AI SHIELD unveiled to protect financial AI systems
Its EasySafePay 360 tool can cut account takeover incidents in digital wallets by 90%.
Ant International has introduced AI SHIELD, a security framework to protect AI systems used in financial services. The toolkit aims to reduce risks such as fraud, bias, and misuse in AI applications like fraud detection, payment authorisation, and customer chatbots.
At the centre of AI SHIELD is the AI Security Docker, which applies safeguards throughout development and deployment. The framework includes authentication of AI agents, continuous monitoring to block threats in real time, and ongoing adversarial testing.
Ant said the system will support over 100 million merchants and 1.8 billion users worldwide across services like Alipay+, Antom, Bettr, and WorldFirst. It will also defend against deepfake attacks and account takeovers, with the firm claiming its EasySafePay 360 tool can cut such incidents by 90%.
The initiative is part of Ant’s wider role in setting industry standards, including its work with Google on the Agent Payments Protocol, which defines how AI agents transact securely with user approval.
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