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Redbot Security’s AI security research hub covers LLM testing, prompt injection, RAG risk, AI agents, data leakage, model abuse, tool invocation, and the attack paths created when generative AI connects to real business systems.

As organizations deploy copilots, AI-enabled workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, and autonomous agents, the security boundary is no longer just the web application. It includes prompts, context windows, retrieval sources, APIs, tools, permissions, identity paths, cloud data, and human approval workflows.

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Research Areas

Core AI Security Topics Covered in This Hub

AI security testing requires a broader view than traditional application testing. Security teams need to understand how model behavior, user-controlled prompts, retrieved data, API-connected tools, and agent workflows can be abused together.

Testing Methodology

How AI Security Testing Differs From Traditional Application Security

Traditional application security testing usually focuses on application code, authentication, authorization, session handling, API behavior, business logic, and infrastructure exposure. AI security testing includes those concerns, but adds model-connected risks that behave differently from standard software vulnerabilities.

In AI-enabled applications, a user may influence model behavior through natural language. The model may retrieve documents, call tools, invoke APIs, summarize sensitive content, trigger workflows, or produce outputs that affect real decisions. That means AI testing must validate both the application layer and the model-connected workflow around it.

Prompt and instruction handling Testing whether user-controlled input can override instructions, bypass guardrails, expose hidden context, or manipulate downstream behavior.
Retrieval and context trust Validating whether RAG systems retrieve unauthorized data, accept poisoned content, leak sensitive documents, or overtrust retrieved context.
Tool and agent abuse Assessing whether AI agents can call tools, APIs, workflow actions, or business functions outside intended permission boundaries.
Model-connected business logic Evaluating how model output influences approvals, transactions, routing, risk decisions, customer workflows, or internal automation.
Testing Priorities

AI Security Testing Priorities for Enterprise Teams

Organizations building or adopting AI systems should test the full chain of risk: model-facing inputs, retrieval systems, identity permissions, APIs, tools, cloud data, logs, approval flows, and human-in-the-loop controls.

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Prompt Injection

Validate whether malicious instructions can override system prompts, manipulate model behavior, or expose hidden context.

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RAG and Retrieval Abuse

Test whether retrieval workflows expose unauthorized documents, poisoned data, sensitive snippets, or privileged context.

03

Agent Tool Invocation

Assess whether AI agents can trigger tools, APIs, transactions, messages, or automations beyond intended boundaries.

04

Authorization Boundaries

Verify that AI workflows respect user roles, tenant isolation, object-level permissions, and data access rules.

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Data Leakage

Review prompts, logs, chat histories, embeddings, retrieval sources, API responses, and generated outputs for sensitive data exposure.

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Workflow Manipulation

Test whether model output can influence business workflows, approvals, support actions, routing, or customer-facing decisions unsafely.

07

API and Cloud Integration Risk

Validate how AI systems interact with APIs, SaaS platforms, cloud storage, IAM, databases, and privileged services.

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Monitoring and Logging Gaps

Determine whether prompt abuse, tool misuse, retrieval anomalies, and unsafe AI behavior would be detected and investigated.

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Human Approval Controls

Review where human review, approval, escalation, and rollback controls are needed before AI actions affect production workflows.

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