How to Evaluate AI Security Vendors: The 12 Questions a Production Buyer Asks Before Signing
AI security vendor evaluation produces defensible decisions when the buyer applies a fixed set of architectural and operational questions to every vendor in the matrix. The questions cover the inspection boundary, the audit record format, the policy management surface, the regulatory mapping, the operational behavior under failure, and the procurement and integration mechanics. This piece walks through the twelve questions, the answer pattern that satisfies the regulator and the security team, and the way the matrix gets used inside a procurement cycle that has to close before the EU AI Act August 2 deadline.