Ethical Hacking
The practice of intentionally probing systems for vulnerabilities to identify and fix security issues, ensuring the robustness of AI systems.
Definition
Also known as “red teaming,” it involves simulated attacks on AI models (adversarial inputs, data poisoning) and infrastructure (API abuse, model extraction) to preempt real threats. Ethical hackers follow defined scopes, report vulnerabilities responsibly, and work with development teams to remediate issues—strengthening AI resilience and compliance with security standards.
Real-World Example
A social-media platform hires a red team to perform ethical hacking on its content-moderation AI. The team crafts adversarial posts to bypass filters, uncovers a model-extraction vulnerability in the API, and the site’s security engineers patch the model-serving endpoint and add anomaly-detection layers.
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