Section 100 · Chapter 13, AI Security and Guardrails
OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
The OWASP LLM Top 10 is useful when security risks need to become concrete eval cases, release gates, traces, and mitigations.
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What to do
- Treat this as a testing-oriented map, not as a replacement for the official OWASP project.
- Treat the list as more than a compliance badge: it is a backlog of adversarial evals.
- Test direct prompts and indirect instructions hidden in web pages, documents, tickets, emails, comments, tool results, and retrieved context.
- Test whether secrets, private user data, internal policies, hidden context, credentials, and training-data artifacts leak through answers, tool calls, logs, or citations.
- Test model, dataset, plugin, package, prompt, eval, and tool provenance.
Evidence to preserve
- Preserve the inputs, versions, configurations, raw outcomes, and results for release gate, trace, OWASP, owasp top 10 llm applications needed to reproduce work on OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications.
- Report results for release gate, trace, OWASP, owasp top 10 llm applications by relevant slice, separate blocker failures from averages, state uncertainty and blind spots, and connect the result to a release decision.
Expert note
Map each OWASP category to assets, attackers, trust boundaries, mitigations, eval cases, traces, monitors, and owners. Use layered controls: least privilege, scoped tools, output encoding, retrieval access checks, prompt-injection detection, secret scanning, sandboxing, rate limits, cost limits, human approval, and rollback.
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Jason Arbon. "OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications." Testing AI Knowledge Edition, section 100.
https://jarbon.ai/testing-ai/knowledge/ch100-owasp-top-10-llm-applications.html