
Kick off this course by mastering the fundamentals of LLM pentesting, tools, sandboxed environments, Portswigger labs, prompt injection, data extraction, adversarial prompting, defenses, OWASP model, and a capstone project.
Explore the large language model's architecture, including encoder, tokenization, attention mechanism, and text generation, and learn how these components power AI models across healthcare, legal, and financial sectors.
Identify and mitigate LLM vulnerabilities by focusing on four pillars—data security, model security, infrastructure security, and ethical considerations—to prevent data leakage (PII), false information, and legal consequences.
Assess data security in language models by identifying vulnerabilities such as false information leaks and confidential data exposure, and implement best practices like data minimization, encryption, access control, and audits.
Protect the model's structure and functionality from unauthorized changes and biases, and reinforce guardrails against prompt injection, training data poisoning, and performance degradation.
Assess infrastructure security by examining hardware and software environments, including cloud hosting, firewalls with inbound and outbound rules, intrusion detection systems, physical security, encryption, and secure hosting providers.
Explore ethical considerations in language model security to prevent harm, guard against harmful content, misinformation, and biased outputs; review examples of bias and vulnerabilities in the OWASP model.
Explore the OWASP top ten vulnerabilities for large language models, including prompt injection, insecure output handling, data poisoning, data leakage, supply chain risks, and indirect injection, with hands-on labs.
Explore exploiting LLM APIs with excessive agency by mapping attack surfaces, manipulating prompts, escalating roles, and issuing raw SQL commands to access data and reset passwords.
Examine LLM APIs for os command injection vulnerabilities by mapping the attack surface, then attempt to delete Morales.txt from Carlos's home directory via API-driven command execution.
Explore indirect prompt injection in a simulated lab, using live chat and product reviews to trigger account actions such as deletion and password resets.
Demonstrate how insecure output handling in LLMs enables cross-site scripting and iframe-based payloads to affect accounts and expose product information.
Implement input sanitization by reducing prompt size to prevent prompt-based abuses. Filter input and output, synchronize user requests with responses, and apply the least-privilege principle to limit LLM access.
Explore guardrails in language model security: policy enforcement, ethical and compliance guardrails, contextual and adaptive guardrails, real-time monitoring, and feedback loops behind the LMS line of defense.
LLM Pentesting: Mastering Security Testing for AI Models
Course Description:
Dive into the rapidly evolving field of Large Language Model (LLM) security with this comprehensive course designed for both beginners and seasoned security professionals. LLM Pentesting: Mastering Security Testing for AI Models will equip you with the skills to identify, exploit, and defend against vulnerabilities specific to AI-driven systems.
What You’ll Learn:
Foundations of LLMs: Understand what LLMs are, their unique architecture, and how they process data to make intelligent predictions.
LLM Security Challenges: Explore the core aspects of data, model, and infrastructure security, alongside ethical considerations critical to safe LLM deployment.
Hands-On LLM Hacking Techniques: Delve into practical demonstrations based on the LLM OWASP Top 10, covering prompt injection attacks, API vulnerabilities, excessive agency exploitation, and output handling.
Defensive Strategies: Learn defensive techniques, including input sanitization, implementing model guardrails, filtering, and adversarial training to future-proof AI models.
Course Structure:
This course is designed for self-paced learning with 2+ hours of high-quality video content (and more to come). It’s divided into 4 key sections:
Section 1: Introduction - Course overview and key objectives.
Section 2: All About LLMs - Fundamentals of LLMs, data and model security, and ethical considerations.
Section 3: LLM Hacking - Hands-on hacking tactics and a unique LLM hacking game for applied learning.
Section 4: Defensive Strategies for LLMs - Proven defense techniques to mitigate vulnerabilities and secure AI systems.
Whether you’re looking to build new skills or advance your career in AI security, this course will guide you through mastering the security testing techniques required for modern AI applications.
Enroll today to gain the insights, skills, and confidence needed to become an expert in LLM security testing!