Pangea expands AI security offerings with AI Guard and Prompt Guard

Security guardrails for artificial intelligence applications startup Pangea Cyber Corp. today announced the general availability of two new services that help secure AI by defending against threats such as prompt injection and sensitive information disclosure.

The first new service available, AI Guard, prevents sensitive data leakage and blocks malicious and unwanted content such as swearing, self-harm and violence. The service uses more than a dozen different detection technologies to inspect and filter AI interactions, including more than 50 types of confidential and personally identifiable information.

AI Guard also pulls threat intelligence from partners including CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., DomainTools LLC and ReversingLabs Corp. to provide millions of threat intelligence data points to scan files, IP addresses and domains. The system can redact, block or disarm offending content and offers an encryption feature that protects data while maintaining its data structure and schema without breaking database formats.

The second new offering, Prompt Guard, analyzes user and system prompts to block jailbreak attempts and organizational limit violations.

The service offers protection by using a defense-in-depth approach that detects prompt injection attacks through heuristics, classifiers and custom-trained large language models. Combined, Pangea claims, the service reliably detects attack techniques such as token smuggling, alternate language attacks and indirect prompt injection with over 99% efficacy.

“As companies race to build and deploy AI apps via RAG and agentic frameworks, integrating large language models with users and sensitive data introduces substantial security risks,” said founder and Chief Executive Oliver Friedrichs. “New attacks surface daily, requiring countermeasures to be rolled out equally fast.”

In addition to the general availability of AI Guard and Prompt Guard, Pangea also today announced the launch of  ‘The Great AI Escape’ Virtual Escape Room Challenge, an online competition that features virtual escape rooms where players must cajole an AI room supervisor to reveal a series of passcodes using prompt engineering techniques to evade controls placed in each room. The first escape room will “unlock” on March 3.

The online challenge includes three AI-themed escape rooms, each increasing in difficulty and packed with security challenges. Players compete for a share of the $10,000 prize pool, with rewards going to the top scorer in each room who successfully escapes.

Pangea is a venture capital-funded startup that has raised $52 million over two rounds, including $25 million in October 2022. Investors in the company include Ballistic Ventures, GV, SYN Ventures, Decibel Partners and Okta Inc.

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