Threat modeling LLM apps

Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science, LLM

If you have questions at the intersection of Cybersecurity and AI, you need to know Donato at WithSecure! Donato has been threat modeling AI applications and seriously applying those models in his day-to-day work. He joins us in this episode to discuss his LLM application security canvas, prompt injections, alignment, and more.

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Featuring:

• Donato Capitella – Website
• Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• The Security Canvas for LLM Applications
• LLM Security Chronicles Playlist on YouTube
• Should you let ChatGPT control your browser?
• When your AI assistant has an evil twin
• Pliny the Liberator - jailbreak guru

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1. Welcome to Practical AI (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Assembly AI (00:00:35)

https://www.assemblyai.com

3. Donato's journey in gen AI (00:04:10)

4. The most secure LLM (00:07:11)

5. What is a threat model? (00:08:58)

6. Commonplace AI security (00:10:38)

7. Setting up guard rails (00:14:20)

8. Sponsor: Porkbun (00:22:34)

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9. Model checking (00:24:48)

10. Closed LLM endpoints (00:34:17)

11. input & output validation (00:37:17)

12. Sponsor: Changelog News (00:41:32)

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13. RLHF in alignment (00:43:19)

14. Jailbreakers vs aligners (00:46:37)

15. Exciting things to explore (00:50:25)

16. Thanks for listening! (00:53:24)

17. Outro (00:53:51)