Mindgard Ltd


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Aims

Founded as a spinout of Lancaster University in 2022, Mindgard Ltd is a London based deep-tech company specialising in cyber security for AI.

Overview

Founded as a spinout of Lancaster University in 2022, Mindgard Ltd is a London based deep-tech company specialising in cyber security for AI. The team share a wide range of experience in working with global tech and defence giants and driving industry policy making, and have formed multiple companies in the tech industry.

Their product allows organisations to easily undertake an automated threat assessment of their AI technology against hundreds of different attack scenarios, utilising years of research in science and engineering to produce fast results. AI assets can be safeguarded throughout their entire lifecycle through Mindgard, and it integrates seamlessly into existing security ecosystems.

Resulting from their cutting-edge approach in the increasingly important cyber security industry, Mindgard were recently recognised at the UK’s Most Innovative Cyber SME at the prestigious Infosecurity Europe 2024 event.

Results and Outcomes

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Founded in 2022 at world-renowned Lancaster University and now based in London, Mindgard empowers enterprise security teams to deploy AI and GenAI securely. Mindgard’s core product – born from ten years of rigorous R&D in AI security – offers an automated platform for continuous security testing and red teaming of AI. In 2023, Mindgard secured $4 million in funding, backed by leading investors such as IQ Capital and Lakestar.

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Powered by world's largest attack library for AI, GenAI, and LLMs, Mindgard enables security teams to swiftly identify and remediate security vulnerabilities to unlock the value of AI/GenAI for businesses. Our platform is neural network agnostic, and works across GenAI, LLM, NLP, audio, image, and multi-modal. Businesses can security test their AI against all major attack types, including multi-modal attacks and multi-turn jailbreaks, and track and control the security posture of their AI continuously.

Our frictionless MLOPs pipeline integration secures enterprises across the AI/ML pipeline, and MITRE ATLAS & OWASP risk categorization allows businesses to report AI security posture against MITRE & OWASP. Our AI threat intel grants comprehensive risk analytics to discover, report, and remediate security vulnerabilities against a business' AI. Mindgard also enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of security processes for AI to streamline and automate tasks.


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