Research Methodology
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How We Evaluate Tools
The AI Security Stack Matrix is built over hundreds of hours of hands-on testing, red-teaming, and architectural review. To be included, a tool must solve a tangible problem in the MLSecOps lifecycle.
- Deployment Friction: Does it require a highly-invasive kernel agent, or does it utilize modern eBPF/sidecar patterns?
- False Positives: In prompt-injection filtering, what is the impact on legitimate LLM operations?
- Architecture: Can the solution run air-gapped on-premise, or does it enforce a SaaS-only model transmitting PII to vendor APIs?
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