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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I explain why Workday believes AI security is becoming an ecosystem problem that no single vendor can solve independently.
Highlights
00:06 — Workday has become the latest organization to join the Open Secure AI Alliance. It’s a well-supported initiative that aims to improve the security of AI systems through open-source tools, research, and knowledge sharing. Workday’s joining this alliance, and it’s in very good company alongside companies like NVIDIA, Cloudflare, Microsoft, and IBM.
00:31 — I want to read a short passage from Workday’s joining announcement to give you a sense of why the company chose to join the alliance. So, from Workday: “Delivering safe, trusted enterprise AI requires multiple layers of protection across the entire application stack, from identity management and access permissions to continuous guardrails, monitoring, and governance.”
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00:53 — “Our commitment to continuously build our internal security engineering programs to meet these high standards is why Workday is joining the Open Secure AI Alliance.” Enterprise AI is shifting quickly towards more open stacks and more ambitious agents. Initiatives like the Open Secure AI Alliance are incredibly important.
01:22 — Workday and the other members of the alliance recognize that AI security is quickly becoming an ecosystem problem, not just something that one vendor can solve independently. And that’s why, for example, Workday specifically said that it has historically worked on security internally for its own platform, but now is sharing what it’s learned with the wider community.
01:50 — As AI becomes more open, distributed, and agentic, securing models isn’t going to be enough. The challenge now, and that’s one that Workday and the other members of the alliance are trying to address, is securing everything around these models.
