APMIC and CyCraft Announce Strategic Partnership, Launching XecGuard Security Module and Safety LLM Evaluation Service to Defend Against AI Threats

Taipei, August 1, 2025 — APMIC, the leading provider of enterprise AI solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with CyCraft, a top cybersecurity company, to introduce two groundbreaking products designed for AI defense: the XecGuard security enhancement module and the Safety LLM security evaluation service. These solutions provide enterprises with the most robust defense against potential cybersecurity risks posed by large language models (LLMs).

In recent years, the explosive growth of generative AI has brought new security challenges for enterprises. Attack techniques such as prompt injection and prompt extraction have posed serious threats to model reliability and data integrity. The launch of XecGuard directly responds to the industry’s urgent call for AI defense solutions.

Ming-Wei Wu, CEO and Co-founder of CyCraft, emphasized:

He explained that XecGuard integrates CyCraft’s extensive red-team experience in critical sectors such as government and finance, delivering intelligent decision-making capabilities and exceptional defensive resilience.

Technically, XecGuard leverages the LoRA architecture for security upgrades. Built with nearly 60,000 in-house red-team datasets from CyCraft and multi-stage fine-tuning (SFT + GRPO), XecGuard can be seamlessly installed onto any LLM without altering its original structure. In testing, upgrading APMIC and Twinkle AI’s community co-created F1 model with XecGuard boosted the overall defense score by an average of 19.4%, with certain attack scenarios improving by up to 33.9%.

Compared to commercial models such as Llama 3B, Qwen 4B, Gemma 4B, and DeepSeek 8B, the F1 model integrated with XecGuard outperformed peers and even larger models. It not only successfully resisted prompt attacks but also maintained response accuracy, proving that smaller models, when trained with robust security, can rival international-grade products.

The collaboration between APMIC and CyCraft marks a new milestone in AI security development. Both companies reaffirmed their commitment to driving the standardization of enterprise AI security and accelerating the safe adoption of intelligent technologies across industries.

About APMIC

Founded in Taiwan in 2017, APMIC (Accelerate Private Machine Intelligence Company) is a leading provider of enterprise AI solutions. Starting with natural language understanding (NLU) technologies, APMIC has developed the S1 Model Fine-tuning and Distillation service, the PrivAI enterprise on-premise AI solution, and CaiGunn, a no-code AI chatbot platform. These solutions allow enterprises to upload data and build their own AI brain without writing any code. Today, APMIC’s products are trusted by more than 1,100 organizations across healthcare, manufacturing, finance, and retail sectors, as well as government agencies, enabling every enterprise to build secure and scalable AI applications.

Learn more: https://apmic.ai

About CyCraft

CyCraft is Asia’s leading AI-powered cybersecurity company specializing in automated threat exposure management. Its XCockpit AI platform integrates Extended Attack Surface Management (XASM) across three key defense pillars: external exposure early warning, privilege escalation monitoring, and endpoint automated defense. Recognized by Gartner and widely adopted in industries such as government, finance, and semiconductors, CyCraft continues to advance the region’s most sophisticated AI-driven Cyber Defense Center, safeguarding enterprises with resilient digital security.