Protecting the neural circuitry of AI.
HotWAN is an AI security company built by people who have spent their careers in offensive security, AI research, and building systems that have to work under adversarial conditions. We started HotWAN because we saw a gap: AI systems were getting more capable, more connected, and more autonomous — but the security industry was still treating them like traditional software.
That's not where the risk is. Modern AI risk lives in routing integrity, latent activations, multimodal trigger composition, adaptive drift, and reasoning-to-action control. It lives inside the model, not at the API boundary. We built HotWAN to protect that layer.
Our platform strategy is built around two products: the HotWAN AI Cognitive Defense Platform, a modular platform for protecting how AI systems route, adapt, compose, and act; and AI Red Spark, an AI-powered offensive security platform for source code, web application, and API testing.
We're based in California. We work with enterprise AI teams, security leaders, and organizations that take model risk seriously enough to test it properly.
Focused exclusively on AI security protection. Not a generic security services menu with an AI add-on. Every engagement and product addresses AI-specific risk.
Built around real products, not just consulting language. Our platform direction drives how we think about protection and testing — and what we deliver to clients.
Designed for the systems that define current AI risk: open-weight models, multimodal pipelines, and agentic workflows with tool access and real-world consequences.
We come from offensive security. We think like attackers, build tools like attackers, and test systems the way they'll actually be attacked — not the way compliance frameworks imagine.