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Lakera is heading to Black Hat USA 2025 to connect with security leaders and showcase how we’re securing GenAI applications at scale with real-time protection and AI red teaming—book a meeting with us in Las Vegas.

Help Net Security highlights how The Motley Fool uses Lakera’s AI security platform to implement guardrails and reduce LLM risks when scaling GenAI.

Yahoo Finance features Lakera’s launch of the AI Model Risk Index, a new standard for evaluating the security of large language models (LLMs).

Lakera releases the AI Model Risk Index, the most comprehensive, realistic, and contextually relevant measure of model security for AI systems.

Lakera has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in Gartner’s AI Trust, Risk and Security Management Report (AI TRiSM).

Citi Ventures invests in Lakera, the leading solution for securing AI applications at run-time.

Lakera, a Swiss startup that’s building technology to protect generative AI applications from malicious prompts and other threats, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by European venture capital firm, Atomico.

With its robust capabilities, Lakera Guard helps us secure and protect user data, and—as outlined in our AI principles—uphold the reliability and trustworthiness of our intelligent features.

Ninety-five percent of cybersecurity experts express low confidence in GenAI security measures while red team data shows anyone can easily hack GenAI models

Our findings reveal a rapid adoption of GenAI technologies, with nearly 90% of organizations actively implementing or planning to explore LLM use cases. Despite this high adoption rate, only about 5% of organizations feel highly confident in their AI security preparedness.

It’s the potential nightmare that haunts Fortune 500 company leaders working to develop chatbots and other generative AI applications: Hackers figure out how to trick their AI into revealing sensitive corporate or customer data.

Lakera announces $20M Series A funding to secure GenAI. Read more below.

Gandalf, our viral prompt-injection game and the world’s most popular AI security education platform, gets the new look and feel.

Watch David Haber’s RSA Conference 2024 talk on advancing AI security with insights from the world’s largest AI red team.

Gartner's report on GenAI security risks recognizes Lakera's solutions.

Lakera's technology has been recognized by NIST in their report on Adversarial Machine Learning.

Join our CEO, David Haber, and Elias Groll from CyberScoop in a discussion on AI security.

Lakera recognized by Help Net Security as a leading cybersecurity startup for 2024.

Microsoft's PyRIT toolkit highlights Lakera's Gandalf game, showcasing advancements in AI system security.

Lakera makes the list of top startups to watch in 2024, and is named a leader in LLM security in a poll among investors conducted by Sifted.

Read about key insights on AI safety straight from the World Economic Forum 2024.

At Lakera, Daniel will help drive company strategy and expansion and enable enterprises to focus on building the most exciting AI applications securely by protecting them in the world of AI cyber risk. 

Fellow "AI Safety Unplugged” panelists include Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta, Max Tegmark, MIT Professor & President of the Future of Institute, and Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, Head of Safety at Cohere

We’re thrilled to unveil Lakera's new branding—a new identity for our company that reflects our strengthened commitment to empowering developers as they integrate cutting-edge GenAI applications.

Financial Times lists Lakera in Tech Champions 2023 for our contributions to AI security.

Lakera named among Switzerland’s top startups for 2024, highlighting our focus on secure AI.

Lakera hosted its first webinar Life vs ImageNet last week. We had exciting discussions around the main challenges in building Machine Learning (ML) for real-world applications.

Lakera’s co-founder and CEO, David, joined Jb Aviat (Staff Engineer at Datadog) and Izar Tarandach (Sr. Staff Engineer at Datadog) on the Datadog Cloud Security Lounge podcast to chat about LLMs, security, Gandalf, and everything in between.

Lakera and Cohere come together with a shared goal—to define new LLM security standards and empower organizations to confidently deploy LLM-based systems at scale.

We are proud to announce that we have achieved SOC 2 Type I compliance for Lakera Guard in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) standards for SOC for Service Organizations, also known as SSAE 18. We have successfully completed a AICPA SOC2 Type I Audit performed by Prescient Assurance.

Here are our key takeaways from DEFCON31—one of the most prominent cybersecurity conference held in Las Vegas from August 10th to 13th 2023.

Get ready to embark on an exciting AI security adventure with Mosscap! Inspired by the captivating "Monk and Robot" series, Lakera’s team has worked tirelessly to create a fun and educational experience, shedding light on prompt injection vulnerabilities present in LLMs.

The paper that we have now published in Nature summarizes the results and derives general recommendations for the collection of test datasets in pathology and medical imaging.

Lakera wins the DEKRA Award 2021 in the category "Startups". The company was selected by the DEKRA jury for the final and won the online voting. Lakera AI from Zurich / Switzerland wants to use a validation platform to ensure that AI is transparent, safe, and trustworthy.