
Understand what large language models are and how transformer architecture, attention, and tokenizers differ from traditional AI, enabling secure deployment across cloud, on premises, and edge environments, addressing security challenges.
Explore the unique trust boundaries, expanded attack surfaces, and diverse threat actors shaping LLM security, including prompt injection, model manipulation, and integration risk across training data and APIs.
The OWASP foundation leads standardized LM security practices, highlighting 2025 updates on supply chain, model provenance, vector database security, and Rag system security, risk assessment, and proactive, community-driven defense.
Distinguish system prompts from user prompts, prevent prompt injection, and apply zero trust with verification to secure llm outputs and guide effective human in the loop.
Apply a defense-in-depth security architecture for LLM applications, defining trust boundaries, segmenting components, and implementing preventive, detective, responsive, and corrective controls—driven by security by design and risk classification.
Explore prompt injection fundamentals, including direct and indirect techniques, jailbreaking methods, and how attackers exploit instruction hierarchy to hijack LLM behavior in real-world settings.
Explore real-world prompt injection scenarios, revealing system prompt extraction, data exfiltration via hidden instructions, privilege escalation, and multi-stage attacks blending social engineering with technical methods.
Mitigate prompt injection by combining semantic input validation, content segmentation, and robust guardrails to separate system instructions from user data, enabling layered filtering and safe LLM responses.
Master five pillars of information disclosure prevention for language models, including data minimization and output filtering. Implement robust access boundaries, session isolation, and real-time monitoring to prevent leaks.
Map the llm supply chain, identifying foundation models, datasets, plugins, and unverified sources, then implement continuous risk assessment across dependencies to mitigate ai security threats.
Explore five primary supply chain attack vectors threatening AI system integrity, including backdoored models, parameter manipulation, training data poisoning, third party library vulnerabilities, and plugin security weaknesses.
Explore five essential AI supply chain security controls: dependency auditing, model integrity verification, software bill of materials for AI systems, digital signatures and checksums, and secure deployment pipelines.
Learn how data and model poisoning corrupt AI learning, including training versus fine tuning poisoning, subtle data manipulation, backdoors, and targeted concept drift.
Explore five real-world poisoning attack scenarios, including web scraping manipulation, dataset contamination, backdoored model creation, targeted hallucination injection, and bias amplification, with defenses like provenance tracking and anomaly detection.
Explore comprehensive defenses against data and model poisoning across the AI development lifecycle, including provenance verification, validation testing, adversarial training, continuous model testing, and incident response.
Explore improper output handling risks from LLMs, including XSS, SQL injection, remote code execution, and command injection. Learn encoding, parameterization, and validation to mitigate these threats across AI-enabled apps.
Trace MLM output attack chains from generation to execution, identifying vulnerability points in processing workflows and risks of automated code execution and privilege escalation.
Treat all llm outputs as untrusted and validate before any use. Implement layered validation, proper encoding, content security policy, and sandboxing to prevent injections across html, js, sql contexts.
Understand how LM agency enables autonomous and semi-autonomous actions, from API calls to database updates, and assess the security risks, unchecked actions, and least-privilege controls.
Explore agency risk scenarios in AI systems, including API access abuse, file system manipulation, and harmful action automation. Learn mitigation through monitoring, approval workflows, API whitelisting, and resource quotas.
Explore how system prompts leak as hidden business logic, differentiate system vs user prompts, and defend against direct extraction and side-channel attacks that reveal internal security and operations.
Explore prompt extraction techniques used to uncover system prompts and business logic, including reverse engineering, social engineering, automated tools, and API response analysis to strengthen AI security and risk mitigation.
Learn a multi-layered approach to system prompt protection, including secure system prompt crafting, sensitive data avoidance, response filtering, prompt isolation, and access control for prompt modification.
Explore vector and embedding security foundations, including embedding generation and storage, vector databases, and vulnerabilities that enable attackers in retrieval augmented generation and knowledge base contamination risks.
Explore how rag-enabled systems face real-time threats, including malicious document insertion, vector space manipulation, semantic search poisoning, and embedding-based data extraction, with real-world case examples and defense considerations.
Securing rag systems requires implementing granular permission systems, input validation frameworks, embedding integrity verification, and real-time filtering and monitoring to prevent semantic leaks.
Explore how LLM misinformation arises from hallucinations, training data biases, and bias amplification, and examine the psychological and social dynamics that make false outputs persuasive.
Explore a comprehensive framework for assessing misinformation risks in AI systems, including decision making, societal impacts, verification protocols, and medicine, law, and finance.
Explore advanced misinformation detection for LLMs, including fact checking integration with authoritative sources, benchmarking with truthful QA, adversarial testing, continuous testing, and ongoing output quality monitoring.
Mitigate misinformation in AI systems through a layered framework combining technical controls, human oversight, and user education, with expert reviews, confidence scoring, and multi-modal validation.
Are you building or managing AI-powered applications and want to protect your LLMs from the most critical security threats? This course gives you hands-on, practical skills to secure Large Language Models (LLMs) using the OWASP Top 10 LLM 2025 framework — the industry standard for AI security.
Why This Course is Different:
Learn by doing! Beyond theory, you’ll get:
Chapter Quizzes – Test your knowledge and reinforce learning after every OWASP risk.
Real-World Case Studies – Explore scenarios like prompt injection, data leakage, and bias amplification, and see how to mitigate them step by step.
Downloadable LLM Security Toolkit – Your ready-to-use toolkit includes:
OWASP Top 10 LLM Cheat Sheet – Quick reference for vulnerabilities & mitigation.
LLM Security Policies – Templates for safe deployment and monitoring.
Threat Modeling & Risk Register Templates – Document and track risks easily.
Vulnerability Assessment & Incident Response Templates – Step-by-step guides for audits and incidents.
Developer Security Checklist – Security-by-design guide for building safe LLM apps.
Sample Security Assessment Report – Professional example to benchmark your assessment process.
What You’ll Learn:
Deep dive into all OWASP Top 10 LLM Risks, including prompt injection, model theft, data leakage, and bias.
Threat modeling & risk prioritization specifically for LLMs.
Attack simulation & detection – learn to spot vulnerabilities before they’re exploited.
Mitigation strategies & secure AI lifecycle – integrate security from data prep to deployment.
Who Should Enroll:
Software developers, AI engineers, web developers, cybersecurity professionals, analysts, and DevSecOps teams looking to build, deploy, or maintain secure AI systems.
Take control of LLM security today! Enroll now and get the practical tools, quizzes, and real-world case studies you need to protect your AI applications from the top threats of 2025.