Agents are rewriting the rules of security. Here’s what engineering needs to know.
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AI agents introduce a fundamentally different threat model compared to traditional software. Key risks include prompt-injection attacks (made harder to remediate by LLM non-determinism), privilege escalation, cascading failures in multi-agent systems, and the 'lethal trifecta' — agents that simultaneously access private data,
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