agent security
Applied AI interview questions tagged agent security, across every topic.
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Concepts behind "agent security"
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Indirect Prompt Injection and the Lethal TrifectaIndirect prompt injection plants attacker instructions inside content an agent retrieves or reads (a web page, a PDF, a support ticket) so a benign user triggers an attack. The lethal trifecta is the combination that turns this into real damage: access to private data, exposure to untrusted content, and a channel to send data out. Applied AI interviews probe it because anyone building RAG or tool-using agents has to reason about blast radius, not just clever filters.🛡️ AI Security, Privacy & GovernanceSign in
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Agent Security: Tool Poisoning, Memory Poisoning, ContainmentAgent security covers threats that only exist once an LLM can call tools and act on their results: malicious tool or MCP responses, poisoned long-term memory, privilege escalation through tool misuse, and goal hijacking. The defense is runtime containment, least-privilege tools, kill-switches, and blast-radius limits, not better prompting. Applied AI interviews probe it because anyone shipping agents has to reason about what happens when an untrusted string steers a system that can spend money or delete data.🛡️ AI Security, Privacy & GovernanceSign in