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American Technology Leadership Organization

Uniting CIOs, CISOs, architects, and builders around a practical agenda: innovation that is secure by design.

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Mission

Our mission is to accelerate innovation and security in AI for regulated industries—including Finance, Legal, and Healthcare—by sharing vetted practices, reference architectures, and field-tested controls.

We convene leaders to align AI strategy with governance, compliance, and risk—so that breakthroughs are deployable, auditable, and safe.

AI-by-Design

Blueprints and guardrails to ship ML & LLM features securely.

Regulatory Readiness

Controls mapping to frameworks common in finance, legal, and healthcare.

Reference Architectures

Peer-reviewed patterns for secure data, identity, and model ops.

Community Workshops

Roundtables and tabletop exercises with practitioner insights.

President

Jeffrey Stonington

Board Chairman

Michael Ricotta
President at Cloud Armory, AWS Managed Services Provider

IT Leadership Security Council

A dedicated subsidiary advancing cyber resilience for AI-era systems.

  • Zero Trust for AI
    Identity, secrets, and data isolation patterns for model access.
  • Assurance & Testing
    Red-teaming LLMs, adversarial evals, and policy enforcement.
  • Compliance Alignment
    Practical mappings to HIPAA, GLBA, SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and more.

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Tool Recommendations

The ATLO Security Council is on a mission to mitigate security apathy in the modern AI world. Driven primarily by finance, operational overhead, and a desire for agility, security frameworks are often disregarded when not otherwise enforced by a governing body. To make these frameworks more available to the public, we've curated a list of tools provided to you at no cost to assist you in achieving compliance.

FREE Security Compliance: Security Framework Docs

Library of readiness documentation including checklists and policy evidence reporting for all modern security frameworks. Their service provider tool is a fantastic resource of vetted providers.

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Wazuh / Ossec: Open Source XDR and SIEM

Built on Ossec, Wazuh is a formidable solution trusted by major organizations worldwide (including Intuit, eBay, and NASA) and much more affordable than its contemporaries. It's completely free, no free trials, upsells, or paywalls like you might find with OpenEDR.

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VirusTotal: Rate-Limited FREE Active Threat Removal

In spite of its expensive Enterprise platform, VirusTotal boasta a robust API which integrates with Wazuh. While it is rate limited at the free tier, it's strong than most open source AV.

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ClamAV: Open Source AV

ClamAV is a popular open source AV for Linux. They also power BucketAV, which is a powerful AWS S3 antivirus solution.

Open ClamAV Open BucketAV
Linux Malware Detect (MalDet): Open Source AV

Maldet is a popular open source malware scanner for Linux.

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IPTables / UFW: Open Source Firewall

Most Linux OS have IPTables or UFW out-of-the-box which can be used for network security across ports, source IPs, traffic throttling, and brute force jailing.

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Fail2Ban: Open Source Intrusion Protection

Fail2Ban scans log files like auth.log and bans IP addresses conducting too many failed login attempts. It does this by updating system firewall rules to reject new connections from those IP addresses.

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Tenable Nessus: FREE Vulnerability Scanner

Nessus is a proprietary vulnerability scanner owned by Tenable. It was once open source and widely used as such until 2005. It remains a popular VS, today.

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Nagios: Open Source Port and Service Monitoring

Nagios is an authentication-based remote monitoring tool

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Snort: Open Source Intrustion Detection System (IDS)

Widely considered one of the greatest pieces of open source software of all time, it's the backend of many enteprise systems today and is currently developed by Cisco.

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OpenVAS: Open Source vulnerability scanner

A full-featured vulnerability scanner with unauthenticated and authenticated testing, high-level and low-level internet and industrial protocols, performance tuning for large-scale scans and the ability implement any type of vulnerability test.

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WireShark: Open Source network protocol analyzer

Easily the most well known and widely used network protocol analyzer, wireshark is a great way to trace traffic to and from your server to understand the hops in your network handshake.

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Why join?

  • • Practical playbooks for secure AI delivery
  • • Peer benchmarks & quarterly councils
  • • Early access to reference tools
  • • Verified community of practitioners