What is Lakera?

Introduction to Lakera Red

Lakera Red delivers comprehensive AI safety and security assessments to identify vulnerabilities and strengthen defenses in your GenAI applications. Our expert red team combines deep AI security expertise with proven methodologies to uncover critical risks that traditional testing often misses.

Key Features

With Lakera Red, you gain:

Business-Critical Safety and Security Testing

  • Identify risks that can damage your brand, introduce legal liability, or expose sensitive data
  • Understand your true risk exposure through assessments tailored to your specific use case and business context
  • Prioritize efforts with clear severity ratings that highlight the most impactful issues

Comprehensive Attack Surface Analysis

  • Assess both foundation model alignment failures and application-level containment issues
  • Reveal how a single vulnerability can trigger cascading failures across multiple risk domains
  • Apply holistic threat modeling across both direct and indirect attack vectors
  • Evaluate complex, multi-component agentic systems with layered threat surfaces

Expert AI Security Assessment

  • Leverage AI security expertise that goes beyond the scope of traditional testing tools and methods.
  • Receive actionable recommendations informed by real-world deployment experience
  • Get detailed findings with remediation guidance tailored to your environment

Red Team Coverage

Lakera Red evaluates your GenAI application across critical adversarial techniques:

  • Context Extraction - Attempts to extract hidden system prompts, credentials, or sensitive configurations
  • Instruction Override Attacks - Techniques to bypass intended system boundaries and trigger harmful or unintended behaviors
  • Content Injection - Embedding malicious or misleading content into otherwise valid outputs
  • Service Disruption - Forcing the system to refuse or mishandle legitimate user requests
  • Indirect Poisoning - Exploits through external data sources, RAG ingestion, or integrations

Assessments are tailored to your application’s architecture, threat model, and compliance requirements.

Types of GenAI Applications

Lakera Red can be applied to both simple and complex GenAI applications, including:

  • Conversational AI - Assistants, chatbots, and customer support agents
  • Multimodal Systems - Applications combining text, image, audio, and video capabilities
  • Agentic Workflows - Multi-step, tool-using AI agents performing dynamic planning and task execution

How It Works

Lakera Red follows an advanced, real-world adversarial testing methodology:

  1. Application Enumeration - We explore your application as intended to baseline behavior, capabilities, and limitations
  2. Targeted Attack Development - We design attacks based on your specific context, terminology, and business logic
  3. Impact Amplification Testing - We test how individual vulnerabilities can lead to compounded business risks
  4. Risk Assessment & Reporting - You receive a detailed report with severity ratings and clear, actionable remediation guidance

This targeted approach uncovers exploitable vulnerabilities that generic datasets and automated scanners often miss.

Why GenAI Red Teaming Is Different

Traditional security methods aren’t built for GenAI systems. Here’s why red teaming for AI is critical:

  1. Instruction Confusion - LLMs cannot reliably distinguish developer intent from user input, making them susceptible to prompt attacks
  2. Dual-Layered Risk - Applications inherit universal model alignment risks and context-specific containment failures
  3. Amplified Impact - A single vulnerability can affect generation, logic, data handling, and user interactions causing unpredictable harm

Continuous Security Intelligence

AI threat landscapes shift rapidly as models evolve and new attack vectors emerge. Static testing is no longer sufficient. Lakera Red stays ahead with:

  • Proprietary threat intelligence from millions of real-world attacks
  • Continuous research into new attack classes and model behaviors
  • Community insights from Gandalf, the world’s largest open-source red team
  • Custom attack techniques designed for your exact use case

Get Started

Secure your GenAI systems with expert-led, business-focused security assessments. Contact our team to discuss your goals and timeline.

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