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Why Real-Time Protection Matters for Production AI

Traditional security methods fall short of controlling the unique threats that AI systems face in production. You cannot rely on firewalls and Identity and Access Management (IAM) configurations to keep attackers out and retain control of your systems.

The Evolution of Threats

New methods of attack are emerging all the time, and the rate of appearance of new threats is only increasing. The days of asking ChatGPT to write a poem about a questionable topic or exfiltrating data with politeness are over. Today's attackers are sophisticated and determined, leveraging data poisoning, automated detection of malconfigured RAG pipelines, and phenomenal patience to find issues your engineers have missed.

Classification of Harmful Inputs

Still, most assaults on an AI system start with a simple prompt. Requests which play on model biases, quirks of post-training, or even temporarily-available vulnerabilities in model refusal are commonplace, and impossible to detect without continual monitoring of the attack surface. Detecting these threats effectively requires wide visibility, much like how Cloudflare leverages its high coverage over enterprise web deployments to identify DDoS and botnet activity at scale.

How We Leverage Scale

While many attempts at manipulating deployed AI systems are blunt and barely trying to be concealed, more determined and sophisticated actors can leverage threats almost no system can detect. Data poisoning attacks can be executed over months or even years across thousands of accounts, introducing biases in your models which drift from barely perceptible to a liability risk. Through our broad coverage of customer-facing enterprise deployment of AI, we can catch these attacks in their early stages and filter these harmful inputs before they cause irreparable harm to the reputation of our clients.

Outputs and Constitution

At Telluvian, we believe that the best people to decide how your AI behaves are your developers, not engineers at the big labs . We achieve this by allowing you to submit a Constitution, a written document outlining how you wish for your AI system to behave. If your system is steering away from that constitution, we escalate the situation to you, and if it directly violates it then we stop the request completely for you to intervene.

At Telluvian, we've built our expertise around keeping you safe in an unpredictable and growing threat landscape. By empowering you to specify the limits of your AI application and directly control how it is served to your users, we help you keep your users and your service safe and secure with minimal disruption.