100 Security for AI Apps resources for developers
Securing AI applications requires a shift from traditional perimeter defense to mitigating probabilistic risks such as prompt injection, data leakage through model outputs, and unauthorized API usage. This resource guide provides a curated list of tools and frameworks specifically designed to address the OWASP LLM Top 10 vulnerabilities and secure the infrastructure surrounding large language models.
Prompt Injection & Input Validation
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Rebuff
intermediatehighAn open-source multi-layered self-hosted prompt injection detector that uses heuristics, vector lookups, and LLM-based analysis.
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NeMo Guardrails
advancedhighNVIDIA's toolkit for defining programmable guardrails using Colang to ensure LLM interactions stay within predefined safety boundaries.
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Guardrails AI
beginnerstandardA framework for adding structural, type, and quality validation to LLM outputs using Pydantic-style schemas.
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Lakera Guard
beginnerhighAn enterprise-grade API for real-time protection against prompt injection, jailbreaking, and PII leakage.
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Promptfoo
intermediatestandardA CLI tool and library for testing prompt quality and security by running test cases against multiple models simultaneously.
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Garak
advancedstandardAn LLM vulnerability scanner that probes models for known weaknesses including hallucination, jailbreaks, and data extraction.
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PyRIT
advancedhighMicrosoft's Python Risk Identification Tool for red teaming generative AI systems to identify security and fairness risks.
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LLM-Security-Scanner
beginnerstandardA lightweight tool for scanning prompt templates for common injection patterns before deployment.
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Prompt Armor
intermediatemediumA security proxy layer that sits between your application and the LLM provider to filter malicious payloads.
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Vigil
intermediatemediumA security scanner for LLM prompts that detects prompt injection and jailbreak attempts using a signature-based approach.
Data Privacy & PII Protection
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Microsoft Presidio
intermediatehighAn open-source data protection SDK that provides PII identification and anonymization for text and images.
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LLM Guard
intermediatehighA comprehensive tool for both input and output sanitization, including PII detection, toxicity filtering, and secret detection.
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Private AI
beginnerstandardA high-accuracy PII redaction API that supports over 50 languages and can be deployed on-premise to maintain data residency.
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Skyflow
advancedhighA data privacy vault that allows developers to isolate, protect, and govern sensitive customer data used in LLM workflows.
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LangChain Privacy Filters
beginnerstandardBuilt-in document transformers for LangChain to scrub sensitive data from documents before they are indexed in vector stores.
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Cape Privacy
advancedmediumAn API for encrypted LLM processing that ensures the model provider never sees the raw underlying data.
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IronCore Labs Cloak
advancedstandardTransparent application-layer encryption for data stored in vector databases like Pinecone or Weaviate.
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AWS Bedrock Guardrails
beginnerhighManaged service to filter toxic content and PII from inputs and outputs specifically for models hosted on AWS Bedrock.
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Hugging Face SafeTensors
intermediatestandardA simple, fast, and safe file format for storing tensors that prevents arbitrary code execution during model loading.
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Anonymized RAG
intermediatemediumImplementation pattern using hashing or tokenization for document metadata to prevent LLM reconstruction of user identities.
Infrastructure & Secret Management
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HashiCorp Vault LLM Engine
intermediatehighManage and rotate LLM API keys dynamically to prevent long-lived credential exposure in environment variables.
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AWS KMS Envelope Encryption
advancedstandardEncrypting high-dimensional vectors in databases using unique keys to ensure data at rest is unreadable without specific IAM roles.
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Cloudflare Gateway for AI
beginnerhighAn egress proxy that provides visibility, rate limiting, and security filtering for all outbound LLM API requests.
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Pinecone RBAC
intermediatestandardRole-Based Access Control for vector namespaces to ensure users only query segments of the vector database they are authorized to access.
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LangSmith Audit Logs
beginnerstandardDetailed tracing and logging of all LLM inputs and outputs to provide an audit trail for compliance and security forensics.
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Snyk Code for AI
beginnerstandardStatic analysis tool configured to detect insecure patterns in LLM orchestration code, such as unsanitized prompt templates.
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Tailscale for GPU Clusters
intermediatemediumZero-trust networking to secure communications between application servers and private self-hosted GPU inference nodes.
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Istio Egress Gateways
advancedstandardRestricting LLM application pods to only communicate with verified model provider endpoints (e.g., api.openai.com).
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GitHub Secret Scanning
beginnerhighAutomated detection of leaked OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face tokens within private and public repositories.
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Docker Scout
beginnerstandardVulnerability scanning for container images containing AI runtimes and libraries like PyTorch or TensorFlow.