How companies increase risk exposure with rushed LLM deployments

2024-07-10 04:30

In this Help Net Security interview, Jake King, Head of Threat & Security Intelligence at Elastic, discusses companies' exposure to new security risks and vulnerabilities as they rush to deploy LLMs. King explains how LLMs pose significant risks to data privacy and outlines strategies for mitigating these security risks.

While many companies are jumping on the generative AI bandwagon and rushing to deploy LLMs as quickly as they can, this has increased their exposure to new risks and vulnerabilities.

These include capabilities such as prompt injection, where threat actors manipulate the LLM input to control the produced output, and sensitive data exposure.

Companies must approve and monitor the use of LLM technologies among their staff, as well as oversee customer usage of any LLM solutions released by their organization.

Standardized system hardening to reduce an organization's attack surface and LLM security best practices can also allow those looking to ship LLM technology into their production environments to maintain a low risk.

How can industry collaboration improve the overall security of LLMs? Transparency and knowledge sharing are key for enhancing industry collaboration on LLM security.

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