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Overview of LLM Architecture and Attack Surface

  • Understanding how LLMs are built, deployed, and accessed via APIs
  • Key components in LLM app stacks (e.g., prompts, agents, memory, APIs)
  • Origins and mechanisms of security issues in real-world scenarios

Prompt Injection and Jailbreak Attacks

  • Understanding prompt injection and its associated dangers
  • Direct and indirect prompt injection scenarios
  • Jailbreaking techniques used to bypass safety filters
  • Strategies for detection and mitigation

Data Leakage and Privacy Risks

  • Preventing accidental data exposure through model responses
  • Addressing PII leaks and misuse of model memory
  • Designing privacy-conscious prompts and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures

LLM Output Filtering and Guarding

  • Employing Guardrails AI for content filtering and validation
  • Defining strict output schemas and constraints
  • Monitoring and logging unsafe outputs

Human-in-the-Loop and Workflow Approaches

  • Identifying appropriate contexts for introducing human oversight
  • Managing approval queues, scoring thresholds, and fallback handling
  • Calibrating trust and leveraging explainability

Secure LLM App Design Patterns

  • Applying least privilege principles and sandboxing for API calls and agents
  • Implementing rate limiting, throttling, and abuse detection
  • Ensuring robust chaining with LangChain and prompt isolation

Compliance, Logging, and Governance

  • Ensuring the auditability of LLM outputs
  • Maintaining traceability and prompt/version control
  • Aligning operations with internal security policies and regulatory requirements

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Understanding of large language models and prompt-based interfaces
  • Experience in developing LLM applications using Python
  • Familiarity with API integrations and cloud-based deployments

Audience

  • AI developers
  • Application and solution architects
  • Technical product managers working with LLM tools
 14 Hours

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