AI Security
How AI systems get attacked and misused, and how to defend them: prompt injection, data leakage, jailbreaks, poisoning, supply chain and AI agents.
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What Is AI Security? The Key Risks Explained
AI security means protecting AI systems from attack and misuse, and protecting your organisation from the new risks AI brings. Here are the main threats and…
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What Is Prompt Injection? Direct vs Indirect Attacks Explained
Prompt injection tricks an AI system into ignoring its instructions. Here’s how direct and indirect prompt injection work, real-world scenarios, and how to reduce the risk.
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OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications Explained
The OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications lists the most critical security risks in apps built on large language models. Here’s each risk in plain English,…
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AI Chatbot Data Leakage: How It Happens and How to Prevent It
Sensitive data leaks through AI chatbots in two directions: staff pasting it in, and chatbots giving it out. Here are the common leak paths and practical…
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What Is an LLM Jailbreak? What Security Teams Should Know
A jailbreak tricks a large language model into ignoring its safety rules. Here’s how jailbreaks work, how they differ from prompt injection, and how to limit…
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Data Poisoning Explained: How Attackers Corrupt AI Models
Data poisoning manipulates the data an AI model learns from, to plant backdoors, biases or errors. Here’s how it works, where it happens in practice and…
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AI Supply Chain Risks: Models, Datasets, Packages and Vendors
Most AI is built from third-party parts: pre-trained models, datasets, libraries, plugins and APIs. Here are the supply chain risks in each layer and how to…
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AI Agent Security: The Risks of Giving AI Tools and Permissions
AI agents don’t just answer questions. They read email, browse, call APIs and take actions. Here are the security risks that creates and how to deploy…
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Shadow AI: What It Is and How to Manage It
Shadow AI is staff using AI tools the organisation hasn’t approved or doesn’t know about. Here’s why it happens, the risks it creates and how to…
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How to Red Team an AI Chatbot: A Beginner’s Guide
Red teaming tests your AI chatbot the way a determined user or attacker would, before launch. Here’s a practical, beginner-friendly process: scope, test areas, scoring and…