sac the agent went down, from which we can draw learnings. 

For the first time, Agentic Fingerprints gives organizations explainability, a quick and easy understanding of what the Red-Team agents did and how they did it. 

Outcome Analysis: Advancing AI Explainability

When we think about applying GenAI or agentic workflows to real life, if the output is a refusal to complete a request, we should be able to see why that’s the case. For too long now, GenAI, when it’s making decisions, we’ve only been able to see the outcome as simply positive or negative. 

We at CalypsoAI were guilty of that. We would provide enterprises with the industry-leading, best-in-class, security scanners that block malicious traffic based on the configuration for a particular system; the outcome would be a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’. 

That’s fine in the early stages of a new technology. But as AI is being more and more used in production, in real-life scenarios, it’s critical that we don’t just say, ‘Computer says no’. Our customers, and their customers, deserve a full answer. 

Perhaps it’s a ‘no’ for legal reasons; perhaps it’s a ‘no’ because the user doesn’t have permission to access a particular item on their service plan. Whatever it is, they need to understand why. It can’t just be ‘no’.

Within CalypsoAI’s Inference Defend product, Outcome Analysis now answers why something was blocked by the security scanning controls put in place as part of an enterprise AI system. We show an easy-to-understand insight based on the content that was provided, and the specific part that triggered a particular rule. 

AI systems are an opaque black box but Outcome Analysis opens up that opaque lid, letting the light in. Enterprises can now have confidence on why our Inference Defend scanners block certain content or data, the circumstances that were at the time, and the reason it was blocked.

Our customers are servicing their own customers — and they’re going to get asked questions — so we now provide the capability to them to self-fulfil the questions they get from their customers. 

Why AI Explainability Matters for Enterprise Adoption

The responsibility we have in security is not being outlandish; security should be in the background keeping things safe, not in the foreground juggling. So when CalypsoAI releases features, they are things that are necessary to facilitate the jugglers front-of-stage, the model developers and organizations doing things with AI that grab the headlines. 

Transparency, explainability, are never going to be the juggler act in the front but they are vital, and we would go as far as to say, expected. CalypsoAI’s explainability features feel like things that should exist in order for enterprises to confidently adopt AI, and agents in particular. 

If enterprises can understand how and why an agent made its decisions, they can take informed remediation action rapidly if something does go wrong. That’s something that’s critical for agentic workflows.

With CalypsoAI’s transparency features, we can show that agents are doing real work, how they do it, and why they make their decisions. It’s tangible, and it’s the first time organizations can visually understand something that’s happening at machine speed in a virtual world.

Watch the Full Conversation

In this video, James dives into this topic with CalypsoAI Communications Lead, Gavin Daly.

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Guardrails Aren’t Enough: Why Scanners Are Essential for AI Security https://calypsoai.com/insights/guardrails-vs-scanners/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:18:41 +0000 https://calypsoai.com/?post_type=insight&p=42509 Guardrails alone can’t keep AI systems safe. This is something CalypsoAI’s research team sees every month when testing the world’s major models (results published on CalypsoAI’s Security Leaderboards). While guardrails are useful for setting behavioral boundaries, attackers are persistent. With the constant barrage of prompt injections, jailbreak attempts and novel exploits, organizations are left exposed […]

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Guardrails alone can’t keep AI systems safe. This is something CalypsoAI’s research team sees every month when testing the world’s major models (results published on CalypsoAI’s Security Leaderboards). While guardrails are useful for setting behavioral boundaries, attackers are persistent. With the constant barrage of prompt injections, jailbreak attempts and novel exploits, organizations are left exposed to data leaks, compliance failures, and adversarial manipulations that guardrails weren’t designed to stop. To truly secure AI applications and agents, organizations need scanners that defend in real-time by detecting and blocking threats as they happen.

Why Enterprises Can’t Rely on Guardrails Alone

AI guardrails are preventive tools, typically built into models through training, reinforcement learning, or prompt rules. They shape the intended behavior of AI systems, restricting what models should and shouldn’t do. But once a model is in production, real-world usage exposes its limits through things like:

  • Attackers inventing new prompts and exploits that sidestep guardrail restrictions
  • Sensitive information, such as PII or source code leakings even when outputs appear safe
  • Slow adaptation, with guardrails often requiring retraining or reconfiguration before they can handle new threats

In other words, guardrails guide models, but they don’t guarantee security.

Scanners Catch What Guardrails Miss

CalypsoAI’s security scanners fill the gap guardrails leave behind. Operating at inference, scanners inspect both prompts and outputs in real time, blocking or flagging risky interactions before issues arise. For example, prompt injection and jailbreak scanners can detect manipulative prompts that attempt to override policies. Similarly, data loss prevention scanners stop sensitive data from leaving the organization.

Scanners can run in a block mode (preventing violations) or audit mode (logging events for oversight). Unlike guardrails, these security scanners are continuously updated, ensuring defenses keep pace with evolving attacks. 

To put it simply, guardrails are like the fences that define where people can go around a building. Scanners are the security checkpoints at the entrance—inspecting everything that crosses the threshold. One sets the boundaries; the other ensures nothing harmful slips through.

Scanners vs. Guardrails: Key Differences

While both scanners and guardrails contribute to AI security, they operate in fundamentally different ways. This table outlines the distinctions at a glance.

This contrast makes one thing clear: guardrails help guide AI, but scanners are what keep it truly secure in production.

Why Enterprises Need Scanners to Secure AI

While scanners provide the stronger layers of protection at inference, their real value comes when paired with guardrails, working together to create a defense-in-depth strategy.

Guardrails establish the baseline boundaries for model behavior. Scanners extend that protection, catching novel threats and circumvention attempts that guardrails can’t anticipate. For example, a guardrail might prohibit a model from giving medical advice, while a scanner detects and blocks attempts to sidestep that rule through indirect phrasing or manipulative prompts. 

This layered approach offers the strongest posture for AI security, enabling enterprises to innovate with confidence while staying resilient against ever-evolving risks.

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The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence: Inside the U.S.-China AI Arms Race https://calypsoai.com/insights/the-geopolitics-of-ai/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 07:53:43 +0000 https://calypsoai.com/?post_type=insight&p=42506 By Anthony Candeias, CISO, Professor, Advisor The race to dominate artificial intelligence is no longer just about algorithms, it’s about hardware. The battle over GPUs, advanced semiconductors, and manufacturing equipment has become a defining front in the evolving strategic rivalry between the United States and China. What was once a competition over innovation is now […]

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By Anthony Candeias, CISO, Professor, Advisor

The race to dominate artificial intelligence is no longer just about algorithms, it’s about hardware. The battle over GPUs, advanced semiconductors, and manufacturing equipment has become a defining front in the evolving strategic rivalry between the United States and China. What was once a competition over innovation is now a geopolitical struggle for control of the computational engines that power the future.

Semiconductors as Strategy

Artificial intelligence today runs on silicon. Chips like Nvidia’s A100 and H100 GPUs are the backbone of large-scale model training. For U.S. policymakers, retaining leadership in semiconductor design and manufacturing is a national imperative. In response, Washington has employed a multi-pronged strategy: restrict adversarial access, subsidize domestic capability, and align global allies.

Beginning in 2022, the Biden administration implemented sweeping export controls to block China’s access to the most advanced chips and manufacturing equipment. The CHIPS and Science Act earmarked $52.7 billion to rebuild the U.S. semiconductor ecosystem. The U.S. also leaned on its geopolitical leverage, securing agreements with the Netherlands and Japan to limit China’s access to key lithography tools, such as ASML’s EUV machines.

China has not stood still. In response to sanctions, it has poured capital and talent into domestic alternatives. In 2023, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) stunned industry watchers by producing 7nm chips using older DUV tools—technology thought to be generations behind. Huawei followed with competitive AI chips such as the Ascend 910C and its Mate 60 Pro smartphone, signaling resilience despite constraints. Beijing’s 2024 announcement of a $47.5 billion injection into the sector reaffirms a clear directive: achieve 70% semiconductor self-sufficiency by 2030.

Strategic Competition, Economic Disruption

This technological rivalry is already reshaping global markets. U.S. companies like Nvidia, once reliant on China for significant revenue, now face estimated losses ranging from $5.5 to $17.8 billion due to the export bans. Supply chains are fragmenting as Chinese firms turn to intermediaries and alternative ecosystems, prompting the U.S. to extend enforcement to third-party nations like Malaysia and the UAE. At the same time, Washington has moved to further shore up its domestic industry: the federal government recently acquired a 10% stake in Intel, underscoring semiconductors’ status as strategic infrastructure. Beyond immediate financial implications, the move reflects an effort to stabilize U.S. chip production and reduce reliance on external supply chains.

For allies, the dilemma is delicate. The Netherlands, home to ASML, must balance strategic alignment with the U.S. against its commercial interests. Gulf nations that partnered with Chinese AI firms for digital transformation face new constraints. And nations across the Global South may soon be forced to choose sides in an increasingly bifurcated tech landscape.

Ironically, the more Washington restricts, the more it may accelerate Beijing’s domestic innovation. If China succeeds in scaling advanced manufacturing—particularly with recent signs of 5nm progress—export controls could have the unintended effect of fueling long-term competition rather than curtailing it.

The long-term implications are that three core realities now define the AI arms race:

  1. Hardware is the chokepoint. Data and talent matter, but without computational power, breakthroughs stall. AI hardware is now central to economic growth and military preparedness.
  2. Export controls are strategic weapons. The U.S. has weaponized the semiconductor supply chain with precision. Yet enforcement gaps and global dependencies make this strategy difficult to sustain at scale.
  3. China’s catch-up curve is compressing. The country’s ability to leapfrog technological barriers—especially under constraint—should not be underestimated.

Milestones such as Huawei’s 910C shipments in May 2025 and SMIC’s rumored 5nm progress illustrate the momentum behind China’s efforts. The United States still leads, but that lead is shrinking. Unless it can sustain innovation and coordinate policy across sectors and allies, it risks ceding the long-term advantage.

What began as an economic contest is now a struggle over digital sovereignty. The future of artificial intelligence will be shaped not only by those who build the smartest models—but by those who control the chips they run on.


 

 

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The AI Security Market: From “What If” to “Must-Have” https://calypsoai.com/insights/the-ai-security-market-from-what-if-to-must-have/ Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:02:14 +0000 https://calypsoai.com/?post_type=insight&p=42492 Insights from TJ Gonen, Cyber Advisor & Founder, Protego Labs A year ago, AI security was still a “what if” conversation. Organizations were experimenting with chatbots, exploring proof-of-concepts, and compiling lists of hypothetical risks. Security, if it was discussed at all, was often an afterthought, something to consider later, once the technology proved useful. Fast […]

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Insights from TJ Gonen, Cyber Advisor & Founder, Protego Labs

A year ago, AI security was still a “what if” conversation. Organizations were experimenting with chatbots, exploring proof-of-concepts, and compiling lists of hypothetical risks. Security, if it was discussed at all, was often an afterthought, something to consider later, once the technology proved useful.

Fast forward to today, and the landscape has changed dramatically. The conversation has shifted from if we need AI security to how quickly we can get it in place. Enterprises are no longer playing with AI, they’re embedding it into real, production-grade processes that impact business-critical outcomes.

Recently CalypsoAI’s Head of Strategic Engagements, Shane McCallion, joined TJ Gonen, Cyber Advisor & Founder, Protego Labs, as part of the AI Inference Security Project to discuss just how much has changed in AI security over the past year. Continue reading to get TJ’s insights on the topic and watch the full conversation below.

From Pilots to Enterprise‑Ready: What Changes at Scale

The most significant shift TJ has observed in the AI space is the rapid move from experimentation to deployment.  In 2024, many organizations were running small, low-risk pilots. In 2025, they’re building AI into critical workflows, and what “works” in a small POC rarely survives real‑world traffic, diversity of use cases, and organizational complexity. For example, a 5% error rate that’s tolerable in a sandbox becomes a disaster when processing tens or hundreds of millions of requests. TJ’s point: the moment AI touches critical workflows, you need guardrails that hold under volume, across teams, and over time.

Enterprise‑Ready: The Non‑Negotiables

Being enterprise‑ready is a checklist you either meet or you don’t. The bar includes:

  • Accuracy at volume: Low false positives/negatives and consistent behavior under heavy load.
  • Centralized policy & orchestration: One place to author, roll out, and version controls across many apps.
  • Performance SLAs: Predictable latency/throughput with capacity to scale without degrading security.
  • Observability & audit: Full‑fidelity logs, explainability, and reporting to satisfy ops, risk, and regulators.
  • Deployment flexibility: SaaS, on‑prem, and even air‑gapped when the use case or regulator demands it.
  • Governance alignment: Approvals, model provenance, and change control integrated with existing GRC.
  • Continuous validation: Automated  red‑teaming plus runtime defenses given the continuous evolution of AI threats.
  • Data controls: Strong protections against leakage of PII, secrets, and IP in both inputs and outputs.

TJ calls out that this is the difference between a tool that demos well and a platform that survives production.

New Categories and Total Disruption

TJ sees two big impacts this shift in AI will have on the security market:

  1. Creation of entirely new categories: particularly AI systems that augment human security operations. Tasks like onboarding, compliance checks, and incident triage will soon move from human analysts to agentic AI.
  2. Full disruption of existing categories: areas like penetration testing, SOC operations, and data loss prevention will be transformed, in some cases replaced, by AI-driven, continuous processes.

This isn’t a 10-year change, it’s a two-to-three-year window before major parts of the cybersecurity landscape look completely different.

Why CalypsoAI’s Bet Resonated

When TJ joined CalypsoAI’s Executive Advisory Board, it was the clarity of focus that stood out. While other companies tried to cover the full AI security spectrum—from browser plugins to code scanning—CalypsoAI zeroed in on securing AI applications in production. The bet was that this application-level security would quickly become a must-have. To TJ, that bet has paid off.

Final Word: The Fun and the Urgency

For TJ, the work is both urgent and enjoyable. Urgent, because the market is moving at a speed that few anticipated, going from playful exploration to critical deployment in under 12 months. Enjoyable, because building solutions alongside the right people makes the hard problems worth solving.

The bottom line: AI security has graduated from a “someday” topic to an immediate requirement. The organizations that move now, while the market is still taking shape, will be the ones best positioned to innovate safely at scale.

Watch Shane’s full conversation with TJ Gonen

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How Forrester’s AEGIS Framework Validates an Inference-First Approach https://calypsoai.com/insights/forresters-aegis-framework/ Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:28:21 +0000 https://calypsoai.com/?post_type=insight&p=42479 The rise of agentic AI is transforming the enterprise security landscape. These self-directed AI agents operate autonomously, make real-time decisions, and can interact across systems in ways traditional cybersecurity architectures weren’t designed to handle. While this unlocks new possibilities, it also introduces systemic risks: cascading failures, goal hijacking, and previously invisible attack surfaces. Forrester’s recent […]

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The rise of agentic AI is transforming the enterprise security landscape. These self-directed AI agents operate autonomously, make real-time decisions, and can interact across systems in ways traditional cybersecurity architectures weren’t designed to handle. While this unlocks new possibilities, it also introduces systemic risks: cascading failures, goal hijacking, and previously invisible attack surfaces.

Forrester’s recent report, Introducing the AEGIS Framework: Agentic AI Enterprise Guardrails for Information Security, outlines a comprehensive framework for securing agentic AI in the enterprise. Notably, CalypsoAI is cited among potential vendors in the Application Security and DevSecOps domain that embed protection throughout the AI lifecycle.

CalypsoAI believes his research validates a shift that we have championed since day one: proactive, inference-first AI security is essential.

Why Agentic AI Changes the Game

According to Forrester, agentic AI introduces five critical security challenges for CISOs:

  1. Emergent behaviors are incentivized: agents can adapt to obstacles, potentially escalating privileges or bypassing controls.
  2. The detection surface doesn’t yet exist: as agentic ecosystems expand, observability and response capabilities lag behind.
  3. Intent becomes as important as outcomes: compromised intent, whether through prompt injection or goal hijacking, can lead to critical breaches.
  4. Cascading failures amplify risk: corrupted data or hallucinations can propagate across agents, triggering systemic breakdowns.
  5. Autonomous, infinitely scalable agents increase operational strain: humans in the loop face new challenges like decision fatigue at scale.

These dynamics demand continuous, adaptive guardrails, which is precisely what Forrester’s AEGIS Framework prescribes.

The AEGIS Framework at a Glance

Forrester’s AEGIS Framework identifies six core domains for agentic AI security:

  1. Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC): modernizing policies with machine-executable, context-aware enforcement.
  2. Identity and Access Management (IAM): treating agents as hybrid identities with just-in-time privileges and human oversight.
  3. Data Security and Privacy: ensuring data integrity, unified governance, and privacy-preserving AI operations.
  4. Application Security and DevSecOps: embedding security throughout the AI lifecycle, including prompt engineering and supply chain validation.
  5. Threat Management and Security Operations: implementing real-time monitoring, logging, and detection engineering for AI-specific risks.
  6. Zero Trust Principles: enforcing “least agency,” where an agent only has the minimal permissions required to achieve its goals.

A phased approach is recommended, starting with GRC, progressing through IAM, data security, and application security, then expanding to full SecOps and Zero Trust maturity.

How CalypsoAI Aligns with AEGIS

CalypsoAI delivers a purpose-built Inference gateway that addresses the very capabilities AEGIS calls for:

Proactive Red-Teaming (Application Security & Threat Management)

Our Inference Red-Team solutions uncovers vulnerabilities through Agentic Warfare™, Agentic Fingerprints, and Signature Attack Packs, simulating multi-turn, real-world adversarial behavior. This aligns with AEGIS’s emphasis on continuous testing, supply chain validation, and purple-teaming exercises.

Real-Time Defense (GRC & Zero Trust)

Inference Defend blocks prompt injections, jailbreaks, and data exfiltration attempts in real time, enforcing least agency and policy-as-code across models and applications. Our EU AI Act Scanner Package and Custom Scanner Versioning enable dynamic, regulatory-aligned security, which are critical for AEGIS’s call for executable, context-aware governance.

Continuous Observability & Logging (Threat Management & SecOps)

Inference Observe provides unified visibility, audit-ready logs and anomaly detection across all AI interactions.

With our new Splunk Integration, security teams can ingest CalypsoAI logs directly into their SIEM/SOAR workflows, meeting the AEGIS requirement for comprehensive logging, monitoring, and incident response readiness. This integration accelerates detection engineering and simplifies compliance by aligning AI telemetry with enterprise logging standards.

Explainable Outcomes & Continuous Assurance (All Domains)

With Outcome Analysis and security scoring, CalypsoAI makes AI security transparent and actionable. Teams can see exactly why a scanner flagged an event, track potential threats, and prioritize response, fulfilling AEGIS’s principle that agentic guardrails must be explainable to both people and systems.

Together, these capabilities map directly to the AEGIS vision of enterprise-ready, continuous, and adaptive AI security.

The Bottom Line

Forrester’s AEGIS Framework reinforces a reality security leaders can no longer ignore: Agentic AI is here, and static controls are not enough.

Organizations that implement inference-first, agent-powered security will:

  • Reduce systemic risk from autonomous AI behaviors.
  • Achieve real-time visibility and control over agentic workflows.
  • Accelerate safe, compliant agentic AI adoption at enterprise scale.

CalypsoAI is built for this moment. Our platform unifies red-teaming, real-time defense, observability, and compliance into a single Inference gateway, giving enterprises the confidence to deploy agentic AI safely and responsibly.

Ready to align with AEGIS and secure your AI future? Talk to our team today.

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Custom Scanner Versioning: Evolving AI Defensive Controls for Optimal Agility https://calypsoai.com/insights/custom-scanner-versioning/ Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:06:49 +0000 https://calypsoai.com/?post_type=insight&p=42460 Enterprises deploying AI applications need agility to keep security aligned with evolving use cases, policies, and regulations. With Inference Defend, organizations already gain powerful defensive controls (or guardrails) that block threats, prevent data leaks, and enforce security policies in real time. Now, with Custom Scanner Versioning, these controls are more flexible, testable, and adaptable than […]

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Enterprises deploying AI applications need agility to keep security aligned with evolving use cases, policies, and regulations. With Inference Defend, organizations already gain powerful defensive controls (or guardrails) that block threats, prevent data leaks, and enforce security policies in real time. Now, with Custom Scanner Versioning, these controls are more flexible, testable, and adaptable than ever.

What Custom Scanner Versioning Is and How It Works

Custom Scanner Versioning is a new feature in Inference Defend that gives security teams full lifecycle control of their AI scanners. It allows you to:

  • Create unlimited versions of the same scanner, using either custom or automatically incremented names.
  • Test multiple versions simultaneously to compare detection performance and coverage.
  • Publish and roll back versions without disrupting live projects.
  • Enforce version control at the project level or allow projects to run different versions of the same scanner.
  • Filter version history to quickly view published vs. unpublished versions and see which projects can access each version.

With versioning, security teams can continuously improve detection accuracy and deploy updates confidently, knowing production applications remain protected.

Why Versioning Matters

Custom Scanner Versioning gives enterprises greater agility and precision in their AI security operations. By enabling easy iteration, side-by-side testing, and controlled deployment of scanner updates, security teams can continuously strengthen their defenses as new detection logic is developed. This flexibility allows teams to align scanner versions with project-specific needs, ensuring that every application receives the most appropriate level of protection. At the same time, the structured approach to testing and improvement optimizes detection performance, resulting in a more adaptive, resilient, and enterprise-ready AI defense tool that keeps security postures ahead of evolving threats.

Use Cases

Custom Scanner Versioning empowers enterprises to strengthen their AI security posture in ways that weren’t possible before.

Rapid Response to Emerging Threats

When a new adversarial prompt or jailbreak technique surfaces, security teams can immediately develop a new scanner version to detect it. With versioning, that scanner can be tested in parallel against the current production version, compared for accuracy, and published the moment it’s ready—without introducing downtime or operational risk. This transforms AI security from reactive to adaptive, giving teams the confidence to meet new threats as they emerge.

Regulatory and Policy Changes

Another major use case is adapting to regulatory and policy changes. Enterprises today face a constantly shifting compliance landscape, from data privacy regulations to emerging AI-specific rules like the EU AI Act. Custom Scanner Versioning allows organizations to roll out new detection logic or policy-aligned scanners quickly and methodically. Teams can deploy updated versions to select projects or environments, validate performance, and then scale them across the enterprise, enabling compliance without slowing down innovation.

Environment-Specific Customization

Finally, environment-specific customization is critical for large organizations operating across multiple teams, regions, or application types. Different business units may have unique risk profiles or regulatory obligations. Custom Scanner Versioning allows each environment to run the scanner version that best aligns with its needs, while maintaining centralized visibility and control. This means security leaders can empower teams to innovate locally without compromising global governance.

Advancing Enterprise AI Defense with Greater Agility

Custom Scanner Versioning elevates Inference Defend from by giving security teams greater precision and flexibility in how they manage and evolve their AI defensive controls. With the ability to test, version, and deploy new scanners seamlessly, enterprises can refine detection logic, respond to emerging threats, and adapt to evolving compliance requirements—all without disrupting production workflows.

This feature strengthens an already dynamic AI security solution, empowering enterprises to stay proactive, agile, and resilient in the face of an ever-changing AI threat landscape.

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Agentic Signature Attack Packs: Red Team AI for the Next Generation of Security https://calypsoai.com/insights/agentic-signature-attack-packs/ Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:58:01 +0000 https://calypsoai.com/?post_type=insight&p=42458 Every new capability that GenAI introduces comes with new vulnerabilities. As a result, companies must red team AI regularly to proactively uncover weaknesses and secure AI applications before attackers exploit them.  That’s where CalypsoAI’s Signature Attack Packs come in. These are monthly collections of curated “test attacks” designed to uncover vulnerabilities in AI systems. Each […]

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Every new capability that GenAI introduces comes with new vulnerabilities. As a result, companies must red team AI regularly to proactively uncover weaknesses and secure AI applications before attackers exploit them. 

That’s where CalypsoAI’s Signature Attack Packs come in. These are monthly collections of curated “test attacks” designed to uncover vulnerabilities in AI systems. Each pack contains high-impact adversarial prompts that let security teams safely see how their models respond to realistic threats—without having to develop every attack in-house. Think of them as ready-made red team exercises for AI, built to expose weaknesses before attackers find them.

With our new agentic process, the creation of these packs is now fully automated. An AI agent:

  • Researches emerging attack techniques and potential vulnerabilities
  • Generates and tests adversarial prompts against real models
  • Packages only the most effective attacks for enterprise use

This turns red teaming into a continuous, autonomous process that delivers fresh, real-world attacks to customers every month without adding overhead to their security teams.

Why It Matters

Modern AI threats are autonomous, adaptive, and high-impact. Deploying an untested AI model, application or agent can lead to prompt injection and jailbreak attacks, exposure of sensitive data or intellectual property, or compliance failures under regulations like the EU AI Act

CalypsoAI’s agent-powered Signature Attack Packs directly address these risks by providing: 

  • Continuous Threat Coverage: Monthly curated attacks keep your testing current with minimal effort.
  • Faster Risk Discovery: The Red-Team agent evaluates more attack vectors in less time than human teams could.
  • Increased Precision: Packs improve every month as the agent is fine-tuned for better detection.
  • Proven Results: These same attacks power the CalypsoAI Security Index (CASI) Leaderboard, which regularly exposes vulnerabilities in the world’s top models.
  • Proof of AI Defending AI: This agent is powering real-world red-teaming today.

How Agentic Attack Packs are Used to Red Team AI

CalypsoAI’s agentic Signature Attack Packs are designed to solve real problems that security and AI teams face daily. Here’s how organizations are using them in practice:

Validate Models Before Deployment

Launching a new AI model without testing is like deploying an app without a security review. Signature Attack Packs allow teams to red-team AI systems in a safe, controlled way before they ever interact with live users or sensitive data. For example, a global bank can simulate prompt injections that might trick a model into revealing financial data, ensuring vulnerabilities are found before production, not after a breach.

Continuously Test Deployed AI

Threats to AI don’t stop after launch, they evolve. With monthly updates, Signature Attack Packs provide continuous red-teaming for AI systems, ensuring security posture isn’t frozen in time. Enterprises with customer-facing chatbots or RAG applications can automatically run fresh attacks each month, catching new exploits before attackers do.

Meet Compliance and Governance Standards

Regulations like the EU AI Act demand proactive measures to prevent prohibited behaviors and data exposure. By using Signature Attack Packs, organizations can generate clear, audit-ready evidence that they’ve actively tested their AI systems against high-risk scenarios. A healthcare provider, for example, can demonstrate that its AI tools are not vulnerable to leaking patient data, which in turn, protects both regulatory standing and brand trust.

Support Executive Risk Reporting

CISOs and security leaders need to translate complex AI risks into actionable insights for the business. Each month’s testing generates data that can be summarized through CASI scores and vulnerability reports, giving leadership clear visibility into evolving AI risks. This narrative shifts AI security from a reactive function to a strategic business enabler, allowing executives to make confident decisions about scaling AI adoption.

Red Team AI: Turning Defense Into a Competitive Advantage

By introducing agentic Signature Attack Packs, CalypsoAI is redefining red-teaming for AI. These packs combine curated, high-impact attacks with the speed and autonomy of AI, creating a self-updating AI red team in a box.

Enterprises gain continuous visibility into model weaknesses, actionable insights for remediation, and the confidence to deploy generative AI securely and at scale. See how autonomous AI red teaming can secure your AI applications.

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Visualize the Attack: Gen AI Pentesting Gets an Upgrade with Agentic Fingerprints https://calypsoai.com/insights/agentic-fingerprints/ Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:45:42 +0000 https://calypsoai.com/?post_type=insight&p=42453 You can’t defend what you can’t see. That’s the problem with Gen AI pentesting today. It tells you whether an attack worked, but not how it unfolded or why your defenses failed. For security leaders trying to evaluate AI readiness, that’s a serious blind spot. Agentic Fingerprints changes that. It’s a new capability in CalypsoAI’s […]

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You can’t defend what you can’t see. That’s the problem with Gen AI pentesting today. It tells you whether an attack worked, but not how it unfolded or why your defenses failed. For security leaders trying to evaluate AI readiness, that’s a serious blind spot.

Agentic Fingerprints changes that. It’s a new capability in CalypsoAI’s Inference Red-Team that gives you full visibility into how AI agents execute adversarial attacks step-by-step, decision-by-decision. Think of it as a play-by-play of how an agent broke your AI system.

What Is Agentic Fingerprints and How Does it Work?

Agentic Fingerprints is a new feature within Inference Red-Team, CalypsoAI’s solution for automated GenAI security testing. It provides deep observability into one of the most advanced adversarial attack methods in AI security today: Agentic Warfare.

Agentic Warfare uses CalypsoAI’s Red Agent to run complex, multi-turn attacks, adapting in real-time to revise prompts, backtrack when blocked, and strategize like a real adversary would. Agentic Fingerprints gives you a visual, interactive map of the Red Agent’s behavior to show every decision, prompt, and action taken, allowing you to:

  • Visualize the entire attack path: from initial intent to successful breach or failure
  • Click into any decision point to reveal:
    • The Red Agent’s reasoning at that step
    • The prompts sent and responses received
    • Why it chose to proceed, adapt, or pivot
  • Understand the model’s vulnerabilities and look for patterns

Here’s How It Works:

 

It’s the first tool that turns complex GenAI pentesting into a clear, navigable experience that enables a deep understanding of the reasoning behind agentic attacks.

Why this Matters for Gen AI Pentesting

Most pentesting tools show you what broke. Agentic Fingerprints show you how it broke and why your existing defenses didn’t stop it. Here’s why that’s a major leap forward.

Transparent Agent Behavior

The Red Agent behaves like a real attacker, adjusting prompts, strategizing next moves, and shifting tactics mid-attack. Agentic Fingerprints allow you to follow the logic step-by-step.

Explainability for Audit and Governance

Agentic Fingerprints provide an audit trail of every decision made during testing. That means security leaders and compliance teams can:

  • Trace risky model behavior back to root-cause
  • Prove due diligence with visual, shareable reports
  • Debug and improve AI systems with confidence

A Foundation for BYO Agents (Coming Soon)

Today, Agentic Fingerprints supports CalypsoAI’s Red Agents. Soon, enterprises will be able to visualize and audit their own agents, laying the groundwork for full lifecycle agent observability and governance. 

The Result: Agentic Red-Teaming That’s Visible, Verifiable, and Valuable

With Agentic Fingerprints, security teams get more than static results or one-line summaries. They get a dynamic, fully traceable view of how attacks unfold. This level of transparency empowers red teams to pinpoint weaknesses faster. It enables security leaders to validate testing rigor. It arms GRC teams with defensible evidence for audits and risk assessments. 

Agentic Fingerprints sets a new baseline to secure AI systems against intelligent, adaptive threats. Because it’s not just about seeing where the model or application broke, but knowing why and what to do next.

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Outcome Analysis and How It Improves AI Threat Detection https://calypsoai.com/insights/outcome-analysis/ Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:21:15 +0000 https://calypsoai.com/?post_type=insight&p=42443 CalypsoAI’s Inference Defend AI security solution has a new feature, Outcome Analysis, that is purpose-built to enhance visibility and control in AI threat detection workflows. As part of Defend’s real-time protection layer, Outcome Analysis helps security teams understand exactly why a scanner (or guardrail) flagged or blocked a prompt or response, eliminating guesswork and accelerating […]

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CalypsoAI’s Inference Defend AI security solution has a new feature, Outcome Analysis, that is purpose-built to enhance visibility and control in AI threat detection workflows. As part of Defend’s real-time protection layer, Outcome Analysis helps security teams understand exactly why a scanner (or guardrail) flagged or blocked a prompt or response, eliminating guesswork and accelerating resolution.

Outcome Analysis enables security teams to see:

  • Which version of a scanner was triggered
  • What exact content or rule violation caused the block
  • Which user or agent was involved

This enhancement provides actionable insight to make AI threat detection faster, more precise, and easier to manage at scale.

Why Context Is Critical for Enterprise AI Threat Detection

As organizations scale GenAI applications, alert fatigue and false positives become real risks. Security teams often struggle to understand why a scanner triggered, especially when reviewing encoded prompts or extremely verbose LLM responses.

Outcome Analysis solves this by offering:

  • Root-cause insight into prompt and response violations
  • Faster investigation and resolution with timestamped user context
  • Policy comparison across scanner version and deployments
  • Validation of scanner performance for tuning and reporting

This helps organizations move from reactive defenses to adaptive AI threat detection, enabling high-speed innovation without sacrificing visibility or compliance.

Use Cases: From Alert to Action Across the AI Stack

Outcome Analysis strengthens threat detection across the GenAI security lifecycle. Common enterprise use cases include:

  • SOC and incident response teams investigating blocked or flagged events
  • AI security analysts understanding and validating the context behind an alert or false positive
  • Project teams or application developers comparing scanner performance and behavior across models, applications, and workflows
  • Governance and compliance leads generating audit-ready evidence for flagged activity

A Better Way to Handle Threats at Runtime

Whether you’re securing a customer-facing chatbot, internal copilot, or agentic workflow, Outcome Analysis gives teams the clarity they need to act with confidence.

CalypsoAI’s Inference Defend AI security solution already provides real-time AI runtime protection, blocking 97% of harmful prompts with 95% decision accuracy. With Outcome Analysis, you don’t just stop threats, you understand them. This feature represents a critical step toward transparent, intelligent AI threat detection that evolves with your business and its unique risk landscape.

Ready to See Outcome Analysis in Action?

Outcome Analysis is now available as part of Inference Defend. If your team is serious about AI threat detection and GenAI governance, this is the feature that connects the dots between signal and strategy.

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EU AI Act Compliance Just Got Easier https://calypsoai.com/insights/eu-ai-act-compliance-just-got-easier/ Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:11:37 +0000 https://calypsoai.com/?post_type=insight&p=42434 How do you operationalize the EU AI Act, especially its most serious prohibitions, across your AI systems? For teams deploying GenAI, aligning with Article 5’s “prohibited risk” provisions presents a unique challenge: many of the most serious violations, like manipulative behavior, biometric surveillance, or social scoring, aren’t easily caught by traditional security tools. CalypsoAI’s Inference […]

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How do you operationalize the EU AI Act, especially its most serious prohibitions, across your AI systems? For teams deploying GenAI, aligning with Article 5’s “prohibited risk” provisions presents a unique challenge: many of the most serious violations, like manipulative behavior, biometric surveillance, or social scoring, aren’t easily caught by traditional security tools.

CalypsoAI’s Inference Defend solution now has a dedicated EU AI Act Scanner Package, which offers a tangible starting point. If you’ve done nothing yet to prepare, this is the first step towards compliance. It delivers baseline coverage for the most severe risks, which helps enterprises detect and prevent violations specific to Article 5’s “prohibited risk” category.

How CalypsoAI’s Scanner Package Automates AI Regulatory Compliance Under the EU AI Act

The EU AI Act Scanner Package is designed to identify and block AI-generated outputs that fall into the “prohibited” category of the Act—use cases that are banned outright and subject to fines of up to €35 million or 7% of global turnover.

This package focuses exclusively on the four prohibited clusters outlined in Article 5, and does not cover “high-risk” or “limited-risk” categories. That’s by design. The EU AI Act Scanner Package provides a frontline safety net to protect your GenAI systems from triggering the most damaging legal and reputational outcomes.

Each scanner was developed using a hybrid methodology combining AutoPrompt generation with expert manual review, evaluated against a custom dataset of 2,698 examples. This dataset includes:

  • Labeled positive cases from real-world and synthetic enterprise data
  • Edge-case examples to improve generalization
  • Balanced distribution to ensure reliable performance at runtime

The result is a high-accuracy, production-ready detection layer that maps directly to the EU AI Act’s “prohibited risk” enforcement thresholds.

Why Real-Time AI Compliance Monitoring Is Essential for EU AI Act Readiness

What Problem Does the EU AI Act Scanner Package Solve?

Few organizations have the internal resources to map outputs to legal risk under the EU AI Act, let alone do so at runtime. Many companies are unaware that AI-generated outputs can be non-compliant even when using off-the-shelf models.

Without automated inference-layer detection, organizations risk:

  • Unknowingly deploying prohibited use cases
  • Falling short of AI regulatory compliance audits
  • Suffering brand damage and multi-million euro penalties

What’s the Outcome?

The EU AI Act Scanner Package brings clarity and automation to an otherwise ambiguous and labor-intensive compliance challenge. Specifically, it enables:

  • Real-time enforcement of prohibited behaviors defined under Article 5 of the EU AI Act
  • Enterprise-wide consistency, regardless of model type or deployment architecture
  • Audit-ready documentation via structured logging of flagged incidents

By integrating this package, security and compliance teams gain the ability to enforce compliance proactively, before regulators or end users uncover violations.

GenAI Use Cases at Risk: How to Ensure AI Regulatory Compliance

The scanners in this package are optimized to analyze text generated by GenAI applications in real-time, making them a critical control layer. Example applications include: 

AI Copilots and Chatbots

Risk: Manipulating users with emotionally suggestive or coercive language

Coverage: Manipulation, Surveillance

Decision-Support Tools (e.g., HR, Finance)

Risk: Generating social scoring outputs that impact users’ access to services or roles

Coverage: Social Scoring

GenAI-Powered Image and Facial Recognition Models

Risk: Collecting or referencing biometric data scraped from public spaces

Coverage: Biometric Data Harvesting

Emotion-Detecting Tutors or Coaches

Risk: Inferring emotional states of users in educational or workplace settings

Coverage: Surveillance

Autonomous AI Agents

Risk: Independently generating or chaining risky prompts in sensitive environments

Coverage: All four scanners, depending on output

Built for What the EU AI Act Demands

AI innovation doesn’t have to come at the cost of compliance. With high-performance classifiers trained on domain-specific data, CalypsoAI’s EU AI Act Scanner Package provides a scalable, high-accuracy safety net that’s specifically designed to block the most damaging AI behaviors before they escalate into violations.

As the EU AI Act sets a global standard for AI governance, CalypsoAI is proud to offer the first scanner suite aligned to its most critical requirements.

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