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AIDEFEND Labs is an open-source AI security initiative led by security researcher Edward Lee, centered on the AIDEFEND framework, an actionable knowledge base of defensive controls for AI, ML, LLM and agentic systems that maps threats from OWASP, MITRE ATLAS and MAESTRO to concrete countermeasures.
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AIDEFEND Labs is an open-source AI security initiative led by security researcher Edward Lee, centered on the AIDEFEND framework…
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