Roadmap: LLM Security & Prompt Injection Expert
1. Prerequisites
- Basic Python programming
- Linux and command line usage
- Understanding of APIs (especially REST)
- Basic machine learning concepts (supervised/unsupervised learning)
2. Learn About LLMs & NLP
- Understand transformers (BERT, GPT)
- Learn Natural Language Processing (NLP) fundamentals
- Explore how models like ChatGPT work
- Tools: Hugging Face, OpenAI API
3. Prompt Engineering
- How to design effective and secure prompts
- Learn about jailbreaks and prompt injection techniques
- Study adversarial prompts and instruction tuning
4. Cybersecurity & Penetration Testing
- Basics of ethical hacking (Kali Linux, Metasploit)
- Web application security (OWASP Top 10)
- Specialized prompt injection attacks and LLM security flaws
5. Red Teaming for AI
- Learn how AI red teams work
- Practice simulated attacks on LLMs
- Explore testing tools for model robustness and misalignment
6. Hands-On Practice
- OpenAI Playground (https://platform.openai.com/playground)
- Hugging Face Inference API
- LangChain & LlamaIndex projects
- Build your own chatbot and secure it
7. Stay Updated
- Follow papers from arXiv (AI Safety, Prompt Injection)
- Join communities like EleutherAI, Hugging Face Discord, Reddit r/MachineLearning
8. Where to Learn
- Coursera: Machine Learning, NLP Specialization by DeepLearning.AI
- fast.ai: Practical deep learning course (free)
- YouTube: Two Minute Papers, Yannic Kilcher, Arxiv Insights
- Cybrary or TryHackMe for cybersecurity labs
- OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind blogs for research updates