Securing AI Agents with Niall Merrigan

About this episode

Richard Campbell discusses the security risks associated with AI agents and prompt injection with Niall Merrigan.

AI Agents can be powerful tools for an organization - but are they a security risk? Richard talks to Niall Merrigan about his experiences dealing with the various ways that LLMs can be attacked, starting with prompt injection. While some attacks are humorous, others can be very serious, especially in the context of agents, where the right prompt can cause an agent to use its capabilities to access or affect data outside its expected behavior. This has already led to several well-publicized CVEs, including the ServiceNow Privilege Escalation advisory. New tools have emerged to help restrict prompts and keep agents on task - but as with all things security, this is another set of tools you need to get familiar with!

People in this episode

Host: Richard Campbell

Guest: Niall Merrigan

Topics covered

• AI security
• prompt injection
• LLM attacks
• data access
• security tools

Keywords

• AI Agents
• security risk
• prompt injection
• LLMs
• CVEs
• ServiceNow
• data access

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ServiceNow, AI Agents, LLMs, CVEs

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