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As organizations rush to adopt LLMs, they often overlook critical risks such as model tampering, prompt-based attacks, data leakage, hallucinations, and unsecured inference pipelines. These gaps create an alarming and largely uncharted attack surface. Without proper processes and controls, both the model and sensitive data become vulnerable, making LLM security a critical need rather than an optional consideration.\r\n\r\nAddressing LLM security requires a holistic, end-to-end strategy rather than reliance on a single tool. The first step is securing the model itself through signing and verification using Sigstore and Cosign, ensuring integrity and provenance, followed by vulnerability scanning with NVIDIA Garak. Guardrails around model interactions\u2014such as moderation filters, PII detection, hallucination checks, and pre/post prompt screening\u2014help prevent unsafe prompts, malicious injections, and harmful model outputs. 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