Oct 12 Β· Week 2 β€” Secure AI

🧩 LLM Security

Prompt Injection: The Cybersecurity Problem Inside Your AI

Day 12 Β· Oct 12

πŸ›‘οΈ CyberSecurity Month 2026 Β· WAIG Γ— DefenAI

🧩 Prompt Injection

Prompt Injection: The Cybersecurity Problem Inside Your AI

OWASP LLM

Top 10

Injection & leakage

RAG risk

Poison

Untrusted retrieval

Control

Guardrails

Input/output policy

  • β—†Untrusted instructions
  • β—†RAG poisoning
  • β—†Output filtering
  • β—†Segregation
  • β—†WAIG Foundation: AI literacy content for builders.
  • β—†DefenAI Labs: FFAI-style firewall patterns and testing.
  • β—†Suggested comms format today: Explainer.

Your model trusts too much

Add input/output guard on one LLM app

4-part action model

Governance Β· Technology Β· Resilience Β· Incident response

Treat prompts and retrieved content as untrusted input.

Governance

AI usage policies and inventory for LLM Security.

Technology

Secure models, APIs, agents, and data paths.

Resilience

Degrade safely when AI services are abused or unavailable.

Incident response

Include AI abuse cases in severity matrix.

Today's flow

  1. 1

    Understand

    Why LLM Security matters for your organization today.

  2. 2

    Assess

    Map assets, owners, and gaps against today's theme.

  3. 3

    Act

    Red-team one customer-facing LLM flow.

  4. 4

    Share

    Publish learning internally and on social β€” #CyberSecurityMonth2026.

Did you know?

  • πŸ’‘Prompt Injection: The Cybersecurity Problem Inside Your AI
  • πŸ’‘Mission: Treat prompts and retrieved content as untrusted input.
  • πŸ’‘Frameworks to explore: OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS.

Frameworks & standards

OWASP LLM Top 10NIST AI RMFMITRE ATLAS

Organizational checklist (infographic summary)

  • βœ“Red-team one customer-facing LLM flow.
  • βœ“Separate system vs user content.
  • βœ“Share today's infographic with one community audience.
  • βœ“Log one improvement in your risk or incident tracker.

Audience awareness infographic

Eight communities Β· one mission

Tap a card for tailored awareness and today's action β€” built for sharing.

Treat prompts and retrieved content as untrusted input. As an employee, prompt injection: the cybersecurity problem inside your ai affects every inbox, device, and customer record you touch.

Share: Employees: Day 12 β€” LLM Security. #CyberSecurityMonth2026 #ResponsibleAI

One-click publish

Share Day 12 externally

LinkedIn, Medium, Instagram, Facebook, and X β€” captions tailored for this theme (employees).

Select an audience, then use one-click publish to tailor the share caption for that community.

Mission

Treat prompts and retrieved content as untrusted input.

Organizational actions

  • βœ“Red-team one customer-facing LLM flow.
  • βœ“Separate system vs user content.

Partner angles

WAIG: AI literacy content for builders.

DefenAI Labs: FFAI-style firewall patterns and testing.

Suggested format: Explainer

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