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Building AI on a Foundation of Open Source Requires a

Fundamentally New Approach to Application Security

By Nadav Czerninski, Co-Founder and CEO, Oligo Security

AI has sprung from the pages of science fiction into our daily lives.

The AI revolution is now accelerating, enabled by open-source software (OSS) models. These models
are complex packages of open-source code made specifically for developing AI, allowing organizations
to deploy AI models efficiently and at scale.

While most organizations ensure that any given line of standard open-source code is checked for
vulnerabilities, the larger open-source models they deploy often escape the same scrutiny.

A series of recently discovered vulnerabilities highlights how supply chain attacks can be executed
through malicious OSS models. This discovery raises concerns regarding the fragility of open-source
models and the security of AI systems overall, emphasizing the critical need for stringent OSS security
measures amid AI’s rapidly increasing popularity.

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