AI API Security

AI API Security delivered by SecByte consultants: scoped engagement, manual validation of every reported issue, and a professional report your engineering team can act on.

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One-time engagement

Overview

AI API Security is a scoped, human-led engagement delivered by SecByte consultants within AI Security. We combine automated tooling and AI-assisted analysis for coverage with manual testing for accuracy — every reported issue is validated by a consultant before it reaches your report, so your team never spends time on false positives.

Who needs this

  • Organisations with a compliance, customer or audit requirement
  • Teams shipping changes to systems that handle sensitive data
  • Security leaders who need an independent, evidence-backed view of risk

What we test

  • Prompt injection, jailbreaks and instruction hierarchy
  • Training, retrieval and context data leakage
  • Tool/agent execution boundaries and over-permissioning
  • Output handling, downstream injection and abuse
  • Rate limiting, cost abuse and model availability

Methodology

  1. 1Model, data-flow and tool inventory
  2. 2Threat modelling for the AI surface
  3. 3Adversarial prompt and abuse testing
  4. 4Manual validation of exploitable behaviour
  5. 5Reporting with guardrail recommendations

Deliverables

  • Executive summary for leadership
  • Technical findings report with evidence
  • Severity classification and CVSS scoring
  • Prioritised remediation guidance
  • Remediation debrief call

Typical scope inputs

  • Model endpoints and applications
  • Tool and data-source inventory
  • Test keys with usage limits

Optional add-ons

  • Free retest of remediated findings
  • Executive briefing for leadership or the board
  • Client-safe attestation letter for customers
  • Developer or engineering remediation workshop

Frequently asked questions