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What is OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications?
OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications (also called OWASP LLM Top 10): A widely referenced list by the Open Worldwide Application Security Project naming the most critical security risks for applications built on large language models, such as prompt injection, sensitive information disclosure and excessive agency. It serves as a checklist for design, review and testing.
OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications: an example
A security review of a company's new RAG chatbot walks through each entry in the list and records what controls address it.
Related terms
More Evals guardrails AI security terms
- Pairwise comparison
- Payload splitting
- Perplexity filter
- Pickle deserialization risk
- PII detection
- PII redaction
- Prompt injection
- Prompt leaking
Where you learn it
OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.