IISF May Chapter Meeting

The Chapter Meeting & Quiz is one of the highlights of the year for many IISF members, and this year's event was once again a massive success.

Jim Simpson - representing the SANS Institute, gave an excellent presentation titled "Understand LLMs, exploring attacks and starting to build defences".

Feedback on this presentation was universally positive, with great learnings and insights, significant knowledge transfer, and a well paced and interactive engagement in which Jim's deep expertise was paired with excellent communication skills.

In a tightly knit presentation, Jim walked the IISF members & guests through Large Language Models (LLMs) and the vulnerabilities they face. Starting with LLM fundamentals—including GPT, Bayes Theorem, Supervised Fine-Tuning, and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)— Jim explained how these models are trained to communicate, be
helpful and behave ethically.

Jim then showed some common attack LLM vectors and outlined practical approaches for detecting, mitigating, and responding to threats.

There followed a lively & interactive Q & A session.

This is sure to be one presentation that IISF members will be watching back again, and recommending to their peers & colleagues, for the essential knowledge to understand LLM risks and improve their security and resilience.

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IISF Chapter Meetings are recognised by ISC2 and  ISACA  for CPE points (1 point per hour).

Short clip from presentation  

Video of the full presentation is now available to view in the IISF member's area (Meeting Downloads tab)  login to view 

The May Chapter meeting also encompasses the IISF Annual Quiz night, one of the social highlights of the year for many IISF. As is now traditional and expected, the annual IISF Quiz Night event was a great success, and a very good time was had by all. Hosted once again by Paul Conaty, with excellent support from our sponsors, the event passed off with much argument, in-fighting and displays of super-intelligence as expected from out member representatives.

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