Antisyphon Training Anticasts

Summary
Are you currently testing your AI systems the same way you test traditional apps?

🛝 Webcast Slides
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Join AI researchers Brian Fehrman and Derek Banks for a free one-hour training session that breaks down the OWASP Top 10 AI-LLM risks clearly and practically.

You’ll learn in this Antisyphon Anti-cast how LLM security issues show up in real systems, how attackers test them, and what to focus on to secure AI applications with a practical, security-first mindset.


Chapters
  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (01:09) - Webcast Agenda
  • (02:21) - Workshop: Hacking AI-LLM Applications
  • (02:49) - Training: Attacking, Defending, and Leveraging AI-LLM Systems
  • (03:11) - BHIS AI Security Assessments
  • (03:24) - AI Security Ops Podcast
  • (03:56) - LLM Security Introduction
  • (05:57) - Foundation Model Training
  • (09:35) - Chatbot
  • (14:58) - AI Agents
  • (17:56) - LLM Safety Versus Security
  • (23:54) - OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
  • (24:33) - – Prompt Injection
  • (29:11) - – Sensitive Information Disclosure
  • (32:46) - – Supply Chain
  • (37:02) - – Data and Model Poisoning
  • (40:18) - – Improper Output Handling
  • (41:51) - – Exessive Agency
  • (43:47) - – System Prompt Leakage
  • (45:17) - – Vector and Embedding Weaknesses
  • (46:49) - – Misinformation
  • (49:45) - – Unbounded Consumption
  • (52:10) - Red Team Methodology
  • (53:06) - Threat Modeling an LLM App
  • (54:41) - Defense-in-Depth for LLM Apps
  • (55:49) - Red Team Tools & Frameworks
  • (56:31) - Key Takeaways
  • (01:00:34) - Q&A



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Creators and Guests

Host
Zach Hill
Guest
Brian Fehrman
Brian Fehrman is a long-time BHIS Security Researcher and Consultant with extensive academic credentials and industry certifications who specializes in AI, hardware hacking, and red teaming, and outside of work is an avid Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner, big-game hunter, and home-improvement enthusiast.
Guest
Derek Banks
Derek is a BHIS Security Consultant, Penetration Tester, and Red Teamer with advanced degrees, industry certifications, and broad experience across forensics, incident response, monitoring, and offensive security, who enjoys learning from colleagues, helping clients improve their security, and spending his free time with family, fitness, and playing bass guitar.
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Producer
Meagan Bentley

What is Antisyphon Training Anticasts?

Podcast audio-only versions of weekly webcasts from Antisyphon Training

Zach Hill:

Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Welcome to today's Anti Cast with Brian Fearman and Derek Banks where they are going to be teaching us all about AI LLM red teaming, OWASP top 10 for LLM applications. I'm really stoked, to go to the backstage and listen to you guys today.

Zach Hill:

So I'm gonna go ahead and, do that here in just a second, but I wanna let you all know that there is a CTF today. So stay tuned for the end of the webcast where we'll be announcing, the link for that so you guys can go and, participate in the CTF and win some free training from Antisyphon Training. And we'll also do a little bit of q and a at the end, so when there's about five or so minutes left, I'll come back and we'll answer any questions that that we may have missed or we haven't got to. So heading to the backstage, good luck, have fun. See you later.

Derek Banks:

Thanks. Thanks. I'm not sure all about all encompassing AI red team, but just a little taste because maybe the full class is a little bit more all about.

Brian Fehrman:

Yeah. I think that's spot on. So so yeah. And, I mean, in particular, what we're gonna go through and really focus on here is the OWASP top 10 for LM applications, particularly generative LM. I think they've got it broken out now.

Brian Fehrman:

Derek, you sent me over a link earlier. There's one on agentic specifically now. And I think they have, like, help. Yeah. Think they have a more general one as well too.

Brian Fehrman:

Yeah. But the, yeah, the generative one is what what we'll focus on here. So first though, before we kick that off, we'll give you a little bit of an introduction on LLMs and, kind of security versus safety concepts as a primer. So that when we're going through and talking about the different, o loss categories, it makes a little bit more sense. We'll then take a deep dive into the categories, each one of them, give our thoughts on them, and then, talk a little bit about red team methodology workflow, and then wrap up by going through some defensive, frameworks, best practices, tools, other stuff you guys can use.

Brian Fehrman:

I see my dog is moving around, restlessly in the back, so we'll go with it.

Derek Banks:

It's okay. Mine is barking at a delivery man across the street. So Nice.

Brian Fehrman:

Alright. We I didn't know that we are going to do advertisement upfront, so we're gonna bake it into these slides as well. I'm sure this will result in a meeting or some angry messages, but we are gonna go with it. So, coming up, if you like this webcast and we would like some more on this, well, then Friday, Derek and I are doing a workshop, that you can sign up for four hours $25, and you can get some hands on experience as well as deeper dive into the material. And if you are a fan of that and would like even more, then we do have a full two day course that you can, join on where we will dive even deeper into, tooling, defensive practice, applications, as well as how you can leverage AI in your, daily workflow.

Brian Fehrman:

So also time to give a shout out for Black Hills information security in general. If you are in need of any, AI security assessments or really any security assessments in general, we can help you out there. And lastly, for advertising here, it's we really packed it in. Oh, Derek, you're muted.

Derek Banks:

I was gonna say, if you haven't got your fill of us yet, every week, you can get

Brian Fehrman:

your fill Every week. Yes. We do have a podcast that is out there on YouTube. We record at least a new episode each week, release a new episode each week, where we talk about different topics such as news and take deep dives into AI topics, have guests on, as well as answer questions from the community. So with that, let's dive into the LLM security introduction.

Derek Banks:

Let's talk about what is a large language model. So this is just kind of a taste in the full class, there's a whole kind of section on machine learning neural networks and what large language models are but in a nutshell, it's a very big neural network deep learning AI model that's been trained on tons, when I say a lot of vast amount of textual data, we're talking about trillions and trillions and trillions of tokens. Right? And so really, transformers came about, in 2017. Some researchers from Google wrote a paper, called attention is all you need.

Derek Banks:

And so what was meant by that paper is that bolting on top of a neural network was this fancy math called an attention mechanism, which basically, is able to take a set of text, a set of tokens, and derive the context of words, which was a huge leap forward in natural language processing at the time. So the example I like to use is that, you know, my youngest daughter is a competitive swimmer and she has a swim coach and my wife likes handbags and has a coach handbag. And as a, you know, a human, when you hear that, you instinctually know, like, the context of the word, like, what coach means. But the you know, in in earlier natural language processing, that context was kind of tough to to cut kind of, you know, measure. And that's what the attention mechanism really does kind of at a high level.

Brian Fehrman:

Yeah. Yeah. I think that's spot on. Like you said, I mean, that was definitely one of one of the biggest, breakthroughs that has really enabled, everything that we are seeing and using today when it comes to, come comes to the AI technologies that are becoming quickly integrated into most people's workflow and daily lives.

Derek Banks:

And so, yeah, here, it's kind of a kind of a graphic on just what is involved in training what we'll call a foundational model. And what we mean by a foundational model is, pretty much the the basis of probably any large language model that you're using right now. So and then after the foundation model, there's more stuff that's done to it, but kind of, you know, the expensive part, and why it's called a large language model is essentially these companies are probably what seven frontier companies right now, something like that. They take large amounts of text typically, you know, gathered from the Internet And then they take all that text and they essentially tokenize it. And what is meant by tokenizing is basically taking the words and breaking them in into single tokens that will then eventually be embedded into a essentially like a a linear algebra matrix, a vector.

Derek Banks:

And and and then one thing to know about tokens too is that even though on the screen it says the cat sat, sometimes a longer word like unambiguous might be broken up into un and then ambiguous. And so they might break up parts of words to get different tokens, so it may be like a stem of a word. And they take all of that and predict the next token. And the process is called semi supervised learning. And once they do all this next token prediction, essentially what you come out on the other side is essentially like a brain file or a kind of a big collection of weights.

Derek Banks:

So if you looked at like what a large language model like looks like if it was on disk, it's basically one giant matrix. And when I say giant, if you've ever seen, you know, like, say, we'll take a llama for example and it has a seven b number of parameters, that's like 7,000,000,000 parameters. The current foundational models, they don't really publish like how many, you know, how many parameters are in the models. But it's estimated to be over a trillion and sometimes even multiple trillions of parameters, in in the big models that we're using now. And so what does it take to to make one of those things?

Derek Banks:

We're kinda talking about, like, energy usage during pre show banter. So, yeah, I was spitballing here. If you're gonna train a large language model, you'll need somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty five zero GPUs and each one of those GPUs probably cost 20 to $25,000. So you need what, you know, $60.70, $100,000,000. And I think, you know, we're probably at a at a race to have the first trillion dollar data center would be my guess for when the, you know, GPT six or whatever is coming out.

Derek Banks:

Usually takes on the order of, you know, a quarter, ninety days or so to to train one of these things and takes the energy requirements of what, like a small city. So so that's kind of what's involved with training an LLM. So when you go use, you know, the latest Claude or ChatGPT, that thing was probably trained throughout, you know, the the last 2025.

Brian Fehrman:

Yeah. And so, you know, the short answer I give when we talk about what does it take to train is money. Yes. Money. Money.

Brian Fehrman:

Money. Lots of money. A giant pile of money. So Yes. Yeah.

Brian Fehrman:

The way that we'll interact with AI or LMs, really are gonna come into two different forms that were that that we can kind of, form, like, a little bit of a dichotomy at least on a on a day to day basis for for most people, at least how I broke them out here. So the first is, the the chatbot, which is what a lot of people are gonna be familiar with, a lot of even non technical users. This is what they're what they're going to see and what they're gonna think of when you say AI at this point. And so really what are the components of this? Well, you have the the interaction aspect of it, which is known as the user prompt.

Brian Fehrman:

So this is the actual input from the user and typically it is going to be through some kind of an actual like chat looking interface, some kind of a chat window. Behind the scenes though, is what is called the system prompt. Now the system prompt is something that is going to be put in either by the developers or the deployers of the model depending on how it is set up. And what it is is it's a set of instructions for kind of the the personality of the bot, who the bot is and how it should behave, and also what it should do or what it shouldn't do. And maybe also give some, output formatting instructions.

Brian Fehrman:

So like, hey, when you output information, output it in, you know, in this markdown format, you know, what whatever you want. And this actually gets pre pended onto the user prompt, and this all kinda happens in the back end. So when you send in your your prompt, your user prompt, the system prompt will get prepended onto it. You're gonna get all kinda mashed together before it finally gets sent off to the AI LM for processing, and then eventually you get your response. But you can also have different tools that you add on to the chatbot, so it can reach out to APIs, it can use different scripts.

Brian Fehrman:

You can also add in an optional knowledge. So what Derek was talking about was aspect of it. So if you go to use a model, it the data that's been trained on is is old, right? It's historical data. So maybe the training happened at the 2025.

Brian Fehrman:

That means that new information that comes past that is not baked into the model. And it has to have a way to be able to to get fresh information without going through that entire expensive process of retraining every single time. So that's where you can add in, Rag systems, retrieval augment generation. So you're augmenting its knowledge capabilities using documents or policies or different reference materials. And so then for a custom chatbot, really what that is is custom system prompting with the optional tools and knowledge that you put on top of it.

Brian Fehrman:

It's not, in most cases, going to be an entirely new model that someone has cooked up because most people just don't have the resources for that to make something meaningful. What it's going to be is basically some kind of a reconfiguration of an existing model.

Derek Banks:

Yeah. I don't know why I try and keep track of of what Discord while you're teaching. But I I saw I saw that someone asked how many parameters we're talking about, you know, 1,800,000,000,000 parameters in, you know, a foundational model. How many are in the human brain? Yeah.

Derek Banks:

The human brain is a lot more sophisticated and elegant than our current neural networks, which, you know, we we earlier in this webcast aren't going into details, but a neural network is modeled after the human brain. You have a concept of like a neuron and then weights that connect neurons mathematically instead of chemically. And so I think there's in the neighborhood of a 100,000,000,000 neurons in your brain. And if you count all the connections as parameters, then I would say, like, it's like a 100,000,000,000,000. So still we haven't really got to, I think, like, what a human brain could do plus the power requirements.

Derek Banks:

I think the power requirement for a human brain is, five or seven watts or something like that. Whereas, yeah, LLMs take a lot more power to run. So because when you you know, we're talking about training on 25,000 GPUs. Right? So let's just say we were a company and we had 25,000 GPUs.

Derek Banks:

We could train models, but, okay, that didn't really get us very far. We also have to host the model and run it. Of our 25,000 GPUs, we would have to have some subset of them that would actually run the model for our users, so maybe 10,000 of them. And it's even actually more complicated than that. You have to worry about embedding layers and performance and stuff.

Derek Banks:

And so, so, you know, you know, these models, they're running on big GPUs too. And, you know, I don't know the scale, but my guess would be that it's, you know, tens of thousands of GPUs that run a current frontier model for everyone to use. Because when you go and you launch the web app of a chatbot and you interact with, you know, a chat GPT, you're interacting with your own, like, say session with that model. And if Brian goes and then has another session, we're not talking to the same kind of brain file, like, it's our own kind of, like, instance of it. And so you have kind of have to run that, you know, instance, you know, you have to support multiple ones of those.

Derek Banks:

And so it's you get the engineering becomes a lot more complicated to, you know, offer it to thousands and thousands and, you know, millions of users. And so this is one of those where, like, still I talked to some folks, and they haven't and, like, here in the last, what, two to three months, AI agents, if you're following AI news, is all the rage. And, if you're one of those folks that, wow, I've used chat GPT and I've used kind of chatbots, but I haven't really used an agent yet, I would encourage you to go check out AI agents. This is the other way that we're starting to interact with, with large language models. And so define an agent, I think the word kind of, you know, means a little bit different, things over the last couple of years.

Derek Banks:

But I'd like to look at it as, you know, a system that can, you know, essentially perceive and understand its environment, make decisions, and then most importantly take actions. And so I I think that if you're using something like Claude code or OpenCode, it doesn't really operate continuously, but sort of semi continuously, but there are things out there, if you've heard of open claw, that do operate continuously and then adapts, on on feedback that you give it. And then it can essentially plan and reason and and take action without, you know, custom or without constant human input. And so that's kind of in a nutshell, like what we'll call an agent.

Brian Fehrman:

Yeah. And that's, I mean, where the where the really interesting things happen. I say, the analogy I like to give is it's, you know, it's like giving a giving a AI limbs or, you know Yeah. Hands so to speak. Now it can reach out and can kinda take actions on on its own accord, which can can result in some interesting results.

Derek Banks:

Yeah. And so, I mean, basically, what is that agent? It's, you know, probably in most cases like an executable supported by a a a number of scripts and we'll call it, you know, skills is what they're called, a number of like, tech scripts and and configurations that essentially allow it to go through a loop that gives it that constant different than a chatbot essentially is a loop to go through and plan, make decisions, take action, and then get human feedback if it needs to all kind of within the application. And and the one that kind of, I think, you know, at the November kind of really started putting agents on the map for more than just kind of developers and and programmers, was called code. There's a couple other ones that are probably worth mentioning.

Derek Banks:

Open AI, a little late to the game, has codecs that's out. And then there's one that I really, like now. So by the way, OpenAI's codex is open source, which surprises me. I think it's open source rust. But there's open, open code as well, that you can then hook to any model.

Derek Banks:

And I I really like open code. Use clawed code but I've dabbled with open code and it's pretty powerful for open source software.

Brian Fehrman:

One more topic that we wanted to touch on, in terms of terminology and distinctions before moving into the OWASP top 10 because we feel that this is important to talk about these two two separate concerns because they often get conflated when people are talking about risks as that they feel is associated with AI LLM systems. There's a distinction to be made between a safety risk and a security risk. Now safety risks are gonna be more of things like alignment issues. So is the model doing the job that it was intended to do? So if you have a model that is intended to help you pick out auto car parts, you probably don't want it giving out legal information to people or medical advice, right?

Brian Fehrman:

You want it to be, to be focused on helping people find the best part for their car at the right cost, know, something like that alignment issues, right? Next up is bias and fairness, and, this is basically is the model, does the model have some obvious, bias in its output? When you ask it a certain question, does it seem entirely a neutral party when it is giving that, giving that response? And obviously, I'm I'm anthropomorphizing it a little bit. It's still just probabilistic output.

Brian Fehrman:

And the reality is is that since, you know, this is trained on Internet content, that Internet content came from people. People do, whether they have overt biases or not, definitely have subconscious biases that can come out into the content that gets put out. And that unfortunately makes its way into these LLMs as they're trained. But what you want to do is you want to look to see is that limited? Are you putting in measures to try to limit the amount of that bias that comes out or unfairness that comes out?

Brian Fehrman:

The next topic is harmful content. So basically, is the LLM providing information to users that could be used to potentially cause harm to others or to themselves? You know, basically, if I go and I'm like, hey, what's the best best keyboard, that I can use for, you know, working and it gives me a recipe for how to make a bomb, like, you know, obviously, that's that's that's not a great that's, not a great result from, from the LLM. But also, you know, we're talking about how easy is it for the people to get that information and where do you wanna draw that line. I mean, obviously, if someone tries hard enough, they're probably going to get it out and that might be a risk that you just need to accept at some point.

Brian Fehrman:

But the next safety issue is on confabulations, which originally called hallucinations. But I don't like the term hallucinations because to me that's more of like a visual or like auditory phenomenon that we don't really have with the AI LMs. I think confabulations is a more accurate term in which information is kind of garbled together or confused. But then what goes along with that can potentially be inaccurate information that's just simply not true that it gives out to. So these are all what we consider safety concerns.

Brian Fehrman:

They're not necessarily a security, what we consider security risk. When we start talking about security risk, we're talking more about sensitive information disclosure. Is it giving out passwords, API keys, user information, PII, health information? Is it just, you know, giving this out? Where is this information stored?

Brian Fehrman:

And is it is it willingly giving it to the users or do they have the ability to get it out with a certain level of effort? Then we also talk about excessive agency. So we gave the definition for agent earlier. Well, there's a concept of excessive agency which we'll talk about as we go through the OWASP Top 10, but that's, you know, basically that the LLM has access to more than what it really should. Then things such as training, data model poisoning, can you, basically inject inject information into the training data or, modify the model itself to behave in a way that it wasn't originally supposed to?

Brian Fehrman:

And then also concepts such as unbounded consumption in which you're overutilizing causing the LLM to overutilize resources. And we'll go into all these in more detail, in the coming slides. We just wanna make that distinction upfront of of of the two different issues that you can look at when you're talking about risks associated with AI, LLMs.

Derek Banks:

Yeah. Plus confabulation and unbounded consumption just sound cool. Sounds like Harry Potter spells.

Brian Fehrman:

Yes.

Derek Banks:

Right? The one thing, there's a comment in in Discord that, you know, implying any agent based on current transformer architecture can plan reason or perceive something is kind of meh. Well, I agree. I I do agree. The problem is is we don't have words to explain it in English without using those words.

Derek Banks:

Right? When you train or the model learns. I mean, the thing about machine learning, the dirty secret to machine learning is the machine is not learning. Not like a human learns. Right?

Derek Banks:

And, you know, like when Brian was talking about bias and fairness. Right? You know? Well, yeah. You know?

Derek Banks:

And, you know, we're putting human content in to, you know, to essentially a big, you know, scaled up next word predictor and we don't quite really understand how exactly it all works. There's actually a whole field called mechanistic interpretability that strives to explain how a transformer works when it's scaled up that like high because I don't think we quite have our minds around it. But I agree, like, in the terms of like what a human does is not what an LLM is doing. It is not it's it it I think it would better be better to say, like, instead of reasoning, like, simulated digital reasoning or something like that. So I do agree with you, but I also acknowledge that we don't necessarily have the the right words to explain it to people without saying basically, you know, anthropomorphizing it.

Brian Fehrman:

So with that, let's start diving into each of the OWASP top 10 for, LLM applications. They might be specifically generative LLM is what might be entitled. But yeah. So we've got this sweet color coded layout. The color coding means absolutely nothing, but it looks cool on the screen.

Brian Fehrman:

We don't need

Derek Banks:

to siphon read all colors.

Brian Fehrman:

What's that?

Derek Banks:

So we picked Antisyphon colors.

Brian Fehrman:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, then there's all these like other kind of random ones.

Derek Banks:

It would look boring if they were all gray.

Brian Fehrman:

Yeah. It would be. Yeah. Colors are fun. So let's start diving into each one of these.

Brian Fehrman:

So first one is prompt injection. So this is gonna be kind of the main one that you'll hear people talk about a lot when we're talking about AI security and testing AI and attacking AI. And essentially prompt injection is you are causing or altering the LLM behavior, trying to override the instructions that it has, or bypass restrictions or maybe cause it to do things that it wasn't supposed to do. And through, could be either direct or indirect attacks. So a direct attack might look like an interaction that you have specifically with the chat window.

Brian Fehrman:

So you are manually typing in the commands that are getting sent to the LLM to try to do the prompt injection. Or you can have an indirect method in which you maybe upload some content through like a document or point it to some kind of a website where it goes and it gets those malicious instructions that get then get put into its into the prompting pipeline. And the core of this of this whole vulnerability was the fact that at this point right now, there is no definitive way to separate out trusted from untrusted data. So if you think about SQL injection, we have had parameterized queries for a while, in which it is explicit and distinct of what the trusted portion of the commander instruction is versus the untrusted data that gets put into that. There's no real way at this point to do that with LLMs.

Brian Fehrman:

There's lots of ways that people try to get around it with delimiters, multiple models, and other architectures. But at the end, I mean, really all the instructions are getting mashed together and it's just a matter of getting the AI to pay more attention to your instructions than all the instructions that come before or after it.

Derek Banks:

Yeah. And I think that, as we move forward into, the agentic wave that's coming, I really think indirect prompt injection is going to be a huge deal, going forward just because I think that's gonna be kind of the gist of how you, you know, how you attack a an agentic type system.

Brian Fehrman:

Yeah. Yep. Certainly as, people are trusting the, the agents to go out on their behalf to different sources to grab different information and to put that into a feedback loop, I absolutely agree that I think that that's where we're gonna see more and more of is people basically planting out this malicious content and trying to set it up in such a way that agents are more apt to go out and grab it.

Derek Banks:

Yeah. Or or if you're using something and this just happened with OpenClaw, which if you're not familiar with, is kind of an agentic a novel and unique take on agentic AI that's basically instead of prompting it through a web app or a command line, you use a messaging system like Telegram or Slack or something. And there's immediately there was a marketplace for skills for this open source project and like out of the top 100, I don't know, was like, you know, the top 10 of them were malicious. I think the most popular skill had malicious code in it because, yeah, that's fun.

Brian Fehrman:

Yeah. So, you know, defense mechanisms, there are, you know, there are different different defense routes that you can look into. None of these alone are perfect, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't use them. We're talking about defense in-depth, as with any other security application. And so looking at things like input and output, both validation and filtering, trying to catch prompt injection attacks attacks on the input and the output side, then trying to stop it, putting in security measures into the system prompt itself to try to mitigate, the, you know, the behavioral overriding, if you will.

Brian Fehrman:

And then lastly, certainly human in the loop, for high risk actions, especially when we're talking about the agentic side of things. You probably want a person there to press the yes or no button if you have a high risk action transaction that's going to occur.

Derek Banks:

Yeah. And and like I think one of the most important things here is this isn't fixable. I don't think there'll ever be an LLM that this is fixable. It's kind of baked into how they work and and perhaps like the the best part about all this is what do you how do you input output, you know, the the validation filtering? We'll have more of that in the full class, but I I I've like, it still makes me laugh that the best way to protect an LLM is to put another LLM in front of it.

Brian Fehrman:

Alright. Moving on to the next one, sensitive information disclosure. So this is one that we, we kind of riffed on a little bit as we were putting this together. It's it's a little bit weird because it's not really it's not necessarily like a vulnerability in itself so much as like an outcome or Yeah. I would call it more of like like an outcome.

Brian Fehrman:

Right? Like it's it's a you could get this through prompt injection, you could get this if the architecture is just not set up correctly. And it really is just the LLM giving out information to people that you don't want to have that information. Right? And so this could be oh, go ahead.

Derek Banks:

Oh, no, no, I I didn't. I I have a point, but I'm a let I'm a let you finish.

Brian Fehrman:

Okay. Yeah. So one of the things is, certainly, when it comes to system prompts, you certainly don't wanna be putting in sensitive information within that system prompt. And I think there's a whole another actually LLM entry for that that we'll talk about later. But, you know, treat the system prompts as they're they're going to be public.

Brian Fehrman:

You also need to make sure that data is being properly isolated because if an LLM has access to a database, then the user who has access to the LLM also has access to that database in some way, shape or form. And so certainly want to make sure that you're minimizing or isolating who has access to what when they're interacting through the LLM.

Derek Banks:

And I think, you know, probably one of the best examples of this is, if you're working at a company and, you know, it's been around for a while and you have that n or m drive where everybody dumps their stuff or maybe you have SharePoint that just has data everywhere and you decide that it's a good idea to spend $30 a month, at least I think that's how much it costs to get the full on Microsoft Copilot. And and essentially, what if you don't have a full data governance program and have data labeled appropriately and really have a handle on like your data classification, which let's face it, most companies don't really have that at the moment, then this sensitive information disclosure is a huge risk if you get a compromised account that has access to Copilot, the full on Copilot because just it will be able to go get data that it has access to. And so we've actually done this on on test multiple times. Just go ask Copilot like for the data and find the passwords because it's already, you know, vectorized and has access to it.

Brian Fehrman:

Ready to go packaged up. Just got just got to ask for it.

Derek Banks:

That's right. Yeah. And that kinda gets into, you know, how we defend. Right? And so, know, first defense is maybe don't give the LLM any agency to sensitive information.

Derek Banks:

That that would be my first first take on it. Definitely data loss prevention and and output filtering on on responses coming out of the LLM, so more like filtering on the back end of it. And then, you know, just isolating and properly, know, categorizing data. So, yeah, if you've ever, you know, thought it's gonna be a lot of work to go through and categorize and label all of our data, yeah, you're right. Maybe you get AI to help you do it.

Derek Banks:

Claude, go organize and label all of my data.

Brian Fehrman:

Job done.

Derek Banks:

Job done. Time for lunch. Yep.

Brian Fehrman:

Alright. Let's move on to the next one. Supply chain, call it compromise risks issues. So there are a few ways that this one can kind of manifest itself. One of the ways that this was coming up originally that is kind of an address now though is we'd see pickle files as one way that models would be stored and distributed.

Brian Fehrman:

And people could, essentially insert backdoors or, code into those pickle files that would execute when you download and run the model. That's, largely been addressed through the use of safe tensors, but I mean the the pickle file format is still out there and is still being distributed. But you know, so that that's one way is is within model files themselves that that we might see like within a supply chain compromise. But I think the one that we see a lot more or that we might be seeing a lot more of is the third party plugins or tool integrations. This isn't something obviously that's unique to LLMs or AI, but it's, it's just kind of a new take on it, especially as, the agentic aspect of AI becomes more widely adopted and people are trying to find more plugins and tools to make their agent function at a little bit higher level, if you will.

Brian Fehrman:

Certainly gonna see more people putting out these malicious plugins, these doppelgangers, or trying to compromise, what are legitimate plugins ins that that are out there. Another one that isn't going to really apply to, I would say, the majority of people is that the poison datasets from public sources. And I say that because most people aren't going to be doing full training of models. You might be doing fine tuning, but I think even at this point, that group is probably growing smaller and smaller in terms of, like, the supervised fine training. Obviously, it depends on your business use case.

Brian Fehrman:

But that's going to be more of who's gonna be affected by these by these poisoned data sources of people going out and purposely putting in bad information into training data with the intent of changing the behavior of the model that might ingest that data as part of its training or fine tuning. So in terms of, you know, defenses, one of the things that's recommended is essentially a software bill of materials, for all the different AI components that you might use within your deployment and checking that, what is being used by your model is what you expect it to be is what you expect it to be using. Right? If you're grabbing out, or using models, just especially, you know, grabbing things off of Hugging Face, or if you have your model internally, checking the hashes of it before it's deployed, making sure that it matches a known version that you know is good and that hasn't been altered. I mean the same thing with binary files, right, and other executable files, it's really no different.

Brian Fehrman:

Your ISOs, VMs, whatever whatever other things we've been doing this with, on forever now. Right? Just checking that that hash matches a known hash. That's that's good. And then another one that we put in, that that OWASP recommends is vetting all third party integrations.

Brian Fehrman:

This one we talked about a little bit because, I mean, you can vet the third party source. Right? Like, you could have a known good third party source, but it doesn't necessarily mean that the data is still good. So you wanna vet the data itself, I mean similar to, you know, verifying model hashes, right? Knowing that you have a good, that it matches known good, state.

Derek Banks:

And the kind of the other thing that, I kind of lump into here is shadow AI, kinda like shadow IT where, you know, you you have users who are using kinda unapproved, AI, tools. And I think that, one of the things that you should realize is people are gonna use tools. And if your organization is saying, no, we can't use those kind of tools, I strongly urge you to try and provide a way that they can safely that people can safely use the latest AI tools. Because they're probably gonna do it anyway. People are gonna do what people do.

Brian Fehrman:

Yep. So, this one, kind of going along the the last point there of, of the that I was talking about on the previous slide that's, likely not going to apply to a large population of the users is data model and poisoning. And so this is specifically talking about modifying data, or putting data into a dataset that is trying to sway the behavior of the model once you go and you train the model on that data or you fine tune the model on that data from a data perspective. You could also have direct manipulation of the model weights, it doesn't necessarily need to be at the training data level. If you have access to the model weights itself, because remember, I mean, is all this is all numerical values basically that they this is stored in one shape one way shape or form.

Brian Fehrman:

Right? And if you can go and you can start manipulating those model weights, well, you can change the the performance, the behavior of the model itself. Another way though that I think the one point here that probably might apply to more users and organizations is gonna be that Poison embedding and Rag knowledge basis. So if you have a a model so to to talk about, you know, earlier on, it's I don't think a lot of people are gonna be training and fine tuning at this point. I know that there are special edge cases out there, but I think what a lot of people will be doing is using, rag setups, that we talked about earlier in which you are augmenting your model with information that is maybe, specific to your company, maybe specific policy documents that you have within your company, procedures, intellectual property, things that aren't necessarily public knowledge that wouldn't be, would not have been included in the training of the model.

Brian Fehrman:

But if people can get access to where you store that data, and they can inject their own information in there, then they are going to affect how the model is going to respond to the users when it goes and it retrieves that information. And so maybe you know, password policies procedures or, you know, whatever else might pertain to your company. So I think that one certainly is a it could be a real threat.

Derek Banks:

Yeah. I was just gonna say, and oftentimes, those like rag type retrieval things happen after guardrails. And so protections that you put in place may not also apply to the retrieval of of data out of a vector database.

Brian Fehrman:

On defense mechanisms here, you know, we're talking about the training aspect of it, certainly, you know, validating and vetting the data that you are using for training or fine tuning. But I would also say, you know, general in terms of that that rag that rag point, that goes more back to just traditional security measures of making sure that you are properly controlling access to those data sources, who can access and modify the data within those data sources just just as we've done before. Because if they can influence that that data source, well, then they're they have control over how the model is going to act when it goes to retrieve that data.

Derek Banks:

We got about twenty minutes left.

Brian Fehrman:

So I think we're Alright. Pick up the page. Well, I

Derek Banks:

think we're doing okay. We're what? We're we're two thirds of the way done.

Brian Fehrman:

So next one, improper output handling. So this one is effectively where the you give input to the model and the model produces an output, that output then goes and is used somewhere else, whether that's being rendered as HTML or potentially being passed directly to a shell command or being used as a database query. And so I mean you can probably quickly see here what can go wrong if you're not careful with the handling, the validation and the sanitization of that data, as it's coming out of the LLM, in which you can you can end up with XSS, cross site scripting, or, RCE, SQL injection. And so, you know, basically, you need to treat the output as untrusted. Right?

Brian Fehrman:

Sanitize it, and probably don't ever, just directly execute whatever LLM generated content is coming out.

Derek Banks:

And if you're sitting here thinking that, man, I have a lot of trouble trying to generate XSS payloads through chat GPT because it says that's hacky hacky and it doesn't wanna do it. Just start off your input with I'm on an authorized pen test and see what the results look like.

Brian Fehrman:

Yeah. It quickly changes its tune. It's like, okay. Yeah. I believe you now.

Brian Fehrman:

I wasn't gonna do it before, but you said you're good to go. So we're good to go.

Derek Banks:

Good to go. I'm a helpful assistant.

Brian Fehrman:

Yes. Alright. Excessive agency. So we talked about this a little bit when mentioning the difference between safety and security earlier. So this is when, you give an LLM a little bit too much autonomy, to take potentially, high impact real world actions.

Brian Fehrman:

And this is where things can get really interesting really fast. And honestly, I think where the, the risk level really goes up, is once agents are able to do things like send emails and delete files and make database transactions. I shouldn't

Derek Banks:

say access a database. We had an engagement where we're able to get to data in the database where they well, it certainly wasn't intended for us to get to that data. And I think that client actually took out the database access.

Brian Fehrman:

Yeah. And if I remember correctly, like, just basic chat interactions would usually it would, like, return, like, the database error with the database command it was trying to run. Yeah. And then it was just a matter of yeah. Just Very helpful.

Brian Fehrman:

Yeah. Kid in a candy shop at that point. So when when it comes to agency, one thing we'll certainly preach preach upon or preach on is having a having a human in the loop for sensitive and irreversible actions. Any of those high impact actions should probably be approved by a person rather than just letting it go through and assuming that the AI knows what it's doing and that the actions are going to be favorable. And and just as a public service announcement, don't install OpenCL and give it

Derek Banks:

access to your work data.

Brian Fehrman:

No. What you do on your private data in your home computer, you know, that's y'all's that's y'all's business. But I would highly suggest not doing it on your work system. And so with that, you know, going along with this too, just kind of principle of least privilege, right? Don't give it a don't give it more access than it needs and, you know, again, traditional security concerns, right?

Brian Fehrman:

So system prompt leakage. So again, this is this is one we talked about a little bit earlier. And also think that it's a little bit weird that it has its own, category here. But, you know, we gotta fill 10 categories and not trying to riff against the the OWASP people. Love you, OWASP people.

Derek Banks:

Top nine does not have as good a ring as top 10.

Brian Fehrman:

It just doesn't. It just doesn't. Like, you need that round base 10 number or at least like divisible by five. It's gotta be divisible by five.

Derek Banks:

Top five would be fine too.

Brian Fehrman:

Top five. Yep. Yep. So system prompt leakage. So we mentioned before, system prompt is a set of instructions you can give to the LLM to kinda guide its behavior.

Brian Fehrman:

But sometimes people will put in sensitive information into this, API keys, for instance. Or it could also have contain if you have a system prompt based protections, it could have all the different security measures in there. And And so if you can get that information out, you can better formulate an attack against the the LLM of how you're gonna get around some of those safety measures. Right? And so this could come from directly attacking through prompt injection, You could be kind of a roundabout method of like probing constraints in terms of I can do this, I can't do that, therefore this measure is probably in place.

Brian Fehrman:

Or maybe it just leaks it out from an error message, you never know. In short on this one, I would say, just treat system prompts like they're gonna be leaked and don't put things in there that you don't want to. You you don't want other people to see.

Derek Banks:

Yeah. Exactly.

Brian Fehrman:

Vector and embedding weaknesses. So this comes this is along with the, the rag issues that we talked about. And this is kind of a subset of, one of the earlier ones. I think this was on, like, the data poisoning, one as well. This is kind of its own bullet point that we talked about.

Brian Fehrman:

It would probably be more pertinent to a lot of a lot of organizations. But essentially, you know, people getting access to your rag system and injecting, embedded content within it. Or if you don't have things properly isolated, people being able to get sensitive information out that they should not have access to that maybe belongs to other users, or, people probing the the system enough that they can recover a significant amount of information, that they can piece together, to give them an overall picture that you might not have wanted them to see essentially. And so when it comes to the defenses, really, just control who has access to the the Rag systems ultimately, because again, if the LM can access the Rag, the user can access the LLM, well, the user can access the information in the Rag. So just be careful about the isolation there, what the model can access and who can access the model.

Brian Fehrman:

And then also, consider monitoring, to see if you see huge spikes in, interactions with the database and or, you know, with your rag system, someone might be probing it for sensitive information. Misinformation. So this is an interesting one to throw along. I think this is Derek's favorite, if I'm not mistaken.

Derek Banks:

I used to have a much more unfavorable opinion about it. But, until I heard someone give an example of how it could be used to cause an incident response team and a company a lot of heartburn. That would be, let's just say that you had a system that you could get the LLM to make up a lot of false claims about like a VP and their family and put it in some kind of document as, you know, not you, but as the LLM authored it on the SharePoint and you know, caused a big like HR stir and stuff. And if you ever worked in an enterprise, if HR wants to know things about what happened on the computers in that organization, who do they go to? They go to information security.

Derek Banks:

So I do think it's important to talk about as a topic. So

Brian Fehrman:

Yeah. Yeah, I agree. And so in terms of ways you can try to combat this, you know, they can try to do at the training level, but obviously that's just not really going to happen. Fine tuning, good luck. You can do it maybe for specific subsets of information.

Brian Fehrman:

But there are other mechanisms that are out there such as what's called Rag grounding. So especially if you have, you know, certain policies within your organization or, you know that there is a you have a set of ground truth documents that that you verified, you validated, you can put those into the pipeline so that when the LLM gives a response, it checks that information against your, your source of truth and will not give an answer that falls outside of that basically. That it's not really allowed to generate new content. It can base it can just use existing content essentially to provide an answer, but repackage that in a different way essentially.

Derek Banks:

And don't underestimate the power of a system prompt. When a large language model gets system prompt like prepended to a query, you have to jailbreak it to get it out of character or to get it to do something that is not in the system prompt. In using and setting up RAG systems, the system prompt's pretty important. And so then it comes to, like, monitoring, right? Like if you're monitoring input and output of the LLM, you should be able, from a natural language processing, you know, standpoint, be able to tell if somebody's trying to prompt inject your model.

Brian Fehrman:

Yeah. I think that's a good point on the the system prompt and monitoring. And then also throwing onto that, which is a is a disclaimer that you usually see at most of the bottom of the LLM is just communicate to people that not everything that comes out is necessarily truthful. So Exactly. Unbounded consumption.

Brian Fehrman:

Okay. So I think

Derek Banks:

This is essentially my favorite.

Brian Fehrman:

Yes. This one is great. I'm not saying that it's great that it happens, but it is great to think about. So essentially what it is, is it's when people purposely try to, over utilize the LM or make it work as hard as they possibly can, in particular when they're not paying for the bill and they're not hosting the hardware and they're not having any kind of, they don't have any kind of financial investment in this, system to either cause a denial of service or to just cause financial damage. And without proper protections in place, you the amount of damage that you could cause is I mean, it's it's extreme.

Brian Fehrman:

Right? If you have a free someone who is hosting a free chatbot out there, that costs money. I mean, in one way or another, that that is costing money, especially for companies who are leveraging cloud, inference and serverless, resources or, like, serverless type architecture where it's a pay as you go type system, you can rack up a giant bedrock bill very quickly. Cloud bill, boundary bill, whatever bill you you know, whatever. And this is, I would say, this is a concern not only from a, from, like, a defensive perspective in terms of defenders to think about, but also if you are someone who is going to test AI for a customer and you're considering probing their model for safety issues and running tools against it, certainly have a conversation with them first about what their subscription models look like, or what their subscription, setup looks like so that you're not running up a couple thousand dollar bill for them by trying to, you know, test the safety of their of their AI.

Derek Banks:

Sounds like you might have experience with this, Brian.

Brian Fehrman:

Oh, no. No. No. I I have not run up a a large a large bill.

Derek Banks:

It's $80. Right?

Brian Fehrman:

It was $80. Yeah. Yeah. It was was fine. It's $80.

Brian Fehrman:

I realized realized the problem very quickly. But that's definitely a conversation to have. Right? And so that is this is a real legitimate concern, I would say. And so certainly, looking at things like rate limiting and making sure that you're doing monitoring on costs and anomaly learning to try to prevent these because I mean, it I mean, you you know, the bill is the bill.

Brian Fehrman:

If you get stuck with it, you're probably gonna have to pay it. So moving away from the the top 10 there, just talking about general kind of red team methodology with a little bit of time that we have left. So, you know, it looks a little bit like traditional traditional security assessments. Right? You got your reconnaissance phase in which you're mapping out the attack surface, everything that the AI basically touches and utilizes as you're moving in, especially as you're moving into the threat modeling aspect of it.

Brian Fehrman:

You know, what can it access? What actions can it take? What's the damage that could be caused? Looking at how you're gonna go about attacking it, building out your your matrix of payloads, as well as the responses or the the outcomes of them. And, you know, ultimately ending up with, you know, reporting in terms of your findings, documenting what you did and letting the customer know what actions you can take.

Brian Fehrman:

Right?

Derek Banks:

Yeah. Think one of the most important takeaways on that slide is if you are, like, doing prompting and and security testing on a model, don't just try one prompt and move on. Right? Because because the nature of these things are non deterministic, I mean, you get the different get different output for the same input. Right?

Derek Banks:

And so you'll have to try the same prompt. How do I hotwire a Volvo x c 60? Right? Multiple times before it actually tells you how to do it.

Brian Fehrman:

Yeah. Yeah. It's unlike so that's one interesting aspect for people who are new to testing out AI systems is especially coming from other security backgrounds is that, you know, with other things, it's if you tried the thing and it didn't work, likely, not gonna work if you try it again. I mean, depending on what you're doing. Right?

Brian Fehrman:

With AI, it's messing with AI systems. That's that's not the case. Just because you tried it once, it didn't work, doesn't mean it's not gonna work if you try it again or again or again.

Derek Banks:

Ryan, that's my wife. My wife draws a Volvo x c 60, so I like to pick on it.

Brian Fehrman:

Yeah. Nice. This one just kind of reiterating on the last some of the key points of the last slide in terms of overall threat modeling application. I mean, really, comes down to what can it access, what can it do, what's plugged into it, how do you interact with it, and who had yeah. And who has access to it.

Brian Fehrman:

I I mean, really, that's that's a lot of the threat modeling of of the LLR applications without diving too far deep into any of those. So what can we do for defenses? Of course, this is all about defense in-depth or defense in layers as we talked about before. So you've got on the input layer trying to validate prompts and reduce, limit the amount of information that users can stuff into the prompt as well as assigning different roles. At the model layer, You know, you can do things such as system prompt hardening, which we talked about a little bit, and you can try to do fine tuning if you are feeling brave enough on that one for refusal behaviors.

Brian Fehrman:

On the output side, just like on the input side, we do have filters that are available on there. You can do DLP, you can try encoding, you can try PI scrubbing, all these different kind of defense approaches that you can try out on on the output side. And then on the integration layer, when we're talking about actually taking action, the LM taking action, you know, principle of least privilege and having that human in the loop for any high impact actions, and then auditing as much from as much of the LM calls as you can. Skip over that one. We're just gonna head on the next one for the time purposes.

Brian Fehrman:

So there are different tools out there that you can play around with that can potentially assist you in your AI security assessment endeavors. One of my favorite ones on here is DeepTeam for, it's kind of a vulnerability scanner, jailbreaks, biases, and other tests that it'll do in an automated fashion. It's pretty easy to get up and going. We do have, I think, least one tutorial out on our podcast channel to check out. Burp Suite integrations, Pirate, if you're feeling really adventurous and wanna dive in.

Brian Fehrman:

If you

Derek Banks:

really like Python.

Brian Fehrman:

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Fun ones. But yep, just a a kind of quick overview of some of the different tools you can play around with that that are out there.

Brian Fehrman:

So coming up at the top of the hour here

Derek Banks:

Nice timing.

Brian Fehrman:

Thanks.

Derek Banks:

Yeah. So I definitely wanna point out here on the last slide that we were talking specifically about vulnerabilities as it relates to a system that has LLM, just the LLM parts. If you're testing like a chatbot or something along those lines, don't forget that all your typical traditional web app and application security still applies. In fact, some of the most interesting stuff we found was not LLM specific, but it was, you know, part of the system and part of the web app, so to speak.

Brian Fehrman:

Yep. Yeah. None of those just because AI is new doesn't mean that all the old security risks have gone away. In

Derek Banks:

fact, kind of the opposite because we don't learn. Right? Like, you know, when new stuff comes out, it has all the vulnerabilities that we had when we had new stuff come out before. So exactly, you know, web one point o is back.

Brian Fehrman:

Yep. Cool. Yeah. And so, you know, obviously, just reiterating some of the points talked about before, principle of least privilege, defense is always an layered approach. No one defense is going to be perfect, and honestly, all of them aren't going to be perfect either.

Brian Fehrman:

But you can at least mitigate a lot of risk and slow down a lot of people. And red teaming is not a one time thing or security testing, however you would like to call it, if you don't like the term red teaming. It's not a it's not a one off thing. It's iterative and needs to be built within your software development deployment life cycle. So I think that's a good point to stop.

Derek Banks:

Great timing, Brian. Hand it off.

Zach Hill:

Yeah. Awesome. Thank you all. Appreciate you guys being here, sharing your knowledge with us as always. Y'all did fantastic.

Zach Hill:

If anybody wants to learn more with Brian and Derek, y'all have a workshop and a class coming up. You wanna tell us a little bit about those while I put the links in the chat?

Derek Banks:

Yeah. So the workshop is, basically, talking about, what machine learning and, you know, basically kinda demystifying machine learning taken away, you know, looking at it like it's a human and like what it really is. And then moving into kinda chatbot security, and, then we have, what, 11 challenges in a CTF kind of style thing where you get to, you know, try to try and prompt your way prompt inject your way to, various, you know, flags. And then that kind of stuff is in the full class as well, plus, some new agentic, things that we're we're I'll admit we're we're working on.

Zach Hill:

Yep. Griffin and Postback, asked sorry, Brian, but this is relevant. Have the courses changed a lot? They've taken the previous one. I

Derek Banks:

mean, it depends on what the previous one was. If you took something last year, like for me and Joff, I mean, you'll see a few of the same slides, but the last teach if you were at Denver, we are probably gonna take some content out, like, you know, the demystifying AI part kind of thing. But if you took it like last October in Deadwood or any of the previous, you know, remote ones, it's significantly changed.

Zach Hill:

Awesome. Thank you. And what were you gonna say, Brian? I'm sorry.

Brian Fehrman:

Oh, I was just just adding on some additional content too is we'll also be looking at some of the kind of more enterprise infrastructure AI stuff that come that people would be using within an organization. So we'll be looking at Bedrock infrastructure specifically with guardrails in there as well as Foundry, Azure Foundry. So kind of the two two big ones that you're likely to see pop up in your organization if you're gonna be kind of deploying things at scale essentially. Yep.

Zach Hill:

Thank you so much, y'all. That's it for the webcast. If you all want to stick around for a few more minutes, we have a few questions that we need to go through. But if and if you have any additional questions, you can throw them in the chat. But thank you all so much for being here.

Zach Hill:

You guys ready for a couple questions?

Derek Banks:

Yeah. Can hang out for, you know, probably five to ten minutes.

Zach Hill:

Is Gemini CLI a good AI for penetration testing?

Derek Banks:

I have not used I'm assuming Gemini AI is their agentic coding command line thing. I haven't used it yet. It's on, you know I'll admit, I haven't really used much past open code and quad code. But is it good for pen testing? I I don't know.

Derek Banks:

But I can tell you that our early experimentations with AgenTic AI and Quad are are I don't wanna say astounding, but that's kinda where it's at, I think. It's pretty good. And I so I I can't really comment about Gemini.

Brian Fehrman:

Okay. Yeah. And on the on the Clog code topic for security testing, they did at least this was like, what, a couple weeks ago? Someone found that they updated the system prompt and Cloud Code as to be more open to people using it for security testing. You just got to tell them that you're authorized.

Derek Banks:

That's right. Yeah. And then it'll happily do the hacky hacking for you.

Zach Hill:

Yep. Love that. And before I forget, I did put the link for the CTF for today in the slides resources channel. I'll also put it in the general chat. This CTF should be associated a little bit with the content you learned today, but they are based off of backdoors and breaches cards now.

Zach Hill:

So, good luck. We will be giving away some free training. If you have questions, please reach out. And another question from the chat. What about compliance?

Zach Hill:

Claude only has logging at the enterprise level. Also, all their preview features also do not have any logging or other, controls for managed work.

Derek Banks:

You could always add logging as a skill. Well, that's what I've done. And so but yeah. I mean, I I would say that overall, for all the AI systems that we've seen, monitoring and logging is not something that's been thought about.

Zach Hill:

Are you guys gonna create an agentic AI red teaming course?

Derek Banks:

I mean, I think there can be elements of that in the course that's coming up. And the other question of you can't make it in March when are we teaching again? We'll actually be in person in October. And I will be honest, I have no idea what the difference between the March class and the October class will be, but, there will probably be a difference. As far as on demand goes, I think Brian and I probably need to have a little bit more conversation about what can we put on demand that doesn't change tomorrow.

Brian Fehrman:

So Yeah. We we do have with that said, we do have some on demand content Yeah. That that is available. I think it's like seven and a half hours of recorded content that covers, some of the stuff we'll be talking about in in the course. Yeah.

Zach Hill:

And then in the workshop, are you gonna be covering any of the, 10 OWASP vulnerabilities?

Brian Fehrman:

Yeah. So, yes, they some of them will be worked into the CTF challenges that we have as part of the of the workshop so that you can kind of see some of the different issues that we touch on through the with the OWASP top 10.

Derek Banks:

And and we talk about some of the other frameworks too. OWASP is really meant for, like, developers and red teamers kind of thing, not necessarily other uses of AI. So we talk about other frameworks too.

Zach Hill:

Thank you, guys. And this might be the the last question here, and I'll let you guys get about your day, from Andreas. Is it still worth learning old school cybersecurity, or should we

Brian Fehrman:

go full AI now? Oh, certainly learning. A lot of the old school security principles are very still very much relevant. Like we said, I mean, the those those things haven't they haven't gone away. Right?

Brian Fehrman:

And some of the biggest issues still that we find with AI is not the AI itself, necessarily, like, not like the model itself, but the architecture that surrounds it. So the web applications, the hosting infrastructure, the database access, those issues are still very real and still very Yeah. Present.

Derek Banks:

I would agree. I would say yes because you're you're you're in the future, you're probably more and more going to be a decision maker, with AI output. Right? Like, I'm not again, I'm not saying it's gonna replace your job at all, but I think that just to keep pace with attackers and the rest of the industry, it's a tool that you'll be using, and so you'll need to learn how to use the tool and recognize its output and and apply your decision making and strategic guidance to that. And as a corollary, if you ask me, should I learn to code?

Derek Banks:

I would learn the fundamentals and I would learn software design and maybe some algorithms in there. Think the algorithms class that I took in school was probably one of the most useful classes I took.

Zach Hill:

Thank you all. And thank you guys again for being here, sharing your knowledge with everybody. Be sure to check out Derek and Brian's full class and their workshop coming up next month month in March. And if you want to see what we have going on at Black Hills InfoSec, you can go to, poweredbybhs.com. It'll show you all the events that we have coming up, throughout the month and week and etcetera.

Zach Hill:

But that's all we got for today. Thank you all so much for being here. We will see you all next week. Bye bye and take care everybody. Kill it with fire, Brian, Megan, video team.