By Malcolm Harkins, Chief Security & Trust Officer, HiddenLayer
I have spent most of my career arguing that security is fundamentally an execution problem, not an information problem. Most organizations know what they need to do. They just can't get it done fast enough, consistently enough, or with the team size they have.
At HiddenLayer, we protect organizations from threats targeting AI and ML systems. Our own security program is lean by design. That means every hour of manual work is an hour taken away from something more important.
Before Axari, our vulnerability management process had a frustrating gap. Snyk was finding vulnerabilities. Jira tickets were being created. But between the finding and the fix, there was a wall of manual triage that fell on engineers who had other things to do.
Vulnerabilities with no available fix still generated tickets. Indirect dependency issues showed up with no explanation. The same vulnerability in four deployment environments created four separate tickets that felt like four separate problems. Developers started losing trust in the queue.
We brought in Axari to close that gap.
Axari now reviews every open vulnerability ticket, checks whether a fix actually exists, and updates the ticket with the right context before it reaches an engineer. If there is no fix, the ticket reflects that and moves to the right state automatically. When a fix does become available, it reopens. Engineers get a cleaner queue. The noise goes down. The trust in the system goes back up.
We also run daily supply chain checks through Axari. When a new malicious package is disclosed, it checks every relevant repository automatically. What used to require several people, two or more hours, and someone always being the one to initiate it now runs on a schedule and produces a report. No scramble. No dependency on a specific person being available.
The way I think about Axari is straightforward: the security stack tells you what is wrong. Axari gets the work done. That is the layer most security programs are still missing.
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Malcolm Harkins is Chief Security & Trust Officer at HiddenLayer and an advisor to Axari.
