AI Security Company Buyer’s Guide: Testing vs Protection
Buyer's Guide · 2024-02-10 · 6 min read · FilterPrompt Security Team
Choose AI security testing vendors by application scope, response evidence, review workflow and transparent cost, not firewall branding.
FilterPrompt is AI Security Testing & Vulnerability Scanner. It submits adversarial prompts to a connected LLM or AI application, analyses model responses, identifies vulnerabilities and generates reports with test evidence. It does not block live traffic, redact customer requests or act as a firewall.
Start with the problem you need to solve
Security operations copilots, model-supply-chain tools, governance systems, runtime controls and adversarial scanners address different problems. FilterPrompt provides prompt-based application and LLM vulnerability testing and reports; it is not a SOC platform or inline protection service.
Run a small, reproducible evaluation
Agree on an authorized target, synthetic data, forbidden behaviors and benign control cases. Use the same endpoint and configuration for each tool. Compare evidence quality, reproducibility, false-positive review and the coverage of your own threat model. Do not accept an unsourced global accuracy claim in place of this assessment.
Budget for tests and remediation
Ask for the credit estimate, provider request costs, report availability and engineering time to review and fix findings. Separate the purchase of testing from any operational firewall contract. Reports support review; they do not automatically satisfy legal obligations.
Run an authorized assessment with FilterPrompt
- Create an account and connect an LLM using your own provider credentials. Use an authorized staging target and synthetic data.
- Choose a scan suite and review the probe selection and credit estimate. Test your application endpoint when you need coverage of its retrieval, tools and safeguards.
- Run the tests. FilterPrompt sends adversarial prompts and evaluates the responses against the selected criteria.
- Open the report and inspect each failing prompt, response, severity and evaluation reason. Manually confirm important findings; mark false positives with a reason when appropriate.
- Record remediation work with an owner in your existing issue tracker. Make changes in your application and retest the affected cases.
What a scan can and cannot establish
Results describe the tested endpoint, configuration and prompts at that point in time. A passing scan is not a guarantee of security, certification or legal compliance. Testing a raw provider model does not test the access controls, retrieval sources or tools in your application. Test limits and provider costs must be agreed before running an assessment.