# Prompt security
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| GENSEC04: How do you secure system and user prompts? | 
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 Prompts are crucial elements to a generative AI workload. They define how a user or application interacts with a foundation model. Engineering and testing prompts is an important process and requires time and effort to optimize. System and user prompt security is an important element of security for generative AI workloads. 

**Topics**
+ [GENSEC04-BP01 Implement a secure prompt catalog](gensec04-bp01.md)
+ [GENSEC04-BP02 Sanitize and validate user inputs to foundation models](gensec04-bp02.md)