Cisco and Hugging Face Enhance AI Model Security

Cisco Systems, Inc. has partnered with Hugging Face to enhance security across the AI ecosystem by integrating advanced malware scanning capabilities. Announced in a company blog post, this collaboration involves the use of Cisco's Foundation AI team to provide a unified malware scanning platform for all public files uploaded to Hugging Face.

The partnership leverages Cisco's updated ClamAV engine, which now includes custom-fit detection capabilities to scan AI model files and other files for malware. This integration aims to improve model vetting, detect vulnerabilities early, and share threat intelligence, thereby building greater trust and stronger security within the AI community.

Hugging Face, which hosts nearly 1.9 million models, will benefit from Cisco's expertise in securing digital infrastructure. The collaboration also democratizes AI model antimalware by releasing ClamAV's enhanced functionality to the public for free, allowing it to detect malicious code in AI models and deserialization risks in common model file formats.