I am a Senior AI and Cybersecurity Engineer based in Harlow, Essex. My work sits at the intersection of LLM application security, sovereign AI adoption, and domain-specific small language models for critical sectors. Over the past two years I have built two UK government-funded AI security tools at the University of Essex under Innovate UK's CyberASAP and UKRI's Digital Security by Design programmes, both now deployed through the Eastern Cyber Resilience Centre. I have also released open-source security language models on Hugging Face that have surpassed 3,500 downloads from practitioners working in security operations and regulated environments globally. The question I keep coming back to is one most of the AI conversation skips: how do regulated organisations in healthcare, financial ...