Mistral Security Basics

Overview

Security practices for Mistral AI integrations: API key management, prompt injection defense, output sanitization, content moderation with mistral-moderation-latest, request logging without secrets, and key rotation.

Prerequisites

• Mistral API key provisioned
• Understanding of OWASP LLM Top 10 risks
• Secret management infrastructure

Instructions

Step 1: API Key Management

import os

# NEVER: api_key = "sk-abc123"

# Development — env vars