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Thembaletu Mbangcolo

Thembaletu Mbangcolo

Writing Safe and secure software using Rust from the beginning, safe software is not an after thought idea

Johannesburg, South Africa

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Security of APIs - AI agents, LLMs, Ethical Hacker, advising small business owners on CyberSec.

Former Real Estate businesses owner for 10 year, Previously sold IT related project at Financial Mail and Businesses Day finance publications

Area of Expertise

  • Consumer Goods & Services
  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Real Estate & Architecture

Topics

  • Linux
  • Rust
  • Python
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • rustlang
  • Rust Community
  • api security

Writing Safe and secure software using Rust

I would like to share a Security of APIs idea of thinking about AI agents, LLMs. I want to encourage Software Devs to think about Security and vulnerabilities when write ✍️ code from the beginning.

In my talk, I would look at serialization/ de-serializarion of data by looking at Two libraries, Python's Pickle library that is used to train LLMs to build AI agents, demonstrate how threat actors can exploit it to poison data and also allow Remote Code Execution.

I will then look at Rust Programming 🦀 library #Serde and speak about how Rust mitigates against exploitation and Remote Code Execution during serialization and de-serialization of data.

AI and API Security using Pickle, a Python library for AI agents, LLMs training data

AI adoption is skyrocketing, this is great for business gains and productivity.However, there's a knowledge gap on Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning LLMs. This gap presents a Safety and Security vulnerabilities for Software development.
In this talk, I shall share code snippets as test case showing how a threat actor can poison LLM training data, execute prompt injection during serialization and de-serialization with Pickle 🥒🥒 to open a possible backdoor for Remote Code Execution of your AI agents.

I will also share some tips for mitigating these vulnerabilities for writing software that secure.

This talk is directed at Team managers and Developers.

Thembaletu Mbangcolo

Writing Safe and secure software using Rust from the beginning, safe software is not an after thought idea

Johannesburg, South Africa

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