European telecoms standards body ETSI has released a new technical specification which is defining security requirements for AI computing platforms.
The ETSI TS 104 033 specification, as it is called, is supposed to provide a “systematic security baseline” for the computing platforms that host AI model training and inference.
The release explains that in AI systems, the computing platform serves as a critical infrastructure layer, providing the execution environment and associated resources for AI services. ETSI asserts that as AI systems are “increasingly deployed across a wide range of use cases, the security of the computing platform has become a key element in safeguarding the entire AI supply chain.”
The new ETSI specification is supposed to be addressing this by defining security requirements and functions for AI computing platforms, which in turn is supposed to help to mitigate threats to the platform, models and data associated with it. It also specifies the security components to be implemented within the platform and their interfaces, we’re told.
More specifically, it is defining the “mandatory security requirements” and functions that AI computing platforms should meet to stave off threats, and specifying the security components and service interfaces recommended for implementing them. It also addresses the protection of AI models and data in dynamic and static states, which is supposed to be useful for defending against things like model extraction and data leakage, apparently.
Overall the technical specification “provides a clear security baseline for stakeholders such as AI computing platform designers, supporting compliance with regulatory requirements, including those set out in the EU AI Act,” says ETSI.
Scott Cadzow, Chair of the ETSI Technical Committee Securing AI added: "This work builds on the AI computing platform security framework we have previously developed and marks a significant step forward in establishing concrete and actionable security requirements for the platform itself."
Late last year, ETSI set up the Technical Committee on Quantum Technologies (TC QT) which was consolidating current standards and addressing future market needs.
The main thing the committee has on its plate, we were told at the time, is developing specifications that address quantum communications and quantum networks across multiple sectors, and “deploying quantum-based solutions to lay the foundations for secure global communications networks.”
Some of the areas of interest were described as quantum communications (defined in the release as data transmission using quantum principles like superposition and entanglement), quantum networking (described as connecting quantum systems for distributed computing and cryptography), and satellite quantum communications (which involves standardising beacon signals, interfaces, and security for space-based quantum systems).
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