together-security-basics

DevOps & Security

Together AI security basics for inference, fine-tuning, and model deployment. Use when working with Together AI's OpenAI-compatible API. Trigger: "together security basics".

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Together AI Security Basics

Overview

Together AI provides inference and fine-tuning for 100+ open-source models (Llama, Mixtral, Qwen, FLUX) via an OpenAI-compatible API. Security concerns include API key management for production inference, protecting fine-tuning datasets that may contain proprietary or sensitive data, rate limit handling to prevent cost overruns, and ensuring model outputs are not logged with sensitive prompt content. A leaked API key grants full access to inference, fine-tuning, and model management endpoints.

API Key Management

function createTogetherClient(): { apiKey: string; baseUrl: string } {
  const apiKey = process.env.TOGETHER_API_KEY;
  if (!apiKey) {
    throw new Error("Missing TOGETHER_API_KEY — store in secrets manager, never in code");
  }
  // Together keys access inference + fine-tuning — treat as production credentials
  console.log("Together AI client initialized (key suffix:", apiKey.slice(-4), ")");
  return { apiKey, baseUrl: "https://api.together.xyz/v1" };
}

Webhook Signature Verification

import crypto from "crypto";
import { Request, Response, NextFunction } from "express";

function verifyTogetherWebhook(req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction): void {
  const signature = req.headers["x-together-signature"] as string;
  const secret = process.env.TOGETHER_WEBHOOK_SECRET!;
  const expected = crypto.createHmac("sha256", secret).update(req.body).digest("hex");
  if (!signature || !crypto.timingSafeEqual(Buffer.from(signature), Buffer.from(expected))) {
    res.status(401).send("Invalid signature");
    return;
  }
  next();
}

Input Validation

import { z } from "zod";

const InferenceRequestSchema = z.object({
  model: z.string().min(1).max(200),
  messages: z.array(z.object({
    role: z.enum(["system", "user", "assistant"]),
    content: z.string().max(100_000),
  })).min(1),
  max_tokens: z.number().int().min(1).max(4096).default(512),
  temperature: z.number().min(0).max(2).default(0.7),
  stop: z.array(z.string()).max(4).optional(),
});

function validateInferenceRequest(data: unknown) {
  return InferenceRequestSchema.parse(data);
}

Data Protection

const TOGETHER_SENSITIVE_FIELDS = ["api_key", "prompt_content", "fine_tune_dataset", "model_output", "system_prompt"];

function redactTogetherLog(record: Record<string, unknown>): Record<string, unknown> {
  const redacted = { ...record };
  for (const field of TOGETHER_SENSITIVE_FIELDS) {
    if (field in redacted) redacted[field] = "[REDACTED]";
  }
  return redacted;
}

Security Checklist

API key stored in secrets manager, never in source code
Separate keys for dev/staging/prod environments
Fine-tuning datasets reviewed for sensitive content before upload
Prompt content and model outputs never logged in plaintext
Rate limit handling with exponential backoff to prevent cost overruns
API key rotation scheduled quarterly
Pre-commit hook blocks TOGETHER_API_KEY patterns
Model access scoped to required models only

Error Handling

Vulnerability	Risk	Mitigation
Leaked API key	Unauthorized inference and fine-tuning access	Secrets manager + rotation
Sensitive data in fine-tuning datasets	Proprietary data embedded in model weights	Dataset review + sanitization before upload
Prompt content in logs	Confidential queries exposed	Field-level redaction pipeline
Missing rate limit handling	Unexpected cost overruns from runaway requests	Exponential backoff + spending alerts
Unrestricted model access	Cost from premium model usage	API key scoped to approved models

Resources

Next Steps

See together-prod-checklist.