Key Takeaways
- Commvault has joined the Open Secure AI Alliance to help advance open, secure, and collaborative approaches to AI.
- Open source AI tools give organizations greater visibility and control, allowing experts to inspect, adapt, and strengthen systems as threats and requirements evolve.
- Effective AI security extends beyond models to include identity, permissions, guardrails, logging, evaluation, and the broader environment in which AI agents operate.
- Cross-industry collaboration and shared research can help organizations respond more quickly to the rapidly changing challenges created by increasingly capable agentic AI.
- Commvault will share its cyber resilience and data expertise with the Alliance, grounded in the principle that organizations can better protect systems and data they fully understand.
Collaboration has long been one of the most effective ways the technology industry meets new challenges. The past few months have brought that lesson into sharper focus for AI. Agentic systems are becoming more capable, more independent, and more deeply connected to the technology we use every day.
Recent events also have shown how quickly this landscape can change. When an advanced AI system created an unexpected security challenge for Hugging Face, the organization used an open-weight model on its own infrastructure to understand and contain the situation. The experience demonstrated the value of open source AI tools that organizations can inspect, adapt, and control when needed.
Moments like this should not diminish our optimism about AI. They should deepen our commitment to shaping its future together.
That is why Commvault is proud to join the Open Secure AI Alliance, a community of leading organizations advancing AI through open research, shared knowledge, and practical tools.
AI will keep evolving, and no single organization will have every answer. Bringing together deep expertise from across the industry gives the community a better chance to understand what is changing and respond with the speed this new era demands.
Open source is central to that effort. It gives experts the ability to examine how systems work and improve what others have started. For defenders, it also provides something essential: the freedom to choose and adapt the right technology for the situation rather than depending on a single system or provider.
NVIDIA describes this as an open defense foundation built on models, harnesses, and tools that the community can study and strengthen.
The Alliance also recognizes that AI security extends well beyond the model. Identity, permissions, guardrails, logs, and evaluation all shape how an agent behaves. Understanding that complete environment will take new research and a willingness to share what the industry learns along the way.
Commvault’s perspective is grounded in years of solving complex cyber resilience challenges – helping organizations understand their data, keep it trustworthy, and recover with confidence when disruption strikes.
Much of that work comes down to the same idea the Alliance is pursuing: You can only protect what you fully understand. That’s the experience we hope to bring, alongside an eagerness to learn from others tackling these challenges from different angles.
The opportunity ahead for AI is enormous. Realizing it will depend not only on how quickly the technology advances, but on how openly the industry works together as it does. Commvault is glad to be part of that work, and excited to help build what comes next.
Read NVIDIA’s announcement here: Industry Leaders Join the Open Secure AI Alliance.
FAQs
Q: What is the Open Secure AI Alliance?
A: The Open Secure AI Alliance is a community of organizations working to advance AI security through open research, shared knowledge, models, harnesses, and practical tools. Its collaborative approach gives participants opportunities to study emerging challenges and strengthen AI defenses together.
Q: Why has Commvault joined the Open Secure AI Alliance?
A: Commvault joined the Alliance to contribute its experience in cyber resilience, data understanding, trust, and recovery. It also provides an opportunity for Commvault to learn from other industry leaders approaching AI security from different perspectives.
Q: Why is open source important for AI security?
A: Open source allows experts to examine how AI systems work, build on existing technologies, and adapt tools to specific security situations. It also gives defenders greater freedom to select and modify technologies rather than relying on a single system or provider.
Q: What does AI security involve beyond protecting the model?
A: AI security encompasses the broader environment in which an AI system operates, including identity, permissions, guardrails, logs, and evaluation. Understanding these interconnected elements can help organizations better assess and manage how AI agents behave.
Q: How does Commvault’s cyber resilience experience relate to AI security?
A: Commvault’s cyber resilience work focuses on helping organizations understand their data, maintain its trustworthiness, and recover confidently after disruption. That perspective fits naturally with the Alliance’s focus on open, inspectable approaches to AI security.
Q: Why is industry collaboration important for the future of AI?
A: AI is evolving too quickly and broadly for any single organization to have every answer. Combining expertise, research, and practical insights across the industry can help the community understand emerging challenges and respond at the speed AI development demands.
Alexander Coombes is AVP, Strategic Partner Development, at Commvault.
