UK AI Cyber Security Code of Practice 2.4: AI-specific risk assessment and due diligence for external components

What does 2.4 require?

When a developer or system operator brings in an external component, it performs a due diligence step and an AI-focused security risk review, following its usual software development process, that looks specifically at the AI risks the component introduces.

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Other controls in Secure design (Principles 1 to 4) – UK AI Cyber Security Code of Practice

1.1 AI security content in the cyber security training programme
1.2 Ongoing staff awareness of AI threats, with secure AI coding training for developers
2.1 Assess the need, the risks and the mitigations before building an AI system
2.2 Design for resilience against adversarial attack, unexpected input and failure
2.3 Create an audit trail for the AI system
2.5 Match intended use to data sensitivity, and encourage staff to report AI security risks
2.6 Least-privilege, risk-assessed permissions for the AI system on other systems
2.7 Due diligence on external providers

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