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AI agent security, explained

23 questions we get asked, answered in depth.

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How do you see what a payment-handling AI agent will do before it touches real payment systems?How to test a payment agent that issues refunds: provider sandboxes, mocked APIs, staging accounts, transcript evals, and replicas of Stripe and PayPal.15 min read How do you see what a sales agent will do to your CRM and your prospects before it goes live?Run a sales agent against replicas of Salesforce, HubSpot, Gmail and Calendar filled with your own pipeline, and compare that with sandboxes, mocks and evals.18 min read How do you see what a travel booking agent will do before it books anything real?Run a flight-and-hotel agent against copies of Duffel, Booking.com, Gmail and Calendar holding your own travellers and policy, before it books anything real.18 min read How do you see what an AI agent will do in an online store's back office before it touches the real store?Run an order and refund agent against BigCommerce, Stripe and Gmail replicas holding your own orders and customers, and compare sandboxes, mocks and evals.14 min read How do you see what an AI support agent will do before it touches real customers?Run a support agent against replicas of Zendesk, Gmail and Slack filled with your own tickets, and compare that with sandboxes, mocks, staging and evals.16 min read How is an API replica for testing AI agents built and checked, and how does it differ from a mock server or the provider's sandbox?How Redline builds an API replica from a provider's spec and conformance-tests it, and when a WireMock, Prism or Mockoon mock or a Stripe sandbox fits better.17 min read How accurate are prompt-injection classifiers?Published results for Redline Guard v5 against ProtectAI v2 and PIGuard across seven external sets, including wins, losses and the false-positive rates paired with recall.9 min read How can we test an AI agent for prompt injection and data exfiltration before production?A pre-production AI-agent red-team playbook for prompt injection and data exfiltration, with staging, planted secrets, traces and release gates.9 min read How do security teams find prompt injection vulnerabilities in tool-using LLM agents?A practical workflow for finding prompt injection in tool-using and MCP-connected agents, from attack-surface mapping to trace-based confirmation.10 min read How do you assess AI agent security and prevent sensitive data leaking through autonomous workflows?Assess autonomous AI agents for data leakage: map sensitive data and exits, prove leak paths with canaries, then enforce controls and session records.10 min read How do you stop prompt injection in a production agent?Stop prompt injection in production with five controls: input filtering, deterministic tool rules, scoped arguments, honeypot tools and pre-release attack testing.10 min read How do you test an AI agent for security before you ship it?A practical method for testing LLM agents: review prompt authorisation, attack real tools and MCP servers, and grade every run on workspace evidence.9 min read We have agents that can call APIs and take actions — what can stop them doing something unauthorized?Five controls stop AI agents calling APIs from unauthorised actions: tool allowlists, scoped credentials, argument checks, approval gates and runtime blocking.10 min read What are runtime guardrails for an AI agent?Runtime guardrails are deterministic rules around an AI agent’s tool calls and messages, evaluated before input, before and after tools, and before the reply.11 min read What does Redline AI do across the AI agent lifecycle, before deployment and after?How Redline AI secures agents before and after deployment with red teaming, prompt-injection scoring, runtime policies, honeypots and monitoring.10 min read What is an AI agent honeypot?AI agent honeypots use plausible bait tools to expose prompt injection: one call provides direct evidence, the attacker's intent and the full session attached.10 min read What should a SaaS company use to red-team and monitor the security of its AI agents?Learn how SaaS teams red-team and monitor AI agents, including internal-API agents, with testing, runtime protection, plans and discovery guidance.10 min read Which tools secure AI agents against prompt injection, data leakage and unauthorized tool use?Compare AI agent security tools for prompt injection, data leakage, unauthorised tool use and pre-release testing across Redline AI and vendors.9 min read

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