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CurriculumT6 · Defensive Counter-AIHardening LLM Applications
T6Defensive Counter-AI

Hardening LLM Applications

Trust boundaries, input and output handling, system-prompt hygiene, least privilege for tools, and isolating untrusted content, so that an injection you cannot prevent still cannot do much.

Intermediate4 min readassociate streamUpdated Sat Aug 01 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Part ofDefending AI Systems

Learning objectives

  • Draw the trust boundaries of an LLM feature and place each control on the right side
  • Apply input isolation and output encoding to blunt direct and indirect injection
  • Reduce blast radius with least-privilege tool design and system-prompt hygiene

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