Prompt Audit and Security: Engineering Defenses for LLM-Powered Systems
A practical engineering guide to securing LLM features: prompt injection defenses, audit logging, eval-driven red teaming, and the governance patterns teams need before launch.
A practical engineering guide to securing LLM features: prompt injection defenses, audit logging, eval-driven red teaming, and the governance patterns teams need before launch.
Introduction The AI landscape of 2026 is no longer dominated solely by large language models (LLMs) that generate text. While LLMs remain the foundational “brain” of many applications, the industry has moved toward action‑oriented agentic workflows—systems that combine language understanding with concrete tool usage, decision‑making, and execution in real environments. These workflows enable AI to act rather than merely talk: they can schedule meetings, retrieve and transform data, trigger cloud functions, and even coordinate multiple autonomous agents to solve complex, multi‑step problems. In this article we will: ...
Introduction When the term generative AI entered the mainstream in 2022, most people imagined chatbots that could write essays, create artwork, or compose music. The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) like GPT‑4 and diffusion models such as Stable Diffusion has indeed reshaped how we produce content. Yet, by early 2026 a new consensus is emerging: the next wave of AI will be less about “generating” and more about integrating, orchestrating, and automating intelligence across diverse modalities, domains, and hardware environments. ...