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AI security

Protecting AI systems and the organisations that use them: attacks, defences and secure practices.

Courses

AI security intermediate

Securing RAG, tools and agents

Access control across a retrieval index, the confused deputy problem in tool use, and keeping an agent inside its blast radius.

4 lessons 1 hr 3 min Free

Guides

35 in this topic

AI security Guide · 1 min

Introduction to AI Security

What AI security covers — attacks on models, data and AI applications — and how it differs from traditional security.

AI security 1 min read 29 Jun 2025

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The OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications

An overview of the widely used list of the most critical security risks for applications built on language models.

AI security 1 min read 28 Jun 2025

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Jailbreaks: How They Work and How to Defend

How people try to get models to bypass their safety training, common techniques, and layered defences.

AI security 1 min read 27 Jun 2025

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Indirect Prompt Injection

How attackers hide instructions in web pages, emails and documents that AI systems read, and why it's so dangerous for agents.

AI security 1 min read 26 Jun 2025

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Data Poisoning Attacks

How attackers corrupt training or fine-tuning data to change model behaviour, and how to protect data pipelines.

AI security 1 min read 25 Jun 2025

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Backdoors in Machine Learning Models

How hidden triggers can be planted in models, why they're hard to detect, and how to reduce the risk.

AI security 1 min read 24 Jun 2025

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Adversarial Examples

How tiny, carefully crafted changes to inputs can fool machine learning models, and approaches to robustness.

AI security 1 min read 23 Jun 2025

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Model Extraction and Theft

How attackers steal models by copying weights or imitating them through queries, and how to protect model assets.

AI security 1 min read 22 Jun 2025

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Privacy Attacks on Machine Learning

How models can reveal information about their training data — membership inference, memorisation, inversion — and defences.

AI security 1 min read 21 Jun 2025

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Securing AI Agents

Practical controls for agents that use tools and act autonomously: least privilege, isolation, approval and monitoring.

AI security 1 min read 20 Jun 2025

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Securing LLM Application Outputs

Why model output must be treated as untrusted input to other systems, and how to avoid injection and unsafe actions.

AI security 1 min read 19 Jun 2025

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Secrets and Credentials in AI Systems

Keeping API keys, passwords and tokens out of prompts, training data and model reach.

AI security 1 min read 18 Jun 2025

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AI Supply Chain Security

Managing the risks of third-party models, datasets, libraries and tools in AI systems.

AI security 1 min read 17 Jun 2025

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Deepfakes and Synthetic Media Threats

How AI-generated audio, video and images are used in fraud and disinformation, and how organisations can defend.

AI security 1 min read 15 Jun 2025

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AI-Powered Cyber Attacks

How attackers use AI to scale phishing, find vulnerabilities and automate attacks, and what it means for defenders.

AI security 1 min read 14 Jun 2025

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Threat Modelling AI Applications

A structured way to identify how an AI system could be attacked or misused before building defences.

AI security 1 min read 13 Jun 2025

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Red Teaming LLM Applications for Security

Planning and running adversarial security tests against AI applications, and turning findings into fixes.

AI security 1 min read 12 Jun 2025

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Monitoring and Detection for AI Systems

What to log and watch in production AI applications to detect attacks, misuse and leaks.

AI security 1 min read 11 Jun 2025

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Incident Response for AI Systems

Preparing for and handling security incidents involving AI applications, models and agents.

AI security 1 min read 10 Jun 2025