LLM Security & Compliance Hub

Trust & risk for EU/enterprise: privacy, PII, prompt injection

This hub provides patterns for observable systems that stay compliant: logging without PII, redaction, retention, and security threats for RAG. For buyers who need data boundaries and auditability.

Common security & compliance pains

👁️Observability without storing prompts—how?
🔐How to redact PII from LLM logs
💉Prompt injection in RAG: mitigation strategies
📤Data exfiltration risk in RAG pipelines
🇪🇺Enterprise/EU compliance for AI logging practices
Threat model

LLM/RAG security threats (prompt injection, exfil)

RAG security: know the threat model before building controls.

1

Prompt injection

Malicious input manipulates model behavior. Instruction override, jailbreak, or context poisoning in RAG.

Mitigation: Input validation, output filtering, sandboxing. Prompt injection mitigation: detect and block suspicious patterns.

2

Data exfiltration

RAG retrieves and surfaces sensitive docs to unauthorized users. Data exfiltration in RAG: retrieval over-fetches, no access control on context.

Mitigation: Access control at retrieval, document-level permissions, audit retrieval by user.

3

PII leakage

Model outputs or logs contain PII. Training data, user input, or context bleeds into responses.

Mitigation: PII redaction at ingestion and output. How to redact PII from LLM logs: pattern-based + allowlists.

4

Model extraction

Adversary queries to extract model weights or training data. Less common for API-based LLMs.

Mitigation: Rate limits, anomaly detection, monitoring for extraction patterns.

📋Logging & observability

Observability without storing prompts

Log what you need for debugging and SLOs—without PII. Patterns for compliance-friendly observability.

Observability without storing prompts

Log metadata: request ID, latency, model, token count, error code. Avoid logging raw prompts and responses. Use hashes or sampling for debugging.

Structured logs, minimal fields

Only log what you need for debugging and SLOs. Define allowlist of safe fields. No free-text from users.

Sampling strategy

Sample a subset for detailed inspection. Retain samples under retention policy. Delete after use.

Trace without content

Distributed tracing with span metadata (timing, service, status). No prompt/response in trace payloads.

🔒Redaction & retention

How to redact PII from LLM logs

PII redaction, data retention policies, access control. Keep data boundaries clear.

PII redaction in LLM logs

Pattern-based: emails, SSN, credit cards, names. Allowlists for known-safe values. Redact at ingestion before storage.

Retention policies

Data retention policies: define max retention per log type. Auto-delete. Audit trails for deletion.

Access control

Field-level and log-level access. Least privilege. Who can see what. Audit access to sensitive logs.

Encryption

Encrypt at rest and in transit. Key management. Separate keys per environment or tenant.

📋Vendor vs in-house

Risk checklist

Different risks for vendor (API) vs in-house (self-hosted). Know what to check.

Vendor (API, hosted)

Risks

  • Data sent to third party
  • Vendor retention and deletion
  • Subprocessors
  • Jurisdiction

Checklist

  • DPA, SOC2, certifications
  • Data processing location
  • Opt-out of training
  • Deletion on request

In-house (self-hosted)

Risks

  • Infra access
  • Model provider terms
  • Internal access controls
  • Incident response

Checklist

  • Access logs
  • Model license compliance
  • Network segmentation
  • Runbooks
🚨Incident response

Runbooks for security

Security incident runbooks. PII breach response. Prompt injection response. Auditability.

Security incident runbook

Define: detection, containment, eradication, recovery. Who is on-call. Escalation path. Communication plan.

PII breach response

If PII leaks: contain, assess scope, notify (per regulation), document. Have playbook before incident.

Prompt injection response

If injection succeeds: block pattern, rollback if needed, add detection. Postmortem and update guardrails.

Auditability

Log access to logs. Who queried what, when. Audit trail for compliance and forensics.

📊Compliance-friendly eval

Evaluation datasets that respect data boundaries

Eval without PII. Controlled environment. Versioned and auditable. Security test cases.

No PII in eval sets

Compliance-friendly evaluation datasets: synthetic or anonymized. No real user data in test suites.

Controlled environment

Eval runs in isolated env. No production data. Clear data boundary between eval and prod.

Versioned, auditable

Eval set versioned. Know what was tested when. Reproducible for audits.

Security test cases

Include prompt injection, PII leakage, policy violation cases in eval. Measure security metrics.

Enterprise & EU

For EU and enterprise buyers: focus on data boundaries, auditability, and compliance-friendly logging practices. Consult legal for jurisdiction-specific requirements.

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