AI Security & Trust
Cover threats created by probabilistic systems capable of retrieving data and taking actions.
Why This Matters
Prompt injection, poisoned retrieval, and tool chaining are not traditional app-sec bugs. They appear because the model is an untrusted planner sitting on privileged tools.
Architecture Position
Trust Layer, wrapping every other layer: input, knowledge, agent actions, identity, and runtime isolation. See it on the architecture map.
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Core Concepts
Threat Modeling
- AI threat models
- Agent threat models
- Trust boundaries
Input Attacks
- Prompt injection
- Indirect prompt injection
- Jailbreaking
Knowledge Attacks
- RAG poisoning
- Context poisoning
- Memory poisoning
Agent Attacks
- Tool poisoning
- Goal manipulation
- Excessive agency
- Capability chaining
Identity Attacks
- Credential theft
- Confused deputy
- Privilege escalation
Data Security
- Data leakage
- Cross-tenant exposure
- Secret exposure
- Exfiltration
Runtime Security
- Sandboxing
- Execution isolation
- Capability controls
Protocol Security
- MCP security
- Agent-to-agent trust
Assurance
- Red teaming
- Security evals
- Policy enforcement
- Audit
Advanced
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Identity & Authorization
How humans, agents, and workloads establish identity and receive authority to act.
Open →Agent Runtimes & Harnesses
The runtime as the boundary between probabilistic reasoning and deterministic enterprise execution.
Open →Retrieval, RAG & Knowledge
How enterprise AI systems locate, rank, validate, and authorize knowledge.
Open →Evaluation, Observability & Reliability
How AI systems are measured, debugged, and operated safely in production.
Open →Roadmaps
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