How to Reduce the Risk of Using External AI Models in Your SDLC

This blog post examines AI supply chain security risks arising from integrating third-party AI models—highlighting threats like malicious models, security vulnerabilities, insecure serialization via Pickle, and reputational and licensing concerns—and recommends mitigations including gaining visibility into model usage, continuous scanning for malicious code, careful license compliance, reputation checks for models and publishers, and adopting safer formats like Safetensors to reduce exposure across the SDLC.