[Lake Mary, FL] — [March 25, 2025] — Collaborative Digital Innovations (CDI), the company behind COMPLiQ, a cutting-edge AI security and compliance platform, has entered into a research partnership with Purdue University’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). This collaboration aims to drive innovation in AI security, governance, and compliance, reinforcing protections against adversarial threats in regulated industries.

The partnership combines CDI’s expertise in AI assurance, threat intelligence, and compliance automation with CERIAS’s world-class research in cyber and cyber-physical security, privacy, autonomy and trustworthy AI. Together, the organizations will focus on solutions that enhance AI observability, improve threat detection, and ensure compliance with stringent regulatory requirements across financial services, healthcare, government, and other critical sectors.

As part of this strategic partnership and research program, COMPLiQ will be joining the CERIAS External Advisory Board (EAB) which help ensure the university’s world-class education and research portfolio receives important industry input.  This wide reaching partnership reinforces CDI’s commitment to advancing AI security research and education. “Purdue University’s CERIAS institute is making a measurable impact on society by helping to advance research, broaden education, and facilitate tech transfer,” said Chad Justice, CEO of Collaborative Digital Innovations. “We are honored to contribute to this mission and collaborate on real-world solutions that enhance AI security and compliance.”

Key focus areas of the cooperation include:

• AI Threat Intelligence – Enhancing AI security through real-time threat detection and intelligence integration.
• Regulatory Compliance Automation – Developing frameworks to align AI systems with evolving compliance standards.
• Adversarial Threat Mitigation – Addressing risks such as prompt injection, data poisoning, and model manipulation.
• AI Auditability and Transparency – Blockchain for explainability, monitoring, and governance of AI-driven decisions.

“CERIAS focuses on cyber related issues that make the global community more safe and secure. Partnering with industry, especially with those like COMPLiQ who share our vision, and are at the ‘tip of the spear’ in emerging technologies, helps fulfil our mission to conduct impactful research and provide a preeminent education to students who we believe will be part of the industry’s future difference-makers,” shared Joel Rasmus, CERIAS managing director.  

This partnership aims to leverage existing interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research, and initiate new R&D to strengthen AI security for regulated industries, helping organizations navigate the complexities of AI adoption while maintaining compliance and resilience against emerging threats.

About Collaborative Digital Innovations

Collaborative Digital Innovations (CDI) is the developer of COMPLiQ, a pioneering AI security and compliance platform designed for regulated enterprises. COMPLiQ provides real-time AI threat intelligence, governance, and auditability, ensuring organizations can deploy AI safely and in accordance with industry regulations.

About CERIAS

The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University is the world’s foremost interdisciplinary academic center for cyber and cyber-physical systems, and dedicated to advancing the knowledge and practice of cyber and cyber-physical assurance, security and privacy. More than a hundred Purdue University researchers are addressing issues of security, privacy, resiliency, trusted electronics, autonomous systems and trustworthy artificial intelligence.

About Purdue UniversityPurdue University is a public research university leading with excellence at scale. Ranked among top 10 public universities in the United States, Purdue discovers, disseminates and deploys knowledge with a quality and at a scale second to none. More than 107,000 students study at Purdue across multiple campuses, locations and modalities, including more than 58,000 at our main campus in West Lafayette and Indianapolis. Committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdue’s main campus has frozen tuition 13 years in a row. See how Purdue never stops in the persistent pursuit of the next giant leap — including its comprehensive urban expansion, the Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue Computes and the One Health initiative — at https://www.purdue.edu/president/strategic-initiatives.