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Threat Modeling LLMs: Adam’s talk at Black Hat USA

Kymberlee Price, Shostack + Associates COO

PHANTOM-B is a practical tool built for threat modeling AI systems a robot viewing symbols on a whiteboard

Adam presents Threat Modeling LLMs: The PHANTOM-B Model on Wednesday morning at 11:05am in Oceanside C, Level 2.

The whitepaper is here, you can download the slides here and check back here later this week for a recap of the talk!

Image by midjourney: "A photograph of a robot standing at a whiteboard covered in dense academic diagrams and papers, confidently crossing most of it out and replacing it with eight simple glowing symbols in bright marker. The robot has a slight resemblance to a protocol droid — tall, polished, vaguely C-3PO in posture but clearly its own design. The lighting is cinematic and slightly dramatic, with a warm amber glow from one side suggesting a distant star or setting sun through a high window. The overall mood is purposeful and a little heroic, like a briefing before a critical mission." Modified by Gemini: "Keep everything else the same but add a black cowboy hat to the droid"