How Amazon red-teamed Alexa+ to keep your kids from ordering 50 pizzas
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Feed Name: The Register (Security)
Amazon CISO Amy Herzog describes how security engineers and red teams were embedded from the outset of Alexa+, an LLM-powered assistant, to anticipate failure modes and build guardrails against risks like prompt injection, non-deterministic behavior, and unsafe API action chaining; the approach emphasizes isolating capabilities and testing inter-app/API pathways to prevent malicious or unintended actions as the assistant orchestrates tasks across services and smart-home devices.
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