Generative AI Security

Introduction

In the manufacturing industry, Generative AI applications using LLMs can play a pivotal role in enhancing production efficiency by analyzing real-time data from machines and sensors to optimize processes.

These models can predict potential equipment failures by processing maintenance logs and sensor data, allowing manufacturers to implement predictive maintenance strategies that minimize downtime and reduce repair costs.

Quality control is another area where Generative AI applications can make a significant impact; by processing data from cameras and sensors on the production line, they can identify defects and ensure that only high-quality products reach the market.

Additionally, Generative AI applications can aid in supply chain management by forecasting demand and interpreting market trends, ensuring that production aligns with consumer needs.

This level of insight allows manufacturers to avoid overproduction and reduce waste, leading to more sustainable operations.

Generative AI applications can also support the development of new products by analyzing customer feedback and market research, guiding innovation efforts.

As manufacturing becomes increasingly data-driven, Generative AI applications offer the ability to optimize every stage of the production process.

Generative AI applications can enhance demand forecasting by analyzing historical consumption data, weather patterns, and market dynamics, enabling more accurate predictions and efficient energy distribution.

These models can also improve customer service by handling inquiries, providing real-time billing information, and offering personalized energy-saving tips through AI-powered virtual assistants.

Overall, Generative AI application provide manufacturing industry companies with the tools to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction.

Business Use case

Operation Insights

Automated Reports generation for Operation data analysis

Business Benefits

• Reduction of manual effort
• Ease of use-conversational
• Accurate
• Precise reports
• Enable productivity
• Data science citizens across Organization can use Operation data
• Advanced Decision making

User Benefits

• Using Natural language instead Programming Language.

Main Components of  Generative AI Application Workflow

Automated Reports generation for Operation data analysis

User query

Transforming a natural language prompt into executable

• AWS lambda function
• Azure functions
• Python code
• Kubernetes job

Analytics Application

• SQL generation for data retrieval
• Spark  Query, Flink, Beam etc OR
• AWS EMR
• Azure HD
• Google Dataflow

Interactive Response Context

• Multiple questions and answers in a Session
• Session
• Dialogs
• Session Context
• Active Dialog
• Dialog Context
• Form
• Prompt
• Filled
• Match | NoMatch | Timeout
• NLP Grammar

Dashboard Insights Q&A App

Datasets

• Operation data from Field systems
• Data sources from Sub-Systems

Users

• Data science citizens for analysis

Foundation Model selection

• Anthropic Claude 3 models
• zero-shot and few-shot prompting
• Model selection, Evaluation and cost-performance
• Design prompt for each component

Test responses

• Conversational, Accurate, and Precise

Question rewriter

•  LLM model invoke for reformulating user queries to better align with the  document space
• improve the accuracy and relevance of the information retrieved

API service

• Interface APIs for multi-modal front-end app
  

Python code generator

• LLM code generation for downstream analytics and report generation

SQL generator

• Text to SQL and Context injection with RAG for Operation Database

Data-to-text generator

• Data-to-text Pipeline

Block diagram

Customer success Agent Automation

Operation Insights use case Generative AI application

Alert AI Security guardrails

• Easy to deploy and manage Generative AI application security integration
• Protection for Generative AI attack vector and vulnerabilities
• Intelligence loss prevention
• Domain-specific security guardrails
• Eliminates Security blind spots of Gen AI Application for InfoSec team

Generative AI in Business Applicaiotns introducing a host of new Attack vectors and threats that escape traditional firewalls.

“The risks are of High stakes..”

“Unguarded would lead to Major fallouts…”

Security risks using Generative AI in Business application

Data Privacy and Security

Sensitive Data Exposure

• Generative AI applications in Business using LLMs can inadvertently reveal sensitive information
• LLM is trained on proprietary or customer data augmentation, there’s a risk of that information being exposed

Data Breaches

Generative AI applications in Business must have protection,  if  an LLM’s underlying data infrastructure is compromised, attackers gain access to confidential financial data.

Copyright and Legal information

• Generative AI applications in Business using Large Language Models (LLMs) must be designed to rspect copyright laws by avoiding the unauthorized use of copyrighted text during training and deployment, ensuring that all content generated adheres to legal and ethical standards.

Sensitive content exposures

• Generative AI applications in Business using LLMs must be carefully managed to prevent the generation or dissemination of sensitive or harmful content, safeguarding user interactions and upholding privacy and security protocols.

Integrity of AI application

• Maintaining the integrity of Generative AI applications in Business using LLMs involves implementing rigorous security measures and validation processes to protect the system from tampering and ensure reliable and unbiased outputs.

Tokenizer Manipulation Attacks

• Tokenizer manipulation attacks in Generative AI applications in Business prone to exploit and vulnerabilities in text processing, potentially causing incorrect or malicious outputs, necessitating robust defenses and regular updates to counteract such risks.

Algorithmic Bias

• Generative AI applications in Business using LLMs can perpetuate and even amplify biases present in their training data, leading to unfair treatment of certain groups of customers.
• This is particularly concerning in credit scoring, loan approvals, and other financial decisions.

Discrimination

• Unchecked biases can result in discriminatory practices, which can lead to regulatory and reputational risks for financial institutions.

Manipulation

• Spills, leaks, contaminations during training, feedback loop, retraining, inference time attacks

Phishing and Social Engineering

• Generative AI applications in Business can be used to generate highly convincing phishing emails or messages, making it easier for attackers to deceive employees or customers

Fraudulent Transactions

• Generative AI applications in Business using  Advanced LLMs could be used to manipulate transaction data or create false documentation, making fraud detection more challenging

Operational Risks

Model Inaccuracy

• Inaccurate predictions or decisions made by LLMs can lead to financial losses.
• For example, incorrect risk assessments or credit evaluations can impact the financial health of an institution.

Overreliance on Automation without survilliance

• Unguarded dependence on LLMs for critical financial decisions without adequate human oversight can result in significant operational risks.

Adversarial Attacks

Adversarial Inputs

• Generative AI applications in Business can be subjected to adversarial inputs. Malicious actors can craft inputs designed to confuse or mislead LLMs, potentially leading to incorrect outputs or actions that can be exploited.

Model Poisoning

• Attackers can manipulate the training data or the model itself to introduce vulnerabilities or backdoors.

Attack cases

• Exfiltration via Inference API
• Exfiltration Cyber means
• LLM Meta Prompt extraction
• LLM Data leakage
• Craft Adversarial Data
• Denial of ML service
• Spamming with Chaff Data
• Erode ML Model integrity
• Prompt injection
• Plugin Compromise
• Jailbreak

• Backdoor ML Model
• Poision training data
• Inference API Access
• ML supply chain compromise
• Sensitive Information Disclosure
• Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
• Denial of Service
• Insecured Output Handling
• Insecure API/plugin/Agent
• Excessive API/plugin/Agent Permissions

Regulatory Compliance

Non-Compliance with Regulations

• Financial institutions using Generative AI applications in Business must comply with various regulations related to data privacy, fairness, and transparency.
• Generative AI applications in Business must be designed and implemented in ways that meet these regulatory requirements.

Audit and Explainability

• Ensuring that Generative AI applications in Business  using LLMs’ decisions can be audited and explained is crucial for regulatory compliance. Lack of transparency can pose significant challenges.

Alert AI  provides end-to-end, interoperable, easy to deploy and manage security integration to address security and risks in Generative AI & AI applications.

Alert AI  help Organizations to Enhance, Optimize, Manage security of Generative AI applications in Business workflows.

About Alert AI

• Easy to deploy and manage Generative AI application security integration
• Protection for Generative AI attack vector and vulnerabilities
• Intelligence loss prevention
• Domain-specific security guardrails
• Eliminates Security blind spots of Gen AI Application for InfoSec team
• Seamless integration with Gen AI  service platforms AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, NVidia DGX, Google Vertex AI.  Industry leading Foundation models
• AWS Bedrock, Azure Gen AI, Nvidia DGX, Google
• and Industry leading Foundation Models AWS Amazon Titan, Anthropic Claude,  Nvidia Nemotron, Cohere Command, Google Gemini, IBM Granite,Microsoft Phi, Mistral AI, OpenAI GPT-4

Coverage and Features

• Alerts and Threat detection in AI footprint
• LLM & Model Vulnerabilities Alerts
• Adversarial ML  Alerts
• Prompt, response security and Usage Alerts
• Sensitive content detection Alerts
• Privacy, Copyright and Legal Alerts
• AI application Integrity Threats Detection
• Training, Evaluation, Inference Alerts
• AI visibility, Tracking & Lineage Analysis Alerts
• Pipeline analytics Alerts
• Feedback loop
• AI Forensics
• Compliance Reports
• Domain specific LLM security guardrails

Generative AI security guardrails

Danger, warning,  caution,  notices, recommendations

Enhance, Optimize, Manage security of generative AI applications using Alert AI services.

At ALERT AI, We are developing integrations and models to secure Generative AI & AI workflows in Business applications, and domain specific security guardrails. With over 100+ integrations and thousands of  detections,  the easy to deploy and manage security platform seamlessly integrates AI workflows across Business applications and environments.

The New Smoke Screen, in the Organization and AI Security Posture

Generative AI introduce a host of new Attack vectors and threats escape current firewalls.

Security solutions like Alert AI can help with current pain point of Breaking the glass ceiling, bridging link between

MLops  and  Information Security operations teams. Having right tools in hands …

Information security  engineers and teams can enforce right Security Posture for AI development across the Organizations  and see through that smoke screen early-on, spot issues, before production.

Enhance, Optimize, Manage security of Generative AI applications using Alert AI  security integration.

Alert AI seamlessly integrates with Generative AI platform of your choice.

Alert AI enables end-to-end security and privacy, intelligence security, detects vulnerabilities, application integrity risks with domain-specific security guardrails for Generative AI applications in Business workflows.

Develop Automated report generation of Operation insights using

• Generative AI managed services like Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Nvidia DGX, Vertex AI  to experiment and evaluate industry leading FMs.
• Customization with data, fine-tuning and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and agents that execute tasks using organizations data sources.

Security Optimization using

• Alert AI integration.
• Enhance, Optimize, Manage Generative AI application security using Alert AI