Satu Korhonen is a passionate practitioner, researcher and founder of Helheim Labs, which is a company focused building products often focused on AI security and agentic AI. She is deeply interested in all things AI and has a secret superpower of making AI understandable to non-technical audiences. Her aim has been to enable especially cybersecurity experts to understand AI, how it works, how to secure it, and how to thoroughly security test it. Known for her creativity and determination, she combines technical expertise with a strong drive to make cutting-edge research accessible and actionable. She was selected by AI Finland to kärkinAIset listing (top women in AI) in Spring 2025.
She is a mentor (Women4Cyber, Women in AI), board member of TurkuSec and a frequent volunteer at Disobey. She is currently also a Chief Advisor in the Cyber and Hybrid Resiliency Research Group at Turku University of Applied Sciences researching the intersection of hybrid threats and generative AI.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/satu-m-korhonen/
Creator, and contributor, of hackAI.quest
Public Talks
- WHY2025: Securing AI
- Solita women’s mingle 12/2024: Building a career in AI
- Kone AI community 11/2024: Keeping AI safe(r)
- Disarray 10/2024: Hacking Generative AI
- Women4CyberFinland invited speaker 9/2024: Cyber is not just cyber – Security is important everywhere, including in AI
- PerSec 8/2024: What LLMs do and how to hack them
- ValtioExpo 5/2024 (with Jyrki Eerola): NIS2 – oivalluksia turvallisempaan GenAI käyttöön (NIS2 – insights to safer use of GenAI)
- HelSec 3/2024: Approaching GenAI with security in mind
- Disobey 2/2024: Securing GenAI?
- TurkuSec 10/2023: Safe(ish) app development with GenAI
- TammerSec 5/2023: Protecting your machine learning assets
- Haaga-Helia 4/2023: From Sustainable Principles to Sustainable MLOps
- RigaComm 2023: Sustainable AI in practice
- Solita Security Roundtable 2023: Developing secure GenAI apps
- HAMK 2/2023: Designing Sustainable AI
- Solita Crash Course 2023: Crash Course on GenAI – a journey from concept to value
- TurkuSec 11/2022: What is Trustworthy AI and why should you care?
Public workshops
- Balccon2025: Let’s break some AI
- WHY2025: Let’s break some AI
- Easterhegg 2025 (with Silvan Gebhardt/Openfactory): Can you defeat Fenrir AI and collect all the passwords?
- Disobey 2025: Hacking GenAI info and help workshop (accompanying Disobey AI bot in the CtF)
- PerSec 2024: Lets hack AI
Articles and blogs
Written by Satu:
- Solita blog 6/2025: From shadow AI to responsible adoption of (generative) AI
- Public Exposure 6/2025: Adversarial Testing of AI is not Optional
- Solita blog 5/2025: AI for cybersecurity or cybersecurity for AI, or both?
- Sotilasaikakauslehti 6/2024: Tekoälyjärjestelmiin hyökkääminen ja niiden suojaaminen (Attacking AI systems and protecting them)
- Sotilasaikakauslehti 3/2024: Tekoäly tilannehuoneessa : mitä sen hyödyntämiseksi tulee tietää? (AI in situational awareness – what do you need to know to gain value from it?)
- Co-authored with colleagues in Solita 2024: Handbook of leading sustainable value with AI
- Co-authored with colleagues in Solita 2024: Boost your productivity with platform engineering
- Solita blog 10/2023: Secure development: Staying safe in the fast-evolving AI landscape while building value for business
- Solita blog 8/2023: AI Act is coming. Is your organisation ready?
- Analyytikko 3/2022: Kysymyksillä alkuun luotettavamman tekoälyn rakentamisessa (Asking questions helps building more trustworthy AI systems)
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