INDEPENDENT SETA ADVISORY

AI Security and Governance Advisory

HCT helps agencies understand where AI is used, what information and mission functions it touches, how it can fail or be manipulated, and which safeguards must be validated before deployment.

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Mission value

What this advisory work is designed to strengthen.

  1. 01Risk-informed adoption of AI capabilities
  2. 02Protection of sensitive data and mission workflows
  3. 03Accountable governance for models, agents, and providers

Advisory scope

Areas of focus

  • AI use-case, asset, data, and dependency inventory
  • Threat modeling for models, agents, retrieval, tools, and interfaces
  • Prompt injection, data leakage, model abuse, and supply-chain risk
  • Human oversight, testing, monitoring, and incident readiness

Representative deliverables

Decision-ready outputs

  • AI system risk assessment
  • Security and governance control profile
  • Adversarial test and validation plan
  • Deployment decision brief and monitoring measures

Reference points

Standards and guidance are applied in mission context.

Specific requirements and control selections depend on the customer, system, data, authorization boundary, classification, and governing authority.

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Independent technical advice

Turn a complex cyber question into a defensible decision.

HCT supports the customer’s decision authority. We do not sell, procure, or install the products being evaluated.

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