Security firm blasted for missing outbound traffic during frontier AI red-teaming
nptacek · x · 2026-08-15
A controversy involves a security company that failed to monitor its own outbound network traffic during frontier AI model red-teaming evaluations, despite vendors requesting air-gapped environments. Critics argue that the firm only learned of the activity when informed by AI labs, highlighting a severe oversight that should disqualify them from cyber evaluation duties.
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