March 4, 2024 at 08:41PM
Cloudflare introduces “Firewall for AI,” offering Advanced Rate Limiting to prevent DDoS attacks and Sensitive Data Detection to protect against data leaks. The feature also allows customization of information disclosure, with plans to include prompt validation and offensive topic blocking. It applies to both public and private language models proxied through Cloudflare.
From the meeting notes, I’ve gathered the following important points:
1. Cloudflare has introduced a new service called “Firewall for AI,” offering Advanced Rate Limiting and Sensitive Data Detection capabilities for its Application Security Advanced enterprise customers. These features are designed to protect applications using large language models (LLMs).
2. Advanced Rate Limiting enables customers to create policies setting a maximum rate of requests to prevent DDoS attacks and similar situations that could overwhelm LLMs.
3. Sensitive Data Detection prevents LLMs from leaking confidential data and allows for the scanning of financial information and secrets in responses to queries.
4. In the future, Cloudflare plans to test a prompt validation feature to prevent prompt injection attacks, which will analyze and rate prompts for potential attack risks.
5. Customers can find these features in the Cloudflare dashboard’s WAF section, and the Firewall for AI can be deployed in front of any LLM, whether hosted on Cloudflare Workers AI or on other platforms.
6. There’s a focus on AI security due to the emergence of LLM missteps and security issues, with developers adopting a Defensive AI framework and tech giants expanding bug bounty programs to include AI products and LLM attacks.
Let me know if you need any further details or specific action items from these meeting notes!