Bronwen Aker
Bio
Bronwen Aker is a BHIS Technical Editor who joined full-time in 2022 after years of contract work, bringing decades of web development and technical training experience to her roles in editing pentest reports, enhancing QA/QC processes, and improving public websites, and who enjoys sci-fi/fantasy, Animal Crossing, and dogs outside of work.Appears in 39 Episodes
OpenAI / Hugging Face Breach Walkthrough | Episode 65
🔒 Want to run AI without sending your data to the cloud? AI Security Ops co-host Bronwen Aker is teaching Keeping Things Local: Build Private LLMs for Your Team. ✔️ Bu...
Agentic Terminology | Episode 64
In this episode of BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops, the team tackles one of the biggest sources of confusion in modern AI: What’s the difference between prompts, skills...
AI News Stories | Episode 63
In this episode of BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops, the team follows a single trend that is changing the economics of cyberattacks: The machine-speed attacker is no lon...
Interview with Josh Mason | Episode 62
In this episode of BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops, Bronwen Aker and Ethan sit down with Josh Mason for a wide-ranging conversation about cybersecurity careers, AI, sma...
Hey Skippy! | Episode 60
This episode takes a break from the usual AI security news roundup for a show-and-tell discussion centered on "Skippy," an AI-powered personal assistant built to autom...
Mythos and Fable Pulled | Episode 59
In this episode of BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops, the team tackles a first-of-its-kind moment in AI security and regulation: What happens when the U.S. government ord...
Agentic Security: The Maturity Model — From Wild West to Locked Down | Episode 58
In this episode of BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops, the team tackles one of the most urgent — and misunderstood — problems in modern security: How do you actually secur...
Open Weight Models and Open Source Harnesses | Episode 56
In this episode of BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops, the team looks at what it actually means to own your AI stack. Open-weight models and open-source harnesses are no l...
Is It the Model or the Harness? | Episode 54
In this episode of BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops, the team tackles a foundational question in modern AI security: Is the real risk in the model… or in the harness aro...
AI News | Episode 53
In this episode of BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops, the team breaks down a packed week in AI security — from the first AI-built zero day in the wild to model supply cha...
AI and Bug Bounties | Episode 51
In this episode of BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops, the team breaks down a growing problem in cybersecurity: AI-generated bug bounty “slop” overwhelming the system. Wha...
Claude Mythos | Episode 49
In this episode of BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops, the team breaks down Claude Mythos Preview — Anthropic’s unreleased frontier model that may represent a turning poin...
Holocron OpenBrain with Alex Minster | Episode 48
In this episode of BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops, the team is joined by Alex Minster to demo his project: HOLOCRON OpenBrain with — a persistent, model-agnostic memor...
LiteLLM Supply Chain Compromise | Episode 47
In this episode of BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops, the team breaks down the LiteLLM supply chain compromise–a real-world attack that shows how AI systems are being bre...
Model Ablation | Episode 46
In this episode of BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops, the team breaks down model ablation — a powerful interpretability technique that’s quickly becoming a serious concer...
Embedding Space Attacks | Episode 45
In this episode of BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops, the team explores embedding space attacks — a lesser-known but increasingly important threat in modern AI systems — ...
Top AI Security Concerns | Episode 43
In this episode of BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops, Bronwen Aker and Dr. Brian Fehrman break down some of the top AI security concerns being discussed by researchers, s...
Claude Cowork Discussion | Episode 42
We discuss the meaning of AI life In episode 42 of "BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops." Derek Banks is joined by Bronwen Aker and Brian Fehrman to break down Anthropic’s ...