A Security-Oriented Lifecycle Model for Large Language Model Systems

arXiv:2608.03626 · cs.CR, cs.AI, cs.CY · Submitted 2026-08-04 · Read on arXiv

Eleftherios Batzolis, George Drosatos, Vassilis Katsouros, Konstantinos Rantos

cs.CR, cs.AI, cs.CY

Submitted: 2026-08-04

Comments: Accepted as: Batzolis, E., Drosatos, G., Katsouros, V., & Rantos, K. (2026). A Security-Oriented Lifecycle Model for Large Language Model Systems. In: Kieseberg, P., Skopik, F., Atli, B., Schrittwieser, S., & Asplund, M. (Eds.), Availability, reliability and security---ARES 2026 EU Projects Symposium workshops (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 1-18). Springer Nature Switzerland

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Provenance — 9× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Fine-Tuning — 5× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
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Conformity — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
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Feedback Loop — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Foundation Model — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Prompt Engineering — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
Reinforcement Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Computer and Communications Security — 2× in this paper
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Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
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