WeAreDevelopers Logo WeAreDevelopers
Sign in
For You LIVE
World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 10, 2026 • Session details

Hack Me If You Can: Designing Unbreakable LLM Guardrails

Cansu Kavili Örnek

System prompts will not stop prompt injection. Stop wasting costly GPU cycles on malicious requests. Build unbreakable GenAI guardrails using a layered defense architecture.

Pause
Mute Enter Fullscreen
#1 about 3 min

Why system prompts fail against LLM jailbreak attempts

Persistent threat actors can easily bypass basic system instructions to exploit generative language models.

#2 about 4 min

Security and cost implications of unguarded language models

Unrestricted models process out-of-domain requests that leak sensitive data and waste expensive compute resources.

#3 about 2 min

Architectural overview of the guardrails intercept pattern

Intercepting model traffic with a specialized orchestration layer prevents unauthorized interactions without altering the underlying model.

#4 about 6 min

Interactive demonstration of intercepting unauthorized model prompts

A targeted demonstration shows how conditional rules block out-of-domain questions and language-switching bypass techniques.

#5 about 4 min

Implementing regex, classifiers, and LLM-as-a-judge guardrails

Teams construct layered defenses by mixing cheap regex rules with lightweight structural classifiers and analytical evaluation models.

#6 about 5 min

Deploying open-source guardrails and continuous evaluation tools

Integrating orchestration tools and testing hubs secures chat completion endpoints against continuous red teaming attacks.

#7 about 3 min

Scaling modular AI guardrails across multiple enterprise teams

Centralized platform teams configure baseline security protocols while authorizing product groups to deploy domain-specific compliance rules.

#8 about 3 min

Tracking the enterprise maturity journey for AI defenses

Maturing AI operations involve transitioning from raw endpoints to an optimized service that balances latency constraints and application safety.

#9 about 5 min

Handling data access, custom classifiers, and continuous evaluation

Training lightweight custom classifiers on synthetic data provides affordable security checks before scaling into robust evaluation benchmarks.

Matching moments

2:15 min

Establishing guardrails and infrastructure for AI models

Alexandre Guenoun Alexandre Guenoun +3 · World Congress 2026 Europe

2:43 min

Setting effective guardrails for enterprise agentic AI adoption

Julia Kordick Julia Kordick · Coffee With Developers

2:13 min

Identifying and hardening against generative AI risks

Rebekka Weiss Rebekka Weiss +1 · World Congress 2025

1:20 min

Utilizing industry threat models for AI security

Balázs Kiss · World Congress 2023

4:15 min

Security integration and AI skepticism in developer tooling

Chris Heilmann +2 · LIVE

4:56 min

Q&A on platform discovery, security, and prompt injection

Rishabh Budhiraja Rishabh Budhiraja +1 · World Congress 2026 Europe

More from World Congress 2026 Europe

Building the Nervous System of AI - Michael Kagan (NVIDIA) thumbnail
29:17
3 months ago

Building the Nervous System of AI - Michael Kagan (NVIDIA)

Michael Kagan, Sead Ahmetović

Five Things in Tech that Matter Now - WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026 Closing Keynote thumbnail
19:41
3 months ago

Five Things in Tech that Matter Now - WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026 Closing Keynote

Christian Heilmann

The Sound of Your Secrets: Teaching Your Model to Spy, So You Can Learn to Defend thumbnail
32:06
3 months ago

The Sound of Your Secrets: Teaching Your Model to Spy, So You Can Learn to Defend

David vonThenen

Super scaling for the Super Bowl: How to survive 30 million users hitting your backend in 30 minutes thumbnail
35:13
3 months ago

Super scaling for the Super Bowl: How to survive 30 million users hitting your backend in 30 minutes

Irina Branovic

Running Secure Life Science Research at Scale using Hybrid GPU HPC and Kubernetes 🧬 thumbnail
24:23
3 months ago

Running Secure Life Science Research at Scale using Hybrid GPU HPC and Kubernetes 🧬

Jeremy Murray

Angstfreude - AI and Corporate Culture - The Thrill and the Threat thumbnail
30:26
3 months ago

Angstfreude - AI and Corporate Culture - The Thrill and the Threat

Axel Ebert, Karin Krobath

Upcoming sessions on this topic

Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 25, 2026 · 09:00–09:30

Stage 6

Red Teaming Your LLM App -- A Hands-On Threat Model You Can Reuse

Saloni Garg

Senior ML Engineer at Adobe

Saloni Garg
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 25, 2026 · 16:50–17:20

Stage 5

The Things Your AI Isn't Telling You

Desmond Lamptey

Lead Software Engineer at Capital One

Desmond Lamptey
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 25, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Stage 6

Codifying Trade-offs: Security, Cost, and Compliance as Agent Guardrails

Suzanne Daniels

Chief Developer Advisor at Microsoft

Suzanne Daniels
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 14:50–15:20

Stage 1

The Era of Machine-Driven Defense is Here: Headless Security

Loris Degioanni

Founder & CTO of Sysdig

Loris Degioanni
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 17:30–18:00

Stage 5

Securing AI Agent Infrastructure: Identity, Attestation, and Trust at Scale

Abdel Fane

Founder of OpenA2A

Abdel Fane
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 16:50–17:20

Stage 6

Who Tests the AI? Building Trustworthy AI Systems at Enterprise Scale

Him Raj Singh

Manager, Software Engineer at PayPal

Him Raj Singh

Related videos

Beyond the Hype: Building Trustworthy and Reliable LLM Applications with Guardrails thumbnail
29:00
World Congress 2025 • about 1 year ago

Beyond the Hype: Building Trustworthy and Reliable LLM Applications with Guardrails

Alex Soto

Prompt Injection, Poisoning & More: The Dark Side of LLMs thumbnail
23:24
World Congress 2025 • about 1 year ago

Prompt Injection, Poisoning & More: The Dark Side of LLMs

Keno Dreßel

Manipulating The Machine: Prompt Injections And Counter Measures thumbnail
27:10
World Congress 2024 • about 2 years ago

Manipulating The Machine: Prompt Injections And Counter Measures

Georg

GenAI Security: Navigating the Unseen Iceberg thumbnail
24:33
World Congress 2025 • 11 months ago

GenAI Security: Navigating the Unseen Iceberg

Maish Saidel-Keesing

The AI Security Survival Guide: Practical Advice for Stressed-Out Developers thumbnail
30:36
World Congress 2024 • about 2 years ago

The AI Security Survival Guide: Practical Advice for Stressed-Out Developers

Mackenzie

Make it simple, using generative AI to accelerate learning thumbnail
26:54
World Congress 2024 • about 2 years ago

Make it simple, using generative AI to accelerate learning

Duan Lightfoot

Related articles

From learning to earning

Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.