New offerings led by champion AI ethical hacker include specialized security assessments and industry’s most comprehensive AI Attack Taxonomy
July 15, 2025 – Palo Alto, CA – Pangea, a leading provider of AI security guardrails, today announced the launch of Pangea Labs, a dedicated research division, and specialized Red Teaming services to help organizations defend against sophisticated AI attacks. The dual launch includes the debut of the industry’s most comprehensive AI Prompt Injection Attack Taxonomy—a living framework that maps prompt injection methods and countermeasures developed by the new research team.
Introducing Pangea’s AI Research Division, Pangea Labs
Under the guidance of Chief Product Officer Rob Truesdell, Pangea Labs will research emerging AI attack techniques and conduct red team exercises to identify vulnerabilities in AI systems before malicious actors can exploit them. The division will translate cutting-edge research, such as Pangea’s Prompt Injection Challenge research report, into actionable security enhancements and services. The team’s focus areas include:
- Advanced prompt injection techniques and countermeasures
- AI model manipulation and jailbreaking methods
- Enterprise AI security best practices
- Emerging threat intelligence and attack pattern analysis
Joining Pangea Labs as the first AI Red Team Specialist is Joey Melo, an ethical hacker and professional penetration tester who distinguished himself as the only contestant to successfully escape all three virtual rooms in Pangea’s 2025 Prompt Injection Challenge. Melo holds multiple offensive security certifications including BSCP, OSCP, and OSCE3, and recently achieved 100% completion in the HackAPrompt 2.0 competition, successfully jailbreaking all 39 AI security challenges across multiple models.
Melo joins Dr. Jim Hoagland, whose years-long foundational research has been instrumental in developing Pangea’s comprehensive understanding of AI attack vectors.
Pangea Red Teaming Services Now Available
Building on the expertise of Pangea Labs, Pangea now offers specialized AI Red Teaming services that go beyond traditional penetration testing. These comprehensive security assessments simulate malicious cyberattacks specifically targeting AI systems, helping organizations identify vulnerabilities, assess the effectiveness of security controls, and improve incident response capabilities.
Unlike standard security testing, Pangea’s Red Teaming offering employs a broader scope, mimicking real-world attack scenarios and adversary tactics that specifically target AI implementations. The services leverage the research-backed methodologies developed by Dr. Hoagland and the practical attack expertise demonstrated by Melo, providing organizations with comprehensive visibility into their AI security posture, using the most current threat intelligence available.
“As generative AI becomes deeply embedded in enterprise workflows, the attack surface is expanding exponentially,” said Oliver Friedrichs, Founder and CEO of Pangea. “The launch of Pangea Labs alongside our Red Teaming services represents our commitment to staying ahead of these threats through rigorous research and real-world attack simulation. Our research team’s proven ability to think like an attacker—combined with our platform’s defensive capabilities—creates an unmatched advantage for our customers’ security postures.”
New AI Attack Taxonomy
Pangea’s newly published AI Prompt Injection Attack Taxonomy represents the most up-to-date classification system available, providing security teams with a comprehensive roadmap of attack vectors and defensive strategies. Built on Dr. Hoagland’s extensive research foundation and enhanced by Joey Melo’s practical attack expertise, this living framework will be continuously updated as new threats emerge, ensuring organizations stay ahead of evolving AI security risks.
“Traditional security frameworks weren’t designed for the unique challenges of AI systems,” said Rob Truesdell, Pangea’s Chief Product Officer. “Our taxonomy provides teams with the structured knowledge they need to identify vulnerabilities before attackers do. By understanding the full spectrum of AI attack methods, development teams can build more resilient systems from the ground up.”
Pangea was recently recognized by 150+ CISOs as a top cybersecurity startup and already provides the industry’s most comprehensive protection against AI attacks, helping organizations implement robust security controls across their AI implementations.
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About Pangea
Pangea’s AI Guardrail Platform empowers security teams to ship secure AI applications quickly and protect workforce AI use with the industry’s most comprehensive set of AI guardrails, easily deployed via gateways or into applications with just a few lines of code. Pangea stops LLM security threats ranging from prompt injection to sensitive data leakage, covering 8 out of 10 OWASP Top Ten Risks for LLM apps, while accelerating engineering velocity and unlocking AI runtime visibility and control for security teams.
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