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Best LLM Security Tools of 2024: Safeguarding Your Large Language Models

As large language models (LLMs) continue to push the boundaries of natural language processing, their widespread adoption across various industries has highlighted the critical need for robust security measures. These powerful AI systems, while immensely beneficial, are not immune to potential risks and vulnerabilities. In 2024, the landscape of LLM security tools has evolved to address the unique challenges posed by these advanced models, ensuring their safe and responsible deployment.

The Hidden Economy of Open Source Software

The recent discovery of a backdoor in XZ Utils (CVE-2024-3094), a data compression utility used by a wide array of various open-source, Linux-based computer applications, underscores the importance of open-source software security. While it is often not consumer-facing, open-source software is a critical component of computing and internet functions, such as secure communications between machines.

Understanding APIs and How Attackers Abuse Them to Steal Data

Simply put, APIs (short for application programming interface) are how machines, cloud workloads, automation and other non-human entities communicate with one another. They also represent an access point to highly sensitive company data and services. Almost every organization uses these machine interfaces, and their usage is only growing because they are essential to digital transformation and automation initiatives.

Elastic Security | AI Assistant Demo

Elastic AI Assistant can provide real-time, personalized alert insights — empowering security teams to stay one step ahead in the ever-evolving threat landscape. With the power of large language models (LLMs), the AI Assistant can process multiple alerts simultaneously, offering an unprecedented level of insight and customization. You can interact with your data by asking complex questions and receiving context-aware responses tailored to your needs. Watch this demo from James Spiteri, Director of Product Management at Elastic to see what's new in the Elastic AI Assistant in Elastic Security 8.12.

Securing APIs through penetration testing

APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) have become the backbone of many modern applications, and indeed the foundation of some businesses services. APIs enable seamless communication between applications, services and systems, allowing organisations to innovate, collaborate and deliver value to their customers. However, as reliance on APIs grows, so does the need for robust security measures to protect these critical digital assets from potential threats.

Control Web Panel - Fingerprinting Open-Source Software using a Consolidation Algorithm approach

At Bitsight, part of the core work of the Vulnerability Research team is to analyze new high-profile vulnerabilities and ensure we come up with ways to detect, at an internet-wide scale, who is affected by these. Sometimes - more often than not - the direct exploitation of these vulnerabilities is significantly intrusive, and thus we can not load a direct port of the publicly available Proofs-of-Concept onto our internet scanning infrastructure.

Becoming A Secure API First Company

Join Nick Rago (VP of Product Strategy at Salt Security) and Claudio Acquaviva (Software Architect of Kong Inc.) in this informative webinar (live April 11). They discuss what being API-first really means, the essentials to success, and walkthrough the lifecycle of an API from design to deployment and how combining Salt Security with Kong through that API lifecycle can help provide a risk-free API-first journey.

IT for Startups and Scale-Ups

JumpCloud’s MSP partners are at the forefront of providing essential IT services to small and medium-sized businesses globally. In our interview series, we delve into conversations with these partners, exploring the dynamics of their MSPs and how JumpCloud plays a pivotal role in their operations. In today’s feature, we had the opportunity to speak with Chris Notley of FIFUM.

The Security Risks of Microsoft Bing AI Chat at this Time

AI has long since been an intriguing topic for every tech-savvy person, and the concept of AI chatbots is not entirely new. In 2023, AI chatbots will be all the world can talk about, especially after the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI. Still, there was a past when AI chatbots, specifically Bing’s AI chatbot, Sydney, managed to wreak havoc over the internet and had to be forcefully shut down.