Securing the AI Factory: A Practitioner’s Guide - Softcover

Marks, Colin

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798189962806

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Securing the AI Factory: A Practitioner’s Guide
The first complete security blueprint for modern AI factories, sovereign AI platforms, and high‑risk model operations.

AI factories are not traditional data centers—and treating them like one is the fastest way to fail an audit, lose control of your data, or expose your models to compromise. Securing the AI Factory is the first practitioner‑focused guide that explains exactly how to design, secure, operate, and scale an AI factory with the rigor today’s enterprises and sovereign operators demand.

Written for architects, CISOs, platform engineers, SOC analysts, and AI leaders, this book delivers a clear, vendor‑neutral reference architecture and a complete security model built around seven security pillars and seven enforcement points. You’ll learn how identity, perimeter controls, model protection, compute isolation, data protection, out‑of‑band management, and secure operations work together to eliminate ambiguity and make the platform defensible.

Through detailed walkthroughs, maturity scoring models, regulatory tiers, sovereignty requirements, and real‑world failure modes, this guide shows you how to build an AI factory that can withstand compromise, scale safely, and meet the strictest residency and sovereignty obligations.

What You’ll Learn

• How modern AI factories differ from traditional environments and why the old security playbook no longer works

• The complete AI factory reference architecture, explained layer by layer

• The seven security pillars that define a defensible AI platform

• The seven enforcement points where policy must be applied to prevent misuse

• How to secure models, datasets, GPU racks, fabric paths, keys, and inference flows

• How to enforce residency, sovereignty, and regulatory tiers from baseline to Tier 5

• How to detect drift, prevent lateral movement, and secure high‑density compute

• How to build a sovereign AI factory that is region‑bound, operator‑bound, and audit‑ready

• How to evaluate your platform using practitioner checklists and maturity scoring

Who This Book Is For

• Security architects

• AI/ML platform engineers

• SOC and IR teams

• CTOs, CISOs, and technical executives

• Government, defense, and sovereign operators

• Anyone responsible for securing high‑value AI workloads

Why This Book Matters

AI factories concentrate more compute, more sensitive data, and more operational risk than any environment before them. This book gives you the blueprint to secure them not with theory, but with practical, enforceable controls that map directly to real architectures, real workloads, and real regulatory expectations.

If you’re building or securing an AI factory, this guide is the reference you’ll return to again and again.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798189962806
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 120
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar