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AI Security Services

Cherry Bekaert’s AI Security Services help businesses reduce real-life threats and defend themselves from attacks through architecture reviews, model testing, guardrail guidance and monitoring recommendations. 

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Leverage AI Responsibly and Securely

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes embedded across your organization, leaders face growing pressure to strengthen AI security and compliance while maintaining innovation. Leaders must understand where AI is being used, what risks it introduces, and how AI governance and controls align with emerging standards and regulatory expectations.

Our AI Security Services provide a structured approach to assessing AI risk, strengthening cyber posture and building defensible AI programs that support both compliance and business objectives.

We provide practical, outcome-focused support to understand and address AI risks in your organization. This includes governance, ISO 42001 assessments and certification, testing the security of your AI models through AI red teaming, and evaluating AI for a transaction through AI risk and value due diligence assessments.

Our objective is simple: to provide you with a defensible, secure and compliant AI environment that supports innovation without increasing enterprise risk.

Our AI Security Consulting Offerings

  • AI Risk & Cyber Posture Assessment

    Our experienced AI security consultants will assess where and how AI is being used across your organization, evaluate cybersecurity, model, data, and regulatory risks, then produce a prioritized risk and maturity roadmap. 

  • AI Red Teaming Assessment

    Our AI red team will perform ethical hacking to simulate adversarial and misuse scenarios against your AI systems. This helps identify exploitable vulnerabilities and control gaps to address untested AI systems that expose you to security, operational and reputational risk. 

  • AI ISO 42001 Certification Services

    Our advisors will perform audit execution, control testing and certification issuance so you can become ISO 42001 certified. This provides you with competitive differentiation through AI trust credentials that build confidence with your customers, regulators and stakeholders. We will establish ongoing surveillance and recertification cycles supporting continuous monitoring.

  • AI Risk & Value Due Diligence Assessment

    We evaluate AI governance, capabilities, risks, dependencies, and value drivers in the context of transactions or strategic initiatives. This addresses the business problem of incomplete risk and value visibility, which impacts valuation, investment decisions and integration planning. 

Assess Your AI Security Risks With Cherry Bekaert

Ready to build a secure, resilient and compliant AI program and more effectively manage AI risk? Connect with our advisors to discuss your AI risk exposure, governance maturity and certification goals. 

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Your Guide for AI Security Threat Consulting

Working with Cherry Bekaert gives you access to a team that balances independence, technical depth and real-world business perspective. We bring an objective lens to your AI environment, helping you cut through complexity, challenge assumptions and make more informed decisions about where to focus time, budget and resources.

Just as important, we meet you where you are. Whether you’re early in your AI journey or scaling rapidly, our team adapts to your pace and priorities, integrating seamlessly with internal stakeholders. This pragmatic, collaborative approach helps accelerate progress, reduce friction and deliver improvements that are both achievable and sustainable over time.

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Kurt Manske

Cybersecurity Leader

Partner, Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC

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Steven J. Ursillo, Jr.

Cybersecurity

Partner, Cherry Bekaert LLP
Partner, Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC

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Dan Sembler

Cybersecurity

Partner, Cherry Bekaert LLP
Partner, Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC

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Kyle Wehrli

Cybersecurity

Managing Director, Cherry Bekaert LLP
Managing Director, Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC

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Brian Kirk

Cybersecurity

Director, Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC 

AI Security Consulting FAQs

An AI Risk and Cyber Posture Assessment addresses the gap created when organizations adopt AI faster than they can manage risk, leaving leaders without clear visibility into exposure and value.

ISO/IEC 42001 is the international standard for AI management systems. Certification demonstrates structured governance, risk management and oversight of AI systems, thereby providing trust to customers, regulators and investors.

 

Certification signals responsible AI governance and can accelerate sales cycles, differentiate you in regulated markets, and provide assurance during due diligence and procurement reviews.

AI red teaming simulates adversarial attacks and misuse scenarios against AI systems to identify vulnerabilities in models, prompts, data pipelines, APIs and integrations.

We test for:

  • Prompt injection and data exfiltration
  • Model manipulation
  • Adversarial inputs
  • Unauthorized access
  • Hallucination exploitation
  • Operational misuse scenarios

We provide visibility into:

  • Governance maturity
  • Security and compliance risks
  • Dependency and vendor concentration risks
  • Scalability constraints
  • Monetization and defensibility of AI capabilities

Yes. Undisclosed AI risk can reduce valuation or increase escrow requirements. Conversely, strong governance and defensible AI IP can enhance enterprise value.

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