Peter Garraghan

CEO at Mindgard

Peter Garraghan currently serves as CEO of Mindgard since May 2022 and holds multiple academic roles at Lancaster University, including Professor, Reader, and Lecturer since September 2016. Additionally, Peter is an EPSRC Fellow starting in 2021. Previous experience includes roles as Director at Slingshot Simulations from 2015 to 2018, Founding Member/Contributor at Edgetic from 2014 to 2016, and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Leeds during the same period. Peter's early career includes working as a Software Engineer at HP from 2008 to 2009. Peter earned a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from the University of Leeds.

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Mindgard

Mindgard is an AI security company that helps enterprise to test, detect, and respond to adversarial threats against their AI models. Given that businesses are increasingly focused on offering AI-driven services such as LLMs, securing this new way of conducting business is equally important. Mindgard ensures that your business can safely and securely move into the new AI world and continue to protect your digital assets, brand and reputation. Our platform enables enterprise customers to determine, detect, and remediate against any adversarial attack vulnerabilities within all their AI models. This answers the “What is my AI risk?” and “How do I mitigate my AI risk?” questions that currently cannot be answered using traditional Cyber Security platforms. By designing our platform from the ground up to integrate with existing AI and Cyber Security operational tooling, Mindgard can be seamlessly added to your organization, providing repeatable and automated AI model vulnerability testing. The Mindgard platform has been in development for over 4 years based on cutting edge PhD-led, AI & cyber security research, also used by the global Intelligence Community. As well as providing a library of adversarial attacks based on deep research, leveraging our platform that can automate repeated security testing, detection, and response across the entire AI estate. By leveraging the Mindgard platform, our clients free up precious AI and cyber security resources and at the same time understand, detect, and mitigate risks across their entire AI model portfolio, which currently takes too long and is too expensive. Our platform ensures that business can rapidly embrace LLMs and other AI technologies whilst protecting their digital assets, brand, and reputation within the new AI world.


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