Vulnerabilities are the means
The business is the objective

AI security is the specialized discipline of protecting artificial intelligence systems — including large language models, machine learning pipelines, and autonomous agents — from adversarial attacks, data poisoning, prompt injection, and model manipulation. As 78% of enterprises now use AI in production, attackers have shifted focus to these new surfaces. Traditional cybersecurity controls were not built for probabilistic systems that reason and act autonomously. Without dedicated AI security, organizations face risks like data exfiltration through jailbroken chatbots, backdoored models, and AI-driven fraud. Berghem treats AI security as a first-class discipline, applying offensive expertise to systems that think.

Berghem is a smart information security company that delivers AI security, autonomous security agents, and ethical hacking tests. We operate across three pillars: AI Security Services covering LLM penetration testing, red teaming, governance, and monitoring; Berghem Agents — a proprietary autonomous security agent built on our own cybersecurity LLM; and traditional ethical hacking across Silver, Gold, and Diamond tiers. Our team combines 20+ years of offensive security experience protecting major financial institutions with original research into AI threats, including our own Promptware Kill Chain framework for modeling adversarial AI attacks.

Unlike traditional firms that rely on generic scanners and checklists, Berghem starts from the adversarial objective: the asset that cannot be compromised, and the routes that lead to it. Our EHT correlates technical and business paths across surfaces — web to API and back — instead of producing an undifferentiated list of vulnerabilities. Berghem Agents extend that investigation with a multi-model architecture selected per task, data sensitivity and client constraints, while specialists keep judgment and accountability. We also specialize in AI security — an area most traditional firms don't cover — applying frameworks such as the Promptware Kill Chain. Every engagement blends deep human expertise with agent-scaled testing, giving clients broader coverage, reproducible evidence, and findings that map directly to real-world attacker behavior.

Berghem serves organizations where the cost of a breach is measured in regulatory penalties, reputational damage, and systemic risk. Our core verticals include financial services (banks, fintechs, payment providers), healthcare and life sciences, government and defense, technology and software companies, critical infrastructure operators, and telecommunications. We have particular depth in financial services, where our team has delivered offensive security programs to major banks for over two decades. Any organization deploying AI, handling sensitive data, or operating under compliance regimes like PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, LGPD, or GDPR benefits from our services.

Berghem is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, with European operations run through our sister brand Berilo in Bergamo, Italy. From these two hubs we deliver security services to clients across the globe, in English, Portuguese, Italian, and Spanish. Our engagements span Latin America, Europe, North America, and beyond — wherever clients need expert offensive security, AI testing, or autonomous security agents. Whether you need compliance-driven testing under Brazilian LGPD, GDPR-first methodology from our European team, or global AI security research, Berghem can engage remotely or onsite.