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Model Armor: Securing AI Deployments
This course explains how to use Model Armor to protect AI applications, specifically large language models (LLMs). The curriculum covers Model Armor's architecture and its role in mitigating threats...
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$900USD
Duration
4 hours
Course Code
GCP-MASAID
Available Formats
Classroom
Overview
Course Description
This course explains how to use Model Armor to protect AI applications, specifically large language models (LLMs).
The curriculum covers Model Armor's architecture and its role in mitigating threats like malicious URLs, prompt injection, jailbreaking, sensitive data leaks, and improper output handling.
Practical skills include defining floor settings, configuring templates, and enabling various detection types. You'll also explore sample audit logs to find details about flagged violations.
Skills Gained
- Explain the purpose of Model Armor in a company’s security portfolio.
- Define the protections that Model Armor applies to all interactions with the LLM.
- Set up the Model Armor API and find flagged violations.
- Identify how Model Armor manages prompts and responses.
Who Can Benefit
Security engineers, AI/ML developers, cloud architects.
Prerequisites
- Working knowledge of APIs
- Working knowledge of Google Cloud CLI
- Working knowledge of cloud security foundational principles
- Familiarity with the Google Cloud console
Course Details
Course Details
Course overview
What’s in it for me?
- Recall the course learning objectives.
Model Armor overview
- Explain the purpose of Model Armor in a company’s security portfolio.
- Identify the subset of top 10 OWASP LLM vulnerabilities that Model Armor addresses.
- Identify Model Armor key concepts and architecture.
- Map Model Armor features to the security risks they mitigate.
Customize Model Armor
- Define the protections that Model Armor applies to all interactions with the LLM.
- Describe floor settings and explain how they work.
- Explain the purpose of a template and how it works with the API.
- Configure the four types of detections in the template.
Use Model Armor
- Set up the Model Armor API and find flagged violations.
- Explain the prerequisites that are required to work with the API.
- Describe how to enable the API.
- Set up logging in the template, explore types of audit logs, and find them in SCC.
- Explain how to find floor setting violations in SCC and resolve them.
Put it all together
- Explain how Model Armor reviews prompts and reports findings based on content safety flags.
- Explain how Model Armor reviews LLM responses and updates them according to template settings.
- Execute various commands for sanitizing user prompts against different security features.
Course conclusion
What did I learn?
- Summarize the course learning objectives.
Schedule
FAQ
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Instructor knew her stuff. Long time in the industry. Course was easy to follow and very informative.
Exit certified was great as it is very in depth and hands on learning which made it very easy to learn this type of work.
Class was easy to sign up for and ExitCertified provided very good communication
I liked the pace of the course. I like that I have more than instance to use the lab.
Overall ExitCertified is a great training provider and the remote learning is as effective as in person.
