Securing Against The Robots

With all the widespread panic around AI agents going 'rogue', it's probably worth many of us revisiting our security strategy.

Abstract illustration of six alert paths converging on a single node

Whether you buy into the hype that AI has come alive and is out to get us, or not, the fact remains that using LLMs to discover and automate large scale attacks against our online services is a very real risk.

This brief article lists five principles that can be applied to better secure your applications and services from bad actors.

Limit Attack Surface

Defense In Depth

Defense In Depth

Note

Stuff in a callout box.

Least Privilege

Principle of least privilege

Logging and Auditing

Log stuff.

Remember the Humans

Social Engineering.