AI Security & Governance
Protect AI systems with comprehensive security frameworks, bias auditing, model governance, and regulatory compliance for EU AI Act, HIPAA, and SOC 2.
The EU AI Act classifies ~40% of business AI systems as 'high-risk,' requiring documented risk assessments, bias testing, and human oversight. We help organizations build governance frameworks that satisfy regulators from day one.
Governance work typically wraps around AI Strategy Consulting and Cloud AI infrastructure. Most engagements are delivered for clients in Financial Services AI Consulting.
Key Statistics
- EU AI Act classifies ~40% of enterprise AI use cases as 'high-risk' — European Commission, AI Act Compliance Guide 2024
- Average cost of an AI-related data breach reached $5.04M in 2024 — IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024
- Adversarial prompt-injection attacks affect 73% of production LLM deployments lacking guardrails — OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2024
Expert Perspective
"AI security isn't a checkbox you bolt on at the end — it's a design constraint from day one."
— Colter Mahlum, Founder, Mahlum Innovations
AI Security & Governance Built & Led By
Colter personally leads every AI Security & Governance engagement at Mahlum Innovations. Mechanical engineer turned AI builder, he has shipped 11+ production AI systems across manufacturing, wealth management, healthcare, and sports analytics — no account managers, no junior hand-offs. Read full bio · LinkedIn.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- What does an AI security and governance engagement cover?
- Bias and fairness auditing, adversarial robustness testing, prompt-injection defense, data leakage analysis, model and data lineage documentation, and a governance framework aligned to NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, HIPAA, or SOC 2 — whichever applies to you.
- How much does AI security and compliance work cost?
- A focused audit of an existing model runs $25K–$60K over 3–5 weeks. A full governance program covering multiple models, ongoing monitoring, and regulatory documentation typically ranges $80K–$250K with quarterly retainers for ongoing assurance.
- Do we need to comply with the EU AI Act if we're a US company?
- If you offer AI-powered products or services to users in the EU — even indirectly through a partner — yes. The Act's high-risk classification triggers documentation, monitoring, and conformity assessment obligations regardless of where your company is headquartered.
- How do you defend against prompt injection and data leakage?
- Layered controls: input sanitization, system-prompt hardening, output filtering, tool-use scoping, retrieval allow-lists, and red-team testing with known attack patterns. We also instrument logging so emerging attack patterns can be detected post-deployment.
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