Practical guidance on AI Security, governance and emerging threats
QL Security is a finalist for Start-Up of the Year at the Cambridge Independent Business Awards 2026. Winners are named on 24 September at King's College.
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How to prove your AI controls are working to auditors and boards, using verification evidence packs mapped to ISO 42001 and EU AI Act objectives. For UK CISOs.
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An end-to-end AI security programme covers assessment, governance, testing and monitoring in one engagement. One accountable team, one coherent evidence trail.
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A practical, security-led starter framework: the ten essentials every UK organisation needs in its AI governance programme, from inventory to evidence.
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A CISO AI risk checklist gives you twelve board-ready questions covering shadow AI, model governance, data leakage, vendor risk and regulatory exposure.
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Ungoverned AI adoption is a security risk, not just a wellbeing one. When productivity gains outpace review controls, unchecked output becomes your exposure.
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Shadow AI is AI used inside an organisation without approval or oversight. What counts as shadow AI, the four core risks it creates and what to do about it.
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LLM penetration testing is adversarial assessment of a language-model application: model, prompts, retrieved data and tools as one system. QL Security's four-stage red-team method.
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How to test for prompt injection: map untrusted input points, run direct and indirect attacks, and measure whether the model leaks data, ignores guardrails or acts.
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QL Security's four-stage shadow AI discovery methodology: authority mapping, evidence gathering, risk assessment and governance handover. A practitioner's guide.
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How prompt injection testing works, what a defensible test corpus contains and the reproducible evidence auditors accept for AI behaviour verification. For UK CISOs.
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The step-by-step ISO 42001 certification route for UK organisations: scoping, gap analysis, AIMS build, internal audit and the two-stage external audit, from a Lead Auditor's vantage point.
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QL Security is a finalist in two categories at the SME National Business Awards 2026, Best New Business and Business Innovation. Here is what the double listing tests and why checkable recognition matters in a young discipline.
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Agentic AI testing verifies agents that chain actions across tools and APIs, not single model outputs. The five areas boards need evidenced before approving production.
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AlloyDB Remote MCP Server is GA and agent data access is now a production concern. A repeatable field checklist for CISOs: authentication scoping, tool permissions, audit logging and egress limits.
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Long-running AI agents accumulate standing privileges and persistent state. The three controls that keep a compromised agent contained, mapped to OWASP AITG and the NCSC AI code of practice.
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Shadow AI has moved past chat tools. How to discover the autonomous agents holding standing credentials to your production data through runtimes and MCP connectors.
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Detection tools give you a list. Governance gives you a defensible position. Why shadow AI discovery is an ISO 42001 readiness exercise, not a product purchase.
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Employees are building AI agents that reach live systems without procurement. Why your existing governance misses them, and how to surface and assure them.
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How EU AI Act Article 99 fines scale by obligation tier, why a high-risk classification sets your exposure, and the records UK organisations must evidence.
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Article 6 is the gateway test that decides whether an AI system is high-risk under the EU AI Act. How the two-limb test, Annex III and the 6(3) derogation work for UK organisations.
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AI red teaming and LLM penetration testing solve different problems. What each covers, why UK boards own the evidence, and how often to test production systems.
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How ISO 42001 Annex A controls give UK financial services and healthcare boards one evidence base that satisfies ICO, FCA and MHRA expectations.
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The seven stages of building an AI agent, seen from the risk function's side of the table: the governance decision your security team should own at each one.
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QL Security has won the Most Disruptive Brand Award at the Branded Retreat. Here is what we think the recognition rewards, and why our integrated model matters for the organisations we work with.
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Seven evidence categories UK certifiers ask for in ISO 42001 audits, the stage 1 vs stage 2 split, and how long preparation actually takes.
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ISO 27001 secures information assets. ISO 42001 governs AI systems. A practical guide for UK organisations deciding which standard they need.
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Model Context Protocol servers are the connective tissue between AI agents and your production estate. A new privileged broker your CISO has not yet mapped.
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A four-step retroactive AI tool security review for IT Directors who deployed AI before a governance framework was in place.
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Under UK company law, the board carries ultimate accountability for AI risk. A practical CEO-accountable, executive-responsible RACI framework.
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Most ISO 42001 implementations treat the standard as ISO 27001 with new labels. A field guide on what good looks like and what to ask before you sign.
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CASB, DLP, browser telemetry, SaaS logs, endpoint detection, employee reporting - which actually find unsanctioned AI? A practical guide.
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A practical ISO 42001 readiness checklist for UK GRC teams: governance, risk, lifecycle controls, suppliers and evidence - step by step.
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AI Security is the discipline of protecting AI systems and the organisations that use them. A plain-English guide for UK businesses and CISOs.
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Most organisations use more AI tools than they realise. A practical shadow AI discovery approach that security teams can start using today.
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What an AI Security gap analysis covers, what it typically finds and how organisations use the results to prioritise their security programme.
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What Barclays Bank learned about digital transformation that every organisation deploying AI needs to understand. Why 85% of AI projects fail - and how trained internal champions can change those odds...
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Boards, customers, auditors and regulators are all asking the same question: can you prove your AI is secure? Here's what each stakeholder wants and how to respond.
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Not all AI usage is the same. Learn how to classify your organisation's AI adoption using AWS's Generative AI Security Scoping Matrix and understand what security you actually need.
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