Securing a European Sovereign Inference Provider: a Technical Case Study with Xference and HikmaAI
May 19, 2026 — 08:00 am - 08:30 am
Maxi Stage 2
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Description
European companies are now running LLMs in production. Inference providers are the plumbing underneath, which means they are critical infrastructure, and they present an attack surface nobody really knows how to defend. This talk covers a joint technical case study between Xference, a Sovereign European inference provider, and HikmaAI, showing how we designed a two-stage security architecture, adversarial testing before deployment, and runtime enforcement via the HikmaAI Intelligence Gateway. We walk through the threat model, the validation methodology we used against models and agentic workflows, the attack classes we caught before going live, and the runtime controls that now block prompt injection, jailbreaks, data exfiltration attempts, and policy violations on live traffic. We share real numbers, attacks found, attacks blocked, latency overhead, false positive rates, and without killing private inference performance.
HikmaAI is a company specialized in real-time security for generative artificial intelligence applications. It protects AI systems from misuse, data leaks, and unpredictable behavior through a...
Xference develops AI inference infrastructure to turn theoretical models into real-world solutions. The platform optimizes model performance, provides elastic scaling and advanced observability,...
