Giving an AI agent access to tools, data, and actions is like hiring an employee who never sleeps, works incredibly fast – and will do something catastrophic if a stranger phrases a request the right way. Before you trust an agent in production, someone needs to actively try to make it misbehave.
That’s AI red-teaming, and it’s quickly becoming a release requirement, not a nice-to-have.
What can go wrong with an AI agent
- Prompt injection – hidden instructions in a document or webpage hijack the agent.
- Jailbreaks – clever phrasing bypasses your safety rules.
- Data leakage – the agent reveals secrets, PII, or other users’ data.
- Tool abuse – the agent is tricked into sending money, deleting records, or calling APIs it shouldn’t.
- Unauthorized actions – reasoning failures that lead to real-world consequences.
Map these to the OWASP LLM Top 10 and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and you have the start of a real test plan.
Why automated tools aren’t enough
Scanners and eval harnesses catch the obvious cases. But the dangerous exploits are creative, multi-turn, and context-specific – exactly the kind of thing humans find. The strongest programs combine automated tooling with human-in-the-loop red-teamers who think like attackers and validate every finding.
What a managed red-team engagement delivers
- Adversarial testing across prompt injection, jailbreaks, data exfiltration, and tool abuse.
- Findings mapped to OWASP LLM / NIST AI RMF with severity grading.
- A reproducible eval report your team and auditors can act on.
- Optional continuous testing in CI/CD as your agent evolves.
How AB7 approaches it
AB7 offers AI agent evaluation and red-teaming as a managed service – adversarial prompt-injection, jailbreak, data-leakage, and tool-abuse testing mapped to OWASP LLM Top 10 and NIST AI RMF, with expert reviewers validating every automated finding. It draws on AB7’s MSSP security heritage and its AI-data expertise at once – the rare combination this work actually requires.
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Talk to AB7 about AI agent red-teaming
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