How We Built Security Into Comet From Day One
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TL;DR
- Comet, an AI assistant, provides capabilities for browsing websites and completing complex tasks on behalf of users.
- A multi-layered defense approach is employed to protect against prompt injection attacks.
- Trail of Bits conducted pre-launch security audits to identify and remediate vulnerabilities.
- The company published its four-layer defense architecture and launched a bug bounty program.
- BrowseSafe, a detection model and evaluation benchmark, was open-sourced to promote industry-wide security standards.
- Security for AI assistants requires ongoing threat modeling, external testing, and industry collaboration.
- Regular security assessments, a Vulnerability Disclosure Program, and bug bounty programs are maintained.